Product Owner

Role Name

Surety Product Owner

Location

Mississauga CA

JOB DESCRIPTION

In this role you will work with Global Surety business stakeholders Product Leaders Business Analysts and Agile engineering teams to support delivery of business capabilities across the Surety platform

You will help translate business needs into welldefined features and user stories maintain and prioritize the product backlog participate in PI and sprint planning and support engineering and QA teams throughout delivery

The ideal candidate will have working knowledge of the Surety domain strong business analysis and Product Owner skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both business and technology teams

Key Responsibilities

1 Surety Business Domain Support

Work with Underwriting Operations Billing and Product stakeholders to understand business requirements and priorities

Apply working knowledge of the Surety bond lifecycle including new business changesriders renewals cancellations reinstatements and related transactions

Support requirements across Contract and Commercial Surety products

Collaborate with business SMEs on more complex Surety scenarios such as cosurety international guarantees and regional variations

Document business rules process flows data requirements and acceptance criteria

2 Product Backlog Agile Delivery

Support backlog refinement and help translate business requirements into Features and User Stories

Write clear user stories with appropriate acceptance criteria

Participate in PI Planning sprint planning sprint reviews demos and backlog refinement

Work closely with Product Leadership to prioritize backlog items based on business value dependencies and delivery needs

Provide daytoday functional clarification to developers and QA engineers

Track dependencies and coordinate with other Product Owners and delivery teams when required

3 Systems Integration

Develop an understanding of the application ecosystem and how information flows between user interfaces APIs core Surety platforms billing and downstream systems

Work with architects and engineers to clarify functional requirements for APIs and system integrations

Support validation of rating premium calculations billing currency and other financial business rules

Partner with QA and business users during integration testing bug resolution and UAT

Required Qualifications Experience

Surety Insurance Domain

2 years of experience in Surety Commercial Insurance Specialty Insurance or a related business domain

Working knowledge of the Surety bond lifecycle and common bond types is preferred

Exposure to areas such as rating billing cosurety guarantees or financial transactions is advantageous but not required to be expertlevel

Product Ownership Business Analysis

2 years of experience as a Product Owner Business Analyst Product Analyst or similar role in an Agile environment

Experience translating business requirements into Features User Stories and Acceptance Criteria

Familiarity with AgileScrum exposure to SAFe or PI Planning is beneficial

Experience with Jira and Confluence or similar Agile delivery tools

Technical Aptitude

General understanding of APIs data flows JSON and system integrations

Ability to work effectively with developers QA engineers architects and business stakeholders

Ability to learn business and technical concepts without being expected to act as the technical architect

Stakeholder Communication Skills

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Ability to collaborate across Business Product Engineering and QA teams

Comfortable asking questions clarifying requirements and facilitating discussions

Ability to organize competing priorities and work effectively in a multiteam environment