JOB SUMMARY

The Product Owner’s mission is to work with stakeholders to create and evolve Allied World digital products. Working closely with business, end users and functional groups (e.g. Design, Development, Infrastructure) they will identify opportunities to improve efficiency, drive innovation, and solve business problems to support the growth of Allied World’s business. They will work with their cross functional Product team to implement solutions that bring value to Allied World.

Deliver Business Outcomes – “What and Why”

• Understand the business need, user needs, manage priorities and establish the vision for the product
• Developing and maintaining the Product roadmap, release plans and backlog
• Decompose the business needs into user stories with acceptance criteria
• Act as lead Product owner for a product where multiple product owners are involved
• Create and leverage the business case to understand and quantify the value of outcomes

Well informed Stakeholders and users– “Who”

• Identifying the relevant stakeholders and users and their impact/interest
• Through providing regular updates, on both strategic and tactical plans e.g. Roadmap reviews and demos

Grow the Agile Practice at Allied World - “How”

• Work with the team and broader organization to adopt agile practices to improve transparency, communication, effectiveness and team happiness.
• Participate in the AW Community of Practice and bring new ideas and practices the community
• Support and mentor junior colleagues along their journey
• Be a leader in the Product Practice to support the overall strategy

• Preferred qualification of a Bachelor’s degree with product development experience
• Business domain knowledge of Insurance and/or Reinsurance
• Use data to measure progress and make priority decisions
• Experience negotiating trade-offs of scope and timelines
  • Is a good listener
  • Has the ability to negotiate and be persuasive when needed

• 3-5 years’ experience in a Product Management Role
• Ability to advise and manage expectations of stakeholders, earning trust and building durable relationships
• Can conduct user research, customer interviews and lean experiments
• Ability to work collaboratively with a team of varying skillsets - Developers, designers, data engineers, testers

• Compensation:

  The below annualized base pay range is a broad range based on analysis of similar positions in the market. The actual base pay for the position may be above or below the listed range and determined by a number of considerations, including but not limited to complexity, location, and scope of the role, along with experience, skills, education, training, and other conditions of employment. Base salary represents one component of Allied World’s comprehensive total reward package, which may also include annual incentive compensation rewards.

  $120,000 - $160,000 annually