Product Owner

Charter Global; United States; Remote; USD 124,000 - 207,000; Part time

Job summary

Charter Global seeks a Product Owner for Insurance and Platform Transformation on a remote engagement. The role coordinates work across new business, underwriting, policy administration, billing, servicing, claims, and reinsurance to deliver scalable platform solutions.

You will guide future-state design, assess capabilities, and prioritize implementation-ready requirements while advising clients on capabilities, configurations, and long-term sustainability of the platform.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of consulting, insurance, or financial services technology experience.
• At least five years in Life insurance and Annuity.
• Experience leading large-scale transformation programs and major workstreams.
• Proven client relationship management and cross-functional leadership.
• Experience with policy administration platforms such as FAST, ALIP, OIPA, DXC LifePro or comparable PAS.
• Strong understanding of Life & Annuity value chain: config, underwriting, admin, servicing, and claims.
• Experience leading end-to-end requirements, design, integration, APIs, and data migration.
• Strong Agile experience: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe.

Responsibilities

• Lead workstreams across new business, underwriting, policy administration, billing, servicing, claims, disbursements, commissions, and reinsurance.
• Translate product, operational, compliance, and customer requirements into scalable platform solutions.
• Lead future-state process design, capability assessments, product-launch readiness, and prioritization of implementation-ready requirements.
• Guide clients in evaluating out-of-the-box capabilities, configuration options, customization trade-offs, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Partner with product, architecture, configuration, integration, data, conversion, testing, release, and operations teams to maintain end-to-end solution alignment.

Skills

Insurance domain

Product ownership

Stakeholder mgmt

Agile methods

Cross-functional lead

Job description

Job Title

Product Owner - Insurance and Platform Transformation

Location

WFH/Remote

Duration

3-6 months+ contract

Client Serving Role

Life Insurance

Job Description

• Lead workstreams across new business, underwriting, policy administration, billing, servicing, claims, disbursements, commissions, and reinsurance.
• Translate product, operational, compliance, and customer requirements into scalable platform solutions.
• Lead future-state process design, capability assessments, product-launch readiness, and the prioritization of implementation-ready requirements.
• Guide clients in evaluating out-of-the-box capabilities, configuration options, customization trade-offs, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Partner with product, architecture, configuration, integration, data, conversion, testing, release, and operations teams to maintain end-to-end solution alignment.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of relevant professional experience in consulting, insurance, financial services technology, or enterprise transformation.
• At least five years of experience of experience within Life insurance and Annuity
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale business and technology transformation programs , major workstream, functional area, or platform capability.
• Experience managing client relationships and leading cross-functional teams in complex delivery environments
• Experience with one or more policy administration platforms including FAST (Verisk), ALIP, OIPA, DXC wmA/CyberLife, EXL LifePro, or comparable modern PAS solutions
• Strong understanding of the Life & Annuity value chain, including product configuration, underwriting, policy administration, servicing, and claims
• Experience leading platform end to end requirements, design, configuration, integration, APIs, , and data migration efforts
• Strong experience working within Agile frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe practices.