Product Owner II

Vertafore Career Center; East Lansing (MI); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertafore Career Center seeks a Product Owner II to translate business problems into user stories that guide development and deliver customer value. You will own the backlog and align work with product strategy, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.

You’ll work with Product Managers to distill roadmap goals into actionable stories, prioritize the backlog, and verify that acceptance criteria are met with QA.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years’ professional experience, preferably with B2B SaaS software.
• Previous experience as a product owner for a B2B SaaS software company.
• Real world experience on an Agile software development team.
• Experience in a cross-functional organization with multiple teams.
• Experience supporting customer needs and communicating.
• Excellent communication with multiple parties including customers.
• Demonstrated judgment within generally defined practices to obtain solutions.

Responsibilities

• Translate business problems into a prioritized backlog of user stories for development teams to implement.
• Lead cross-functional teams to document user stories with appropriate detail and clarity.
• Translate goals and strategy into actionable work, prioritizing and sequencing development efforts.
• Partner with QA to define and verify acceptance criteria.
• Clarify requirements with designers, developers, and QA; respond to questions from stakeholders.
• Collaborate with customers to clarify requirements and ensure value to end users.
• Lead on time scope definition and feature deployment with product management, development, and UX staff.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile

Cross-functional

Customer communication

Decision making

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

The insurance industry runs on Vertafore. We equip agencies, MGAs, and carriers with the core digital systems, specialized AI, and data-driven foundation to eliminate distribution drag across the insurance lifecycle, spanning sales, servicing, and back-office operations.

Underpinned by unmatched speed and performance power, we are the trusted backbone that’s taking the insurance industry from friction to flow with Distribution Velocity–speed, performance, and trust - to drive growth at scale.

With over 95% of the top agencies and insurers and 50% of industry compliance transactions running through Vertafore, we lead at the intersection of innovation and trust, giving insurance professionals the confidence to transform and win in theAIera.

Our reach is global, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

A product owner II’s main objective is to translate business problems and requirements into user stories that enable a development team to create the best solution to solve customer problems. A product owner II at Vertafore owns their backlog and prioritizes it to align with product strategy, business goals, and achieve project goals and objectives. The product owner II will provide clarity in complex projects, collaborating with internal, and at-times external stakeholders.

You will work closely with Product Managers to understand roadmap goals/strategy and distill high-level requirements user stories that enable development teams to understand what problems need to be solved to create the best solution. As a Product Owner II you will also prioritize the development backlog and work with Product Managers to plan and sequence the work appropriately. As features or user stories are delivered you’ll work closely with QA to ensure the problems are solved and requirements are met.

Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success and FUN. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make an impact in your career.

Core Responsibilities:

• Translate business problems and requirements into prioritized backlog of user stories for the development teams to implement
• Facilitate and lead cross-functional teams, primarily internal and, at times external, to get the clarity needed to document user stories to appropriate level of detail
• Translate project goals/objectives/strategy to actionable work, prioritizing and sequencing the development work to achieve project goals and timelines
• Partner with QA to define acceptance criteria and verify acceptance criteria are met
• Research and respond to questions from designers, developers, and QA
• When needed, work directly with customers, and conduct market research to clarify requirements and ensure solution will deliver value to end users
• Clarify user stories to the appropriate level of detail where needed
• Collaborate with product management, development, and user experience design staff to lead on time, successful scope definition and feature deployment

Core Requirements:

• 2-4 years’ professional experience, preferably working with B2B SaaS software
• Previous experience as a product owner for a B2B SaaS software company
• Real world experience working as part of an Agile software development team
• Experience working within a cross functional organization and understanding the needs of multiple teams
• Experience supporting customer needs and communicating
• Experience communicating effectively with multiple parties, including customers
• Demonstrated ability to exercise judgment within generally defined practices and select methods to obtain solutions

Additional Requirements and Details:

• Travel required up to 10% of the time
• Located and working from an office location when required
• Ability to work remote with a stable internet connection on an as needed basis
• Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.
• Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).
• Frequent sitting and/or standing.
• #LI-Hybrid
• $70,000 – 80,000 / year