What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Product Owner position at Optomi?
Technical Product Owner
Optomi, is in partnership with a leading insurance company is seeking a Technical Product Owner in
Branchville, NJ or Hartford, Connect
to lead the vision, strategy, and execution for key capabilities such as Azure Cloud Migration, Identity & Access Management (IAM), and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). This role translates strategic imperatives into actionable delivery plans for agile development teams, ensuring measurable business outcomes. The Product Owner serves as a user advocate, collaborating with stakeholders across IT, business, and security to drive continuous improvement and maximize value delivery. Success in this role requires strong analytical skills, a passion for customer-centric solutions, and the ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels.
Responsibilities
- Effectively synthesizes and translates product and program strategies and vision into actionable delivery plans for their dedicated agile development team
- Responsible for end to end value delivery and outcomes at the team level, collaborating with product leaders, IT partners, business leaders, and stakeholders to ensure teams are building the right thing at the right time.
- Acts as a customer advocate and proxy, engaging with internal and external customers to understand needs, optimize feedback mechanisms, and incorporate outcomes in product scope and design.
- Conducts and participates in market and competitive research efforts, introducing applicable findings in development of product initiatives.
- Collects, refines, and analyzes relevant data for informed decision making. Employs an economic view, assessing cost, benefit, and business value in determination of team priorities.
- Cultivates a product mindset, ensuring team-level understanding and alignment with product strategy throughout development and innovation activities, navigating ambiguity, and embracing change.
- Owns, manages, and regularly prioritizes the user story backlog. Refines features and user stories in collaboration with the Product Manager and Business Analyst.
- Leads demonstration of business value and guides teams through agile ceremonies, program planning, defect remediation, and continuous improvement activities.
- Proactively manages team-level dependencies, adapting delivery plans and communicating impacts as appropriate.
- Collaboratively manages measurement and tracking of outcomes and status reporting at the team level.
Qualifications
- Understanding of the P&C insurance industry, product line or domain and aptitude for continued learning
- College degree preferred
- 3 years of business analysis experience
- 3 years of experience in insurance line of business role
- Demonstrated success in leading projects from inception to delivery