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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 act as a subject-matter expert, translating business requirements into user stories and managing the product backlog, while collaborating with stakeholders and technical teams to ensure high-quality project execution.
Responsibilities:
• Engage with business stakeholders to capture detailed requirements. Understand the business context, compliance implications, and user impact of every request.
• 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.'
• Maintain and prioritize the team backlog in Azure DevOps. Make sure stories are groomed, well-defined, and sequenced by business value.
• Partner with Tech Leads during story review to confirm technical completeness. If the Tech Lead identifies architecture implications, flag the story for architecture review.
• 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).
• For compliance-flagged work, confirm filing dates, effective dates, and regulatory deadlines. Build timelines backward from hard deadlines and track throughout the delivery cycle.
• Provide progress updates, sprint demos, and release communications to business stakeholders. Maintain transparency on delivery status and timeline changes.
• 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.
• 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.
• Comfortable learning new systems, APIs, and data flows to become the domain expert for your stream.
• 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. Strong collaboration within the Value Stream and consistent improvement in story quality, acceptance criteria clarity, project requirement details, and stakeholder communication for Product Owner.
Preferred:
• 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.