Product Owner / Sr. Product Owner

Orion180•Irving, TX

7h•Onsite

About The Position

We are actively seeking a Product Owner to join our growing Innovation & Technology team. In this role, you will be the subject-matter expert for a specific value stream, owning the translation of business requirements into well-defined user stories that development teams can execute. You will work closely with business stakeholders to capture requirements, with Tech Leads to make sure technical completeness, and with delivery pods to drive high-quality execution. The Product Owner is accountable for backlog clarity, ordering, acceptance and project quality. Delivery leads and project managers support delivery execution, cross-team coordination, and timeline management for cross-organization work. This role reports to the Value Stream Owner. You will work in a self-contained Value Stream pod that includes assigned development and QA resources, a Delivery Lead, Product Owner, and Value Stream Owner. Some cross-organization initiatives may also include support from a shared Project Manager for coordination across teams. The Value Stream primarily uses Scrum practices with a hybrid delivery approach when needed.

Requirements

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.
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.
Sr Product Owner: Minimum 5+ years in Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar roles.
Sr Product Owner: Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder requirements across regulatory and technical domains.
Sr Product Owner: Serves as the final quality gate for all stories entering sprints (Definition of Ready authority).
Sr Product Owner: Mentors and supports Product Owners on story quality, stakeholder engagement, and domain expertise.
Sr Product Owner: Demonstrated ability to manage cross-Value Stream dependencies, drive release readiness, and support hybrid delivery documentation as needed.
Product Owner: Minimum 2+ years in Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar roles.
Product Owner: Strong story writing and backlog management skills.
Product Owner: Works under the Sr PO's guidance on prioritization and stakeholder management.
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.

Nice To Haves

CSPO, PSPO, or SAFe Product Owner certification preferred.

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.