Senior Product Owner

CFC; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in insurance seeks a Senior Product Owner to enhance their technology platform. This role demands strong leadership to manage product vision and collaborate with diverse teams to maximize business value. Join a dynamic team and contribute to innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Employee wellness programs

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively.
• Experience in stakeholder management and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision and roadmap based on stakeholder needs.
• Collaborate with development teams to refine epics and features.
• Participate in daily scrums and sprint planning.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

Experience in software development lifecycle

Familiarity with Agile methodologies

Job description

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Senior Product Owner

You will be part of the technology team, the engine room of the business, providing bespoke systems that give CFC its competitive advantage in this dynamic marketplace. You will be exposed to a range of different business projects and opportunities that will make a material impact on profitability and efficiency in the business. Your role will focus on our Technology Platform as a product, with particular focus on the elements that make up our internal development platform. You will approach this from a business perspective to define solutions in features, epics and stories. Prioritisation of work and management of tech focused stakeholders will also be key parts of the role.

You will help with the elaboration of epics, themes and features into user stories that are granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint. You will also break down epics into testable stories; collaborating directly with the development/QA teams and will participate in daily scrums, sprint planning meetings and sprint reviews and retrospectives.

Ideally the successful candidate will have previous experience of working in a dynamic company with leading edge development enabling technology and now be looking to take the next step in their career in an exciting, fast growing business.

Department: DevOps & Infrastructure | Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time | Location: London | Workplace type: Hybrid | Reporting To: Paul Wilford

About the role

As one of our lead product owners, you’ll be responsible for contributing towards the product vision and roadmap. You will gather information from our internal development teams, draw in perspectives on areas like security and compliance and defining improvements to processes, ensuring that solutions are designed for optimal business performance whilst being developed efficiently and also maintaining technical quality.

As a Senior Product Owner you will also be responsible for the following:

• Understanding the “why” of each epic and feature, focusing on solving our technology problems while always seeing the bigger picture in terms of strategy and value
• Leading stakeholder meetings to gather and agree requirements
• Conducting robust analysis and documentation according to defined deadlines and quality requirements
• Being a true product owner, working with the team to develop, refine and prioritize epics, features and user stories with a clear focus on maximizing business value.
• Owning and maintaining the development team backlogs, and taking part in daily stand ups, planning, retrospectives and demos
• Working as part of the development team to successfully deliver epics and features based on agreed metrics and KPIs
• Working closely with the software delivery teams throughout the entire development process to ensure they are staying on track and getting the support they need

About you

You will be someone with a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and modern software development processes. With the ability to get consensus on priority across a wide range of stakeholders and experience with:

• Strong stakeholder management skills to ensure everyone is aware of issues, priorities and the status of progress
• Business/systems analysis, writing specifications (business scenarios, functional specifications, use cases) and supporting technical documentation for complex software systems
• Strong analytical skills, creative problem solving
• Ability to grasp complex design concepts and business scenarios
• An excellent understanding of the software development lifecycle - in particular Agile methodologies
• Programming experience would be beneficial but not essential
• Ability to gather complex information from multiple sources and articulate it via verbal/written communication to engineering team via clear user stories with robust acceptance criteria
• Ability to multitask and prioritize when working on multiple projects
• Result-oriented self-motivated team player with a flexible attitude
• Reliable under pressure with a good sense of humor and the ability to have some fun!

Core Values

Love what you do: We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and make a difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.

Challenge everything: We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to make things better.

Have fun, be good: Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.

About CFC

CFC is a specialist insurance provider, pioneering emerging risk and market leader in cyber. Our global insurance platform uses cutting-edge technology and data science to deliver smarter, faster underwriting and protect customers from today's most critical business risk.

Headquartered in London with offices in New York, Austin, Brussels and Brisbane, CFC has over 800 staff and is trusted by more than 100,000 businesses across 90 countries.

At CFC, insurance isn't just about underwriting. From data science to software development, and digital marketing design, we've got something for everyone. We're passionate about pushing boundaries, thinking differently and building the insurance company of the future.

CFC is committed to the principles of equal opportunities and creating an environment in which all individuals are always treated with dignity and respect. We encourage a diverse corporate culture of openness and appreciation to create an environment in which your talent can be developed in the best possible way. Should you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process please let us know.

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