Goodville Mutual Casualty Company Hiring for Product Owner (New Holland, PA or Napoleon, OH) Full Time

Nature of Job

Develop and maintain a vision for the product and communicate the vision to the scrum team; author user stories and specs that deliver an outstanding user experience and maintain a well-managed user story backlog and delivery process to maximize team velocity; collaborate with all key stakeholders to ensure business, quality and functional goals are met with each product release.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure maximum business value is consistently reflected in a well maintained product backlog.
• Responsible for understanding both the technical and business side of the product release.
• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation.
• Provide the development team with consistent product vision and actionable sprint goals.
• Collaborate with Director of Product Development to understand business vision; ensure that the development team understands the vision for the product and is developing great features for our partners.
• Lead information gathering sessions and focus groups with departments, stakeholders and end users and work to ensure that all stakeholders are aligned at each stage of the development lifecycle.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
• Act as the stakeholder proxy for the development team and as an ambassador for the product.
• Assist in product research and business analysis as needed.
• Develop and present concise user stories to the development team.
• Work with the Scrum Master and development team to achieve consistent sustainable pace of delivery.
• Organize and participate in Agile planning and release meetings.
• Attend and actively participate in relevant Scrum ceremonies.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Director of Product Development.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education preferred.
• Experience in or ability to learn Property and Casualty insurance principles, insurance applications and agency-company interface.
• Proven ability to understand business and IT issues and communicate priorities.
• Experience in or ability to learn Agile and Scrum principles.
• Experience with project tracking software such as JIRA.
• Proficiency in coordinating interdepartmental and cross-functional projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to build relationships and interact professionally with individuals at all levels internally and externally.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Proven ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment.
• Commitment to company values and customer service.
• Ability to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

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