Senior Product Owner, Insurance Tech — Onsite NJ

HTC Global; New Jersey; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and Workplace flexibility

Work-Life-Balance

Defined career development plan

Rewards & Recognition program

Learning & Development focus

Job summary

HTC Global Services seeks a Senior Product Owner – Insurance Technology to drive vision and delivery of digital products for insurance workflows. You will translate complex needs into epics and user stories, lead discovery with business leaders, and guide Agile delivery across cross-functional teams.

The role demands strong insurance domain knowledge, backlog management, and effective stakeholder communication to align with executives and engineers for measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Product Lead, or similar role delivering software or digital products.
• Demonstrated success defining product direction and delivering products or capabilities that users value and adopt.
• Strong knowledge of the insurance industry and familiarity with insurance operations and terminology, including policies, endorsements, renewals, claims, underwriting, premiums, exposures, client servicing, billing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and financial transactions.
• Proven ability to translate complex business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, business rules, and functional requirements.
• Hands-on experience managing and prioritizing a product backlog within an Agile or Scrum delivery environment.
• Experience facilitating discovery, requirements, process-mapping, training, or decision-making sessions with business users and leadership.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with executives, business teams, engineers, QA professionals, and subject-matter experts.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
• Working knowledge of data mapping, transformation rules, APIs, error handling, exception management, and retry mechanisms.
• Self-directed ownership, sound judgment, attention to detail, and a consistent record of timely delivery with limited supervision.
• Working proficiency with AI Tools, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio or comparable productivity and process-mapping tools.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate product vision, strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes aligned with business priorities.
• Partner with business leaders and users to understand goals, operating processes, pain points, and opportunities.
• Evaluate product ideas based on customer impact, business value, cost, risk, technical feasibility, return on investment, and build-versus-buy considerations.
• Build stakeholder alignment around product priorities, trade-offs, and release decisions.
• Monitor product adoption, performance, and business outcomes to guide ongoing enhancements.
• Lead discovery workshops and working sessions with business leaders, subject-matter experts, users, architects, developers, data teams, UX, and QA.
• Document current-state and future-state workflows, business rules, data needs, integrations, exceptions, dependencies, and control requirements.
• Translate product strategy and stakeholder needs into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, and supporting documentation.
• Break complex requirements into appropriately sized, testable backlog items while maintaining an end-to-end view of the user journey.
• Identify unclear, conflicting, or missing requirements and drive timely decisions.
• Leverage AI-powered tools and technologies to improve product discovery, backlog management, and stakeholder communication.

Skills

Product ownership

Insurance domain knowledge

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder management

Requirements writing

Data analysis

AI tools familiarity

SQL validation

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Salesforce

Sagitta

Job description

HTC Global Services seeks a Senior Product Owner – Insurance Technology to drive vision and delivery of digital products for insurance workflows. You will translate complex needs into epics and user stories, lead discovery with business leaders, and guide Agile delivery across cross-functional teams.

The role demands strong insurance domain knowledge, backlog management, and effective stakeholder communication to align with executives and engineers for measurable outcomes.