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Job Summary:
Orion180 is a company dedicated to delivering an exceptional insurance experience through innovative technology and customer service. They are seeking a Product Owner to manage the requirements lifecycle, translate business needs into user stories, and ensure high-quality execution within their Innovation & Technology team.
Responsibilities:
• Requirements Gathering: Engage with business stakeholders to capture detailed requirements. Understand the business context, compliance implications, and user impact of every request.
• Story Writing: Translate business requirements into clear, actionable user stories with specific, testable acceptance criteria. Make sure stories include the "what" and "why" so technical teams can determine the "how."
• Backlog Management: Maintain and prioritize the team backlog in Azure DevOps. Make sure stories are groomed, well-defined, and sequenced by business value.
• Technical Collaboration: Partner with Tech Leads during story review to confirm technical completeness. If the Tech Lead identifies architecture implications, flag the story for architecture review.
• Acceptance & Validation: Accept completed work against acceptance criteria (Level 1 validation). For bug fixes that impacted stakeholders, follow up post-deployment for stakeholder confirmation (Level 2). For new external-facing features, compliance changes, and financial calculations, conduct formal UAT with stakeholders (Level 3).
• Compliance Tracking: For compliance-flagged work, confirm filing dates, effective dates, and regulatory deadlines. Build timelines backward from hard deadlines and track throughout the delivery cycle.
• Stakeholder Communication: Provide progress updates, sprint demos, and release communications to business stakeholders. Maintain transparency on delivery status and timeline changes.
• Continuous Improvement: Pursue Product Owner certification if not already held. Attend training to sharpen requirements gathering, story writing, and backlog management skills.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent insurance industry or software product experience.
• Minimum 5+ years in Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar roles for Sr Product Owner.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder requirements across regulatory and technical domains for Sr Product Owner.
• Serves as the final quality gate for all stories entering sprints (Definition of Ready authority) for Sr Product Owner.
• Mentors and supports Product Owners on story quality, stakeholder engagement, and domain expertise for Sr Product Owner.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-Value Stream dependencies, drive release readiness, and support hybrid delivery documentation as needed for Sr Product Owner.
• Minimum 2+ years in Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar roles for Product Owner.
• Strong story writing and backlog management skills for Product Owner.
• Works under the Sr PO's guidance on prioritization and stakeholder management for Product Owner.
• Growing into full ownership of the requirements lifecycle for Product Owner.
• Strong collaboration within the Value Stream and consistent improvement in story quality, acceptance criteria clarity, project requirement details, and stakeholder communication for Product Owner.
• Strong ability to dig into business processes, ask the right questions, and produce precise requirements.
• Excellent written documentation skills. Ability to produce clear, detailed user stories and business requirements documents.
• Proven ability to engage stakeholders, clarify priorities, and gain alignment across business and technical teams.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or similar agile tools for backlog management.
• Familiarity with insurance operations, products, or technology is strongly preferred.
• Comfortable learning new systems, APIs, and data flows to become the domain expert for your stream.
Preferred:
• Insurance Knowledge: Familiarity with insurance operations, products, or technology is strongly preferred.
• CSPO, PSPO, or SAFe Product Owner certification preferred.
Company:
At Orion180, we are dedicated to empowering insurance agents with innovative home insurance solutions that enhance their offerings and strengthen client relationships. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Melbourne, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.