Senior Product Owner - Agile, ROI-Driven Tech Leader

ICW Group; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Job summary

ICW Group in San Diego, CA, seeks a Senior Product Owner to drive the development and delivery of innovative products that meet customer needs and align with strategic goals. You will bridge business stakeholders, development teams, and end-users, ensuring clear communication and prioritization across the product lifecycle.

You will define vision, backlog, and roadmap, participate in agile ceremonies, and collaborate with product managers and the Scrum Master to deliver customer-focused

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university is required with a major or emphasis in Business, Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years’ related experience inclusive of leading technical teams, collecting business needs, and translating requirements to a technical audience.
• Experience in the insurance industry highly desired.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role, with a track record of successfully launching and managing products or platforms.

Responsibilities

• Maximizes the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum team.
• Defines and communicates product vision, overall strategy and growth opportunities to business and IT stakeholders, with minimal guidance from leadership and other Product team members.
• Drives the continuous refinement of the product vision, roadmap, and strategy to drive optimum business value.
• Works closely with business stakeholders across the organization to convert product ideas into a prioritized backlog according to business value or ROI.
• Participates in agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, iteration reviews, and retrospectives to ensure continuous improvement.
• Facilitates Product Grooming Backlog sessions to align priority & strategy for better cross functional collaboration.
• Remains accountable for each stage of the development process and the final product, evaluating progress and performance at each iteration.
• Works closely with Technical Product Managers and Scrum master to ensure successful execution of the product roadmap.
• Anticipates product’s future needs by maintaining user personas and journey maps.
• Creates annual and quarterly plans to align product groups to roadmap deliverables.
• Independently manages and proactively identifies direction updates related to product areas.
• Owns and drives user‑centric product outcomes collaboratively with business and IT leadership.
• Researches and analyzes market trends and user needs to develop and shape the roadmap.
• Collaborates with other Product Owners, Product Managers and shares best practices across teams to ensure alignment and consistency.

Skills

Agile processes

Insurance industry

Value stream mapping

Technical product development

Mobile/web design

Communication skills

MS Office

Time management

Analytical skills

Critical thinking

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor's degree

10+ years related experience

Experience in insurance industry

5+ years as Product Owner/PM

Job description

ICW Group in San Diego, CA, seeks a Senior Product Owner to drive the development and delivery of innovative products that meet customer needs and align with strategic goals. You will bridge business stakeholders, development teams, and end-users, ensuring clear communication and prioritization across the product lifecycle.

You will define vision, backlog, and roadmap, participate in agile ceremonies, and collaborate with product managers and the Scrum Master to deliver customer-focused