Product Owner

• Be a highly motivated team player working in an agile culture, within a specified Agile Frame work of Scrum, and maintain a willingness for continuously improving your agile mind-set. 

• Understand the customer needs, insight and business strategy to define and prioritize the product vision and roadmap.  

• Collaborate with business stakeholders & development squads to define the goal and scope of product iterations. 

• Work with the Systems Analyst (SA) to maximize the value of the development squad's work by creating a shared understanding of the product vision/goal. 

• Own new features, understand their business value, work with the SA to capture functional and performance requirements and provide visibility into the value within the product. 

• Be responsible for stakeholder management across multiple disciplines in the organisation from a product roadmap perspective. 

• Act as the primary reference point around the product for the development squads by providing the necessary clarity when (e.g. product documentation, UI/UX behaviour, etc). 

• Work in a partnership with the Systems Analyst to maintain the Product Backlog ensuring that Epics and User Stories are continuously prioritized and aligned to the Product Roadmap, MVP and budget. 

• Ensure that business requirements contain all necessary items to be handed over to the development teams (opportunity canvas, business scenarios, user stories, acceptance criteria…) 

• Lead or participate in regular showcase of feature enhancements to business stakeholders with support from the squad. 

• Support the business by helping them build strong relationships with new and existing clients through enhancement of their product knowledge. 

• Verify the product deliverable meets the Acceptance Criteria and receive sign-off from the business stakeholders that work is accepted. 

What you need to be/ have: 

• Highly motivated individual who is intellectually curious and a rapid learner that must be able to work in a 100% remote or hybrid office setting.   

• Ability to work in a highly complex environment with significant number of interdependencies and conflicting priorities. 

• A positive attitude and willingness to create simple, elegant solutions and the ability and desire to develop close relationships with internal and external stakeholders. 

• Ability to take responsibility for and make decisions regarding own work methods requiring minimal direction. 

• Ability to function effectively in a team environment and develop good working relationships with colleagues regardless of boundaries. 

• Ability to adapt your communication style depending on the audience, objectives and channels being used. 

• Demonstrable quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills. 

• Be an effective communicator for both technical and business-oriented audiences. 

• Serve as product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions. 

• Be fluent in Spanish. 

• Excellent Microsoft Office products knowledge, including Visio and Excel. 

• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps or similar task management tools. 

What makes you stand out? 

• 5+ years experience as a Product Owner or Product Analyst working as part of an agile team. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability and desire to develop close relationships with clients / internal teams and articulate product vision. 

• In-depth understanding of Agile Principles and a Working knowledge of Agile Framework. Experience with Scrum methodology 

• Experience of working within the Insurance Industry. 

• Experience with working in a highly complex global environment. 

• Understanding of principles of the change management and system adoption. 

• Working with key stakeholders to drive business result. 

• Strong planning and organisational skills. 

• Evidence based decision-making skills. 

• Be willing to embrace change from either internal or external influences.