Description
Product Owner Role for Distribution team of an insurance client
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for distribution capabilities supporting the P&C; insurance client - spanning agent/broker portals, quoting and submission, producer onboarding and appointments, commissions/compensation, and channel self-service - from vision and roadmap through delivery and continuous improvement.
- Partner with distribution business leaders, underwriting, IT, data, and operations stakeholders across multiple geographies to shape, communicate, and continually refine the product vision and roadmap in alignment with the client's strategic priorities.
- Translate distribution business needs into a transparent, prioritized backlog of epics, features, and user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria, balancing business value, effort, risk, and time-to-market.
- Own and continuously groom the product backlog; make transparent trade-off and prioritization decisions and keep stakeholders aligned on scope and sequencing.
- Work daily with cross-geography agile squads (business analysts, engineers, data, QA, and designers) to clarify requirements, remove roadblocks, and ensure capabilities are built efficiently and meet producer and business needs.
- Coordinate delivery across time zones and stakeholder groups - onshore client teams and offshore delivery - and actively lead or participate in quarterly/PI planning, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives.
- Define, track, and report on distribution product KPIs and OKRs (e.g., producer onboarding cycle time, quote-to-bind conversion, channel adoption, and self-service rates), using insights to steer roadmap decisions.
- Collaborate with architecture and integration teams to align distribution systems - policy administration, rating/quoting, CRM, agent/broker platforms, and third-party data - with business goals, resolving open issues and dependencies quickly and efficiently.
- Ensure distribution products mee
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