Connectivity Product Owner

Aviva; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the insurance sector is seeking a Connectivity Product Owner to lead integrations within their evolving personal insurance business. This role focuses on cross-functional leadership, ensuring strategic partnerships, and delivering stakeholder value through innovative solutions that enhance broker connectivity. Successful candidates will possess strong leadership, insurance industry experience, and a collaborative mindset in a non-hierarchical environment.

Benefits

Annual bonus eligibility

Retirement savings plan

Health benefits

Competitive vacation package

Professional development support

Corporate wellness programs

Qualifications

• 5-10 years personal insurance industry experience required.
• 3+ years leadership experience.
• Connectivity experience required.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the backlog for high-value work.
• Guide and contribute to the team output from inception to production.
• Manage business relationships with vendors for project delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Communication

Business acumen

Agile principles

Education

Undergraduate degree

CIP or FCIP designation

Job description

Individually we are people, but together we are Aviva. Individually these are just words, but together they are our Values – Care, Commitment, Community, and Confidence.

At Aviva, we are embarking on an exciting journey to transform our Personal Insurance broker business with our move to Guidewire. We are looking for passionate people with an innovative approach that want to deliver the best outcomes for our customer and brokers. If you’re ready to join us on this journey, we want to hear from you!

As the Connectivity Product Owner (PO), you will lead a cross-functional pod to build integrations between Guidewire, our Broker and MGA systems. This individual will own end-to-end decisions and outcomes. The PO is responsible for leading dependencies with other workstream functions while identifying, building, and managing strategic partnerships across the different teams. They will work closely with their pod and key collaborators to ensure business value and user feedback is translated into features to be delivered. The PO will be accountable for delivering objectives and key results related to their products.

The PO must have excellent leadership skills and believe in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. Finally, the PO should be comfortable with full ownership and accountability as they focus on delivering exceptional broker and business results.

What you'll do:

• Own, maintain the backlog and prioritize the day-to-day work based on features that deliver high value and maximum automation for their workstream

• Set ambitious, clear product vision; communicate it effectively to key partners and team

• Guide and contribute to the end-to-end team output from inception to production

• Collaborate with partners to ensure Broker Connectivity vision aligns with overall program strategy

• Responsible for workstream objectives and key results, and regular tracking/communication to partners

• Align with other POs to ensure interfaces to other Products and common objectives and key results are maintained

• Understand the financial impact of team and Product related decisions

• Define and implement metrics to monitor solutions once in production

• Work closely with design to integrate usability studies, testing and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction

Connectivity:

• Prioritize connectivity scope to ensure the highest value epics are delivered to drive ease of doing business for Brokers

• Manage business relationship with vendors for the project to ensure vendor delivery meets business need

• Ensure build factors in future speed to market and APIs are built with no to low effort for BAU change

What you'll bring:

• Undergraduate degree

• CIP or FCIP designation preferred

• 5-10 years personal insurance industry experience

• 3+ years leadership experience

• Solid knowledge of P&C insurance and Home & auto insurance products

• Strong business acumen and proven ability to collaborate with key collaborators at all levels of the organization

• Familiarity with tech systems / IT, able to engage in discussion with each tech team to understand risks

• Familiarity with agile principles from experience as a Product Owner or a similar position

• Connectivity experience required

• Strong communication & leadership skills, comfortable speaking with partners and influencing others

• Ability to lead, prioritize work, and inspire a cross-functional team to achieve the joint mission

• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to drive a solution and monitor its progress

• Ability to build, own and articulate end-to-end conversion strategy; define scope and roadmap from ideation to release

• Ability to clearly express the connections between larger business goals & specific backlog items for the team

• Ability to influence decision-makers and manage partners to achieve the Product mission

• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust throughout the team

• Execution-focused, player/coach, and not afraid to "roll up their sleeves" & get out of their comfort zone to learn – inspires their team to do the same

What you’ll get:

• Compelling rewards package including base compensation, eligibility for annual bonus, retirement savings, share plan, health benefits, personal wellness, and volunteer opportunities.

• Outstanding Career Development opportunities.

• We’ll support your professional development education.

• Competitive vacation package with the option to purchase 5 extra days off per year

• Employee driven programs focused on gender, LGBTQ+, origins, diversity and inclusion

• Corporate wellness programs to support our employees’ physical and mental health

• Hybrid flexible work model

Please note that we may use AI tools to help us through the recruitment process. This is a new position which has been posted both internally & externally.

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