Product Owner

Novidea is an insurance technology company solving the toughest challenges faced by insurance distribution businesses. Our innovative, data-driven insurance software platform allows to manage the entire policy lifecycle across all lines of business, using data to inform every business decision, cross-sell and up-sell. Novidea delivers a 360-degree business view, and a powerful competitive advantage.

We are looking for an experienced Product Owner who is passionate about building products that customers love!

What' the job:

As an essential member of the product team, you will give guidance to an Agile team that designs, develops, and maintains Cross-Regional and Cross-Functional applications for insurance brokers and agents around the world.

You will work to design, build, launch and optimize an end-to-end insurance management system that delivers both customer requirements and the company’s vision and strategy.

Key responsibilities:

• Create and refine user stories in collaboration with the product and development teams, converting business requirements into technical specifications, providing business scenarios with real-life examples
• User journeys with attention to UX support management on different aspects of the product, from the roadmap and releases, through to requirements and documentation
• Through your technical or market knowledge, use an evidence-based approach to consider current and future product features
• Use feedback from the product team, internal stakeholders, and customers to feed functional requirements to the development team
• Communicate the goals of the feature to the development, quality assurance teams, and stakeholders using commonly used storyboards and other tools 
• Support Product Manager in management of roadmap and sprint content 

What you have:

Someone who possesses a blend of technical and business abilities, as a Product Owner, you must be able to effectively capture, challenge and ultimately translate business needs into clear and concise requirements for the development teams to build from.

• Experience working as a Product Owner/Analyst, 2-5 years
• Experience working within software development, working directly with development teams
• Experience researching and writing product requirements (user stories)
• Strong business understanding
• Ability to understand the system’s data model and interrogate data
• Experience conducting and facilitating sessions with different stakeholders
• Great communication skills 
• Excellent written and verbal English skills
• Organizational abilities to skillfully track multiple work streams and shift priorities
• Attention to details
• Personality: Passionate, a team player, willing to travel

Bonus points:

• Have worked remotely with development teams
• UI or UX experience - providing a fully optimized solution to an end customer
• Insurance knowledge
• Working with a Salesforce platform