Product Owner

At Insurwave, we are looking for remarkable people who thrive on making an exceptional contribution. We now have an exciting opportunity for a Product Owner to play a key role in our Product team. If making a difference gets you out of bed in the morning, then this could be the perfect opportunity and the start of something incredible!

What will you be doing?

As a Product Owner you will help to deliver feature expansions of our browser-based platform. Reporting to the Product Manager, you will be responsible for helping shape the future direction of our company, using your skills to help identify and deliver solutions to solve the problems of our commercial insurance clients. You will work closely with a team of software engineers, but also work alongside stakeholders from across the business and external organisations.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for innovation and end-to-end product design and delivery in a fast-paced environment.
• Work with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders, including Client Success, Marketing, UX/UI, and Engineering.
• Groom backlog and join with Product Manager to have solution that balances between Business Needs & Development effort.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure timely implementation with quality and testing. Provide detailed analysis, tracking, and reporting of production issues.
• Experience in software product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology.
• Have experience working with corporate clients, spend time understanding their needs, gathering feedback, implement product requirements and showcase product delivery.
• Work in an Agile environment and continuously review business needs, refine priorities, define milestones and deliverables, and call out opportunities and risks.
• Partner with stakeholders and customers across the business to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritisation.
• Translate requests and product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
• Maintain clear communication with stakeholders on issue status and resolution timelines.
• Prioritise and maintain a sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders.

What skills and experience will I need to bring with me?

You’ll need to be able to demonstrate the core skills for the role, although more importantly if you don’t quite have all the skills, you have a passion and willingness for learning. Here’s what the teams will be looking for:

• Experience working in a B2B environment, ideally within insurance.
• Experience with Agile Project delivery methods, and associated software tools including Confluence and Jira.
• Experience with Product that is data driven and heavy in calculation logics.
• Experience in working with a large dataset, and having experience working with data extraction processes is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills.

To be a successful Insurwaver, your attitude is as important. Insurwavers like to Think Big, building with ambition, they put Client’s experience first and are incredible Team Players, who have each other's back. These are our Values which drive our Culture, personified by our Leadership Team and is key to what we are looking for in you.

Interview steps

• Preliminary phone call with the Talent Team (no video required).
• First video interview with our People Experience Manager.
• Final interview with the hiring panel.
• Don’t be alarmed if there are other stages in the process, such as technical code tests, it’s all part of the plan for some of our roles.

What is Insurwave?

Insurwave is a disruptive Insurtech company leveraging the power of AI to consolidate and visualise data, helping clients to understand risk and make smarter risk transfer and insurance decisions. Our platform offers an integrated insurance management experience, from ai-driven data ingestion through to collecting and consolidating risk data providing insight on business exposure changes in real-time.

What’s in it for me?

You’ll be part of a supportive team, working in a Values led culture, doing the exciting work that you thrive on, making a real difference and having the impact you know you can have. As well as incredible job satisfaction, you’ll also get:

• Lots of Holidays! 25 days annual leave | 8 Bank Holidays.
• More than a competitive salary: Private Health Care - Critical Illness Insurance - Life Insurance - 5% pension plan matching - cycle to work scheme - weekly online Yoga sessions.
• Great work-life balance - Flexible working options.
• A commitment to learning & development opportunities to support you in realising your potential.

Altogether this makes Insurwave a fabulous place to work with incredible, friendly and supportive people!