Product Owner II

65000 - 85000 / year

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business boost their productivity and efficiencies and lower costs while strengthening relationships.

Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation technology partnerships and focusing on customer success.

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create think and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.

We are headquartered in Denver Colorado with offices across the U.S. Canada and India.

A Product Owner IIs 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.

Youll 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 youll 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 Requirements and Responsibilities:

Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:

Translate business problems and requirements into prioritized backlog of user stories for the development teams to implement

Facilitate and lead cross-functional teams both internally and externally to get the clarity needed to document requirements for user stories with the appropriate level of detail

Translate project goals objectives and strategies to actionable work prioritizing and sequencing the development work to achieve project goals and timelines

Partner with quality assurance analysts to define acceptance criteria and verify acceptance criteria are met

Research and respond to questions from designers developers and quality assurance analysts

When needed work directly with customers and conduct market research to clarify requirements and ensure the proposed solution will deliver value to end users

Own and clarify user stories to the appropriate level of detail where needed

Collaborate with product management development marketing customer support customer success and user experience design staff to lead on time successful scope definition and feature deployment

Customer escalation point when customer support cannot triage the issue themselves. This requires investigating issues further with engineering and supporting outreach to customer support so they can communicate with the customer who submitted the issue

Other duties as assigned

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THE VERTAFORE STORY

Over the past 50 years Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today were proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster reduce costs and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics delivering actionable insight right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.

The Vertafore Way

Insurance is about relationships and technology should make those relationships stronger. Thats why at Vertafore its our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers becoming better every day and delivering results you can see we provide the level oftrustandsecuritythat insurance is all about.

Bias to Action: Were united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.

Win Together: We work together as one team showing empathy and respect along the way.

Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.

Say It Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.

Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.

We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.

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Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.

The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities duties skill or working addition this document does not create an employment contract implied or otherwise other than an at will relationship.

Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race color religion sex gender identity pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship age marital status physical disability mental disability medical condition sexual orientation genetic information or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.

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