Sr. Product Owner
About The Position
The insurance industry runs on Vertafore. We equip agencies, MGAs, and carriers with the core digital systems, specialized AI, and data-driven foundation to eliminate distribution drag across the insurance lifecycle, spanning sales, servicing, and back-office operations. Underpinned by unmatched speed and performance power, we are the trusted backbone that’s taking the insurance industry from friction to flow with Distribution Velocity – speed, performance, and trust - to drive growth at scale. With over 95% of the top agencies and insurers and 50% of industry compliance transactions running through Vertafore, we lead at the intersection of innovation and trust, giving insurance professionals the confidence to transform and win in the AI era. Our reach is global, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.
Requirements
- Translate business problems and requirements into user stories
- Own and prioritize backlog to align with product strategy, business goals, and achieve project goals and objectives
- Provide clarity in complex projects
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders
- Work closely with Product Managers to understand roadmap goals/strategy
- Distill high-level requirements into user stories
- Prioritize the development backlog
- Work with Product Managers to plan and sequence work
- Work closely with QA to ensure problems are solved and requirements are met
Responsibilities
- Translate business problems and requirements into prioritized backlog of user stories for the development teams to implement
- Facilitate and lead cross-functional teams, primarily internal and, at times external, to get the clarity needed to document user stories to appropriate level of detail
- Translate project goals/objectives/strategy to actionable work, prioritizing and sequencing the development work to achieve project goals and timelines
- Partner with QA to define acceptance criteria and verify acceptance criteria are met
- Research and respond to questions from designers, developers, and QA
- When needed, work directly with customers, and conduct market research to clarify requirements and ensure solution will deliver value to end users
- Clarify user stories to the appropriate level of detail where needed
- Collaborate with product management, development, and user experience design staff to lead on time, successful scope definition and feature deployment
- When applicable, lead other product owners to deliver on overall product roadmap
- Partner with product manager to consolidate market requirements, align to corporate objectives, and prioritize what is essential to define market strategy
- Partner with product manger to define product vision and roadmap
- Other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
