Remote Product Owner: Policy Admin Platform

Ian Martin Group; United States; On-site; USD 88,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ian Martin Group is seeking an experienced Product Owner to lead the evolution of a homegrown policy administration platform undergoing a significant rebuild and refactoring across multiple insurance product lines.

The role requires connecting business strategy, insurance operations, and technology execution, owning the product direction, prioritization, and backlog while coordinating with external vendors and internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar technology product leader.
• Strong knowledge of the insurance industry and insurance products.
• Direct experience with policy administration systems and/or policy administration implementations.
• Experience leading significant platform modernization, implementation, rebuild, or refactoring initiatives.
• Strong product-road mapping and backlog-management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own and communicate the product vision and roadmap for a homegrown policy administration platform.
• Lead product planning associated with a significant platform rebuild and refactoring initiative.
• Translate business and insurance requirements into clear product priorities, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Own and continuously refine the product backlog.
• Lead backlog grooming, prioritization, sprint preparation, and product decision-making.
• Partner closely with underwriting, operations, technology, and other business stakeholders.
• Coordinate delivery with external technology vendors and development partners.
• Manage competing requirements and priorities across multiple insurance products and business stakeholders.
• Ensure product decisions account for both immediate delivery needs and the long‑term architecture and scalability of the platform.
• Create transparency around priorities, dependencies, tradeoffs, and product decisions.
• Support implementation and modernization of policy administration capabilities across multiple product lines.
• Help establish stronger internal product-management practices as the organization reduces its reliance on external vendors.
• Potentially assume broader team leadership responsibilities as the internal organization evolves.

Skills

Product Owner

Insurance industry knowledge

Policy administration systems

Agile

Stakeholder management

Vendor coordination

Platform modernization

Roadmapping

Backlog management

Job description

The Ian Martin Group is seeking an experienced Product Owner to lead the evolution of a homegrown policy administration platform undergoing a significant rebuild and refactoring across multiple insurance product lines.

The role requires connecting business strategy, insurance operations, and technology execution, owning the product direction, prioritization, and backlog while coordinating with external vendors and internal stakeholders.