What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner position at Vertafore Career Center?
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
Other duties as assigned