Senior Product Owner

American Fidelity • Oklahoma City, OK

2d

About The Position

Proactive leader that drives the product vision and strategy by maintaining a close relationship to the business leaders and customers, providing constant feedback to the team to keep them on track with the roadmap. Accountable for the successful value identification and delivery of product features they are responsible for. They take a proactive approach through knowledge of the market, competition, current industry and tech trends to define innovative functional solutions to optimize product value. They maintain a 5+ year roadmap that aligns with the organization's goals. This is a highly collaborative and visible role that requires both technical fluency and strong business acumen. The ideal candidate thrives in Agile environments, can navigate software systems, and brings strong communication and organizational skills to manage complexity across teams. American Fidelity specializes in the education, public sector, automotive and healthcare industries with products like group and individual life, health and annuity services as well as other financial security products and services. We’re focused on offering a different opinion to our Customers – making things easier for them by providing benefits administration and education. For our policyholders, we help provide financial security through our benefit offerings, which provide coverage for some of life’s worst events – cancer, accidents, critical illnesses, death and more – and for some of life’s best – childbirth, retirement and more. Learn more about us!

Requirements

• Must currently reside in the OKC metro area
• Strong interpersonal skills including negotiation and conflict management
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills including thinking creatively, systematically and visually in order to effectively analyze issues and describe solutions.
• Strong aptitude for learning new systems and understanding capabilities and configuration
• Strong communication verbally, nonverbally and in written form to ensure clear understanding of concepts, needs and solutions, particularly in difficult or stressful situations.
• Strong ability to elicit, analyze, communicate, verify, and validate requirements.
• Strong facilitation of communication associated with business problems and opportunities.
• Strong understanding of functional design methods and implementation of both technical and non-technical solutions.
• Strong requirements specifications writing skills in both technical and user-friendly language.
• Strong business process mapping skills
• Experienced with System Development Life Cycles
• Strong teaching skills to educate colleagues on new solutions to ensure successful change.
• Strong analysis of data relationships, system integration considerations and development platforms
• Strong listening skills, specifically in a team environment.
• Advanced knowledge of technology solutions as well as organizational structure and strategic direction.
• Advanced knowledge in execution and understanding of Business Analysis best practices as defined in the most recent version of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge.
• Advanced knowledge of the various project management methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of technology solutions as well as organizational structure and strategic direction.
• Self motivated and works well with little to no supervision

Responsibilities

• Maintaining a close relationship to the business leaders and customers
• Providing constant feedback to the team to keep them on track with the roadmap
• Accountable for the successful value identification and delivery of product features they are responsible for
• Maintaining a 5+ year roadmap that aligns with the organization's goals

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed