We are looking for an experienced Surety Product Owner to work with business stakeholders, product leaders, business analysts, and Agile engineering teams to deliver business capabilities across the Surety platform.
🔹 Key Responsibilities:
- Work with underwriting, operations, billing, and product teams to gather business requirements.
- Understand the Surety bond lifecycle, including new business, renewals, cancellations, and reinstatements.
- Translate business requirements into features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Manage and prioritize product backlogs based on business needs.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and PI Planning.
- Collaborate with developers, QA, and architects on APIs, system integrations, billing, and premium calculations.
- Support integration testing, defect resolution, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
🔹 Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Minimum 2 years of experience in Surety, Commercial Insurance, Specialty Insurance, or a related business domain.
- Minimum 2 years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Analyst, or similar role.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Experience writing user stories, features, and acceptance criteria.
- Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence.
- Basic understanding of APIs, JSON, data flows, and system integrations.
- Strong communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.
- Knowledge of Surety bonds, underwriting, rating, and billing is preferred.
