Product Owner - Roadmap & Strategy

Role & Responsibilities: - Collaborate with stakeholders (Domain Lead(Ops, IT, Data leads)) to understand the business needs and shape the vision and roadmap for data-driven initiatives to alignment with strategic priorities. - Contributes to the development of the program vision. Communicates product and portfolio vision to their team. - Work with data scientists, engineers, and designers to ensure that products get built efficiently, meet user needs, and provide actionable insights. - Analyze data sources, data technologies and vendors providing data services to leverage in the data product roadmap development; Create necessary ER diagrams, data models, PRD/BRD to convey requirements - Accountable for developing and achieving product level KPIs. - Manages product(s) (data products) with a moderate degree of strategy, scope, and complexity. - Ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and security by establishing data governance frameworks, defining data quality standards, and implement data management best practices to maintain high data integrity. - Collaborates with technology and business leadership to align system/application integrations inline with business goals, priorities. - Resolves open issues/questions quickly and efficiently. - Owns and maintains the product backlog and is accountable for its contents and prioritization. - Accountable for clear, actionable user stories. - Sets priorities and actively participates in squad/team quarterly planning. - Collaborates with more senior Product Owners to set priorities for program quarterly planning. - Sets expectations with stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities. - Participates in team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies. - Works daily with the agile working group, clarifying business requirements, removing roadblocks, constantly communicating, and supporting alignment around product strategy. - Monitors and maintains the product health, supporting long-term product viability and efficiency, and balancing long and short term and costs with- desired outcomes. - Analyzes and reports on feasibility, cost of delay ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential changes to the product. - Understands regulatory, compliance, and other industry constraints on the product and prioritizes accordingly. - Negotiates with internal and external teams to ensure priorities are aligned across squads/teams both within and outside the portfolio. Candidate Profile : - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field; Master's degree preferred. - Considerable relevant industry or functional experience in insurance. - Experience with Commercial & Speciality Insurance products.(Pricing experience preferred) - Good understanding of data technologies, such as databases, data warehouses, and data lakes - Knowledge of HXRenew and/or Verisk Rulebook preferred. - Managing stakeholders requirements, translating and working with Tech teams. - Proven experience (5 years) as a Data Product Owner, Data Product Manager, or similar role in data or software development or technology industry. - Familiar with programming languages, such as Python/R/SQL/SAS or cloud technologies like AWS, Azure or other simial paltforms to allow them to work with data scientists and developers to build and deploy data products. - Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, and experience working in Agile environments. - Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to prioritize competing demands effectively. - Exceptional communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across team. - Strong Presentation and leadership skills - Experience with product management tools such as JIRA, Trello, or Asana, and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. - Familiarity with UX/UI design principles, software development lifecycle (SDLC), and software engineering concepts is a plus. - Agile practitioner capabilities and experience working with or in Agile teams - Strong team-work, co-ordination, organization and planning skills - Ability to capture complex requirements in a prioritized backlog (ref:hirist.tech)

Location: delhi, IN

Posted Date: 2/23/2025