$63000 - $70000 / 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.

JOB DESCRIPTION

A product owner’s 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 at Vertafore is a member of an energetic agile team of Software and QA engineers and is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and ensuring that developed solutions achieve business requirements.

You will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to understand business processes/goals and identify business problems that may be effectively resolved with technology solutions. You’ll work closely with Sr. Product Owners and / or Product Managers to understand roadmap goals/strategy and distill high-level requirements into a backlog of user stories that enable development teams to understand what problems need to be solved in order to build the best solution. As a Product Owner you will also prioritize the development backlog and work with Sr. Product Owners and / or Product Managers to plan and sequence the work appropriately. As features or user stories are delivered, you’ll 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 user stories for the development teams to implement

· Develop and maintain a prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation

· Partner with QA to define acceptance criteria and verify acceptance criteria are met

· Research and respond to questions from designers, developers, and QA

· Clarify user stories to the appropriate level of detail where needed

· Collaborate with product management, development, and user experience design staff to lead on time, successful scope definition and feature deployment