Sr. Product Owner

Berkley•Overland Park, KS

About The Position

The Senior Product Owner leads large, complex product domains and strategic initiatives with significant business impact. The role drives cross-functional alignment, influences decision-making, and ensures business investments generate measurable outcomes. It serves as a recognized expert within its domain and mentors less experienced product team members. Intrepid Direct Insurance is a rapidly growing direct-to-consumer property and casualty insurance company and a member of W. R. Berkley Corporation. The company applies data and technology to serve its target customers and aims to improve outcomes for customers, shareholders, and team members. This position works with a collaborative team of professionals.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Insurance, Finance, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Typically seven or more years of experience in product management, business analysis, process improvement, technology delivery, operational leadership, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and significant organizational impact.
Strong understanding of property and casualty insurance operations, products, and business processes, typically gained through five or more years of insurance industry experience.
Ability to apply industry knowledge to guide product strategy, prioritize initiatives, assess business impacts, and deliver measurable outcomes in a regulated environment.
Ability to manage products, capabilities, or initiatives spanning multiple business functions while balancing enterprise priorities, dependencies, risks, and long-term business outcomes.
Experience defining product vision, developing roadmaps, managing product backlogs, and translating business objectives into actionable product requirements.
Ability to lead product discovery efforts, evaluate business opportunities, analyze tradeoffs, and make data-informed recommendations.
Experience partnering with technology teams and business stakeholders to deliver solutions that improve operational effectiveness, customer experience, business performance, or regulatory compliance.
Ability to influence decision-making and build alignment across business and technology leaders without direct authority.
Skills in product vision and strategy; product road mapping; product backlog management; product discovery; requirements facilitation; cross-functional leadership; stakeholder alignment; business and operational analysis; data-informed decision-making; strategic thinking; problem-solving; process improvement; dependency and risk management; facilitation; written and verbal communication; coaching and mentoring; and Agile and Scrum product delivery.

Nice To Haves

Experience mentoring or coaching Product Owners, Business Analysts, or other team members.
Experience working within Agile, Scrum, or other iterative delivery frameworks.
Professional certification such as Certified Scrum Product Owner, Professional Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, or a similar certification.

Responsibilities

Own major value streams, business domains, or strategic initiatives spanning multiple departments, systems, or operational functions.
Lead discovery, requirements facilitation, and solution development for complex business challenges, identifying root causes rather than addressing only stated requests.
Identify, sequence, and communicate dependencies across teams, systems, value streams, and stakeholder groups.
Evaluate proposed solutions in the context of business objectives, operational impacts, process controls, and downstream dependencies.
Develop or support investment framing for larger initiatives, including expected value, risk, effort, operational impact, dependencies, and success measures.
Define success measures and analyze business performance, trends, and operational data to guide product decisions and identify improvement opportunities.
Partner with department leaders to align product investments with organizational goals and maintain alignment across stakeholder groups.
Simplify complex business needs and cross-functional dependencies into clear, actionable product direction and requirements.
Coach Product Owners and Associate Product Owners by reviewing roadmap logic, backlog structure, story quality, acceptance criteria, stakeholder communications, and delivery readiness.
Drive adoption of product management best practices and continually improve product team capability and maturity.