About the position
At InsCipher, our commitment to our customers is what drives us. Ours is a culture of innovation and progress. We are a creative team of doers constantly striving to develop value-driven products and services for our customers. Our ultimate goal is to become the trusted authority and leading partner for state departments of insurance, surplus lines associations, and brokers nationwide. We’re achieving that goal by enhancing every facet of our customers reporting and tax filings through education and innovative, streamlined compliance solutions. We’re growing fast and want you to be a part of it! We’re looking for a talented, detail-oriented Associate Product Owner to join our team. Under the direction of the Vice President of Product Management, this role will be responsible for translating high-level business visions into actionable requirements and detailed project plans. This role requires a basic understanding of product management concepts, including story points, sprints, user stories, and roadmaps. Additionally, the Associate Product Owner will collaborate with other members of the product team, assisting on various projects as needed. This includes doing backlog refinement, communicating with developers, helping to maintain alignment within the team, and supporting the completion of team objectives. Strong strategic thinking, communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities will be key to success in this role. This position has no direct supervisory responsibility but does serve as a coach and mentor for other positions in the department and a champion for innovation and automation within specific departmental and customer workflows. Therefore, the employee must lead through influence and persuasion rather than dominance and coercion.
Responsibilities
- Required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned.
- Ability to innovate through new ideas and by championing change – Leadership skills are a must!
- Maintain a backlog of projects, being able to prioritize projects effectively based on an analysis of the business impact and the level of effort.
- Develop software system user stories as needed in support of system enhancements or maintenance under the guidance and management of the assigned Senior Product Owner.
- Be able to communicate priorities and maintain a roadmap of projects to team members and departmental leads.
- Meet regularly with the development team to track the progress of tickets, refine workflows/processes, and improve the overall output and impact of deliverables.
- Interact with customers and stakeholders to identify new product ideas and enhancements.
- Requirements gathering and User Story creation – Truly understand the end-user experience.
- Participate in Roadmap building and project follow-through.
- Troubleshooting product/system bugs and coordinating/communicating maintenance updates.
- Perform market and competitive landscape research to support business plans/cases.
- Manage product-centric projects and collaborate across departments using positivity and persuasion to get people to perform.
- Monitor product success via financial projections and performance.
- Collaborate strategically with marketing and other departments to formulate go-to-market strategies and launch plans.
- Create and maintain technical documentation as needed.
- Excellent communication – demonstrated ability in written and oral form to communicate ideas effectively.
- Collaborative – demonstrated ability to work within a team structure to reach a common goal and efficiently close projects.
- Expert in a variety of software tools and the ability to quickly learn new tools.
- Strong analytical skills to support data-driven decisions.
- Product/user interface design experience with web or software technologies.
- Function out of an Agile style approach to task management and prioritization, including maintaining projects, and tasks out of Jira, Confluence, Loop, Monday.com, and other task and document tracking tools.
- Respond to the development team as requested via Jira, Confluence, Teams Chats, and Email promptly.
- Attend all related team meetings and customer meetings as requested, being prepared beforehand for such meetings and actively participating while in the meetings.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a science-related field (Business, Engineering, Information Systems, Technology, Statistics, Economics, etc.).
- At least 4 years of work experience in product management, or a data analyst field may be considered instead of a formal degree.
- A minimum of one year of experience working in a product-related role in an Agile software-related environment (preferably with a SaaS company). Such roles may include Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager, UX/UI designer, Product Owner, Scrum Master, or Front-End Developer.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision plans
- Amazing work-life balance with 4 weeks of Paid Time Off
- 10 Paid Company Holidays with 2 floating holidays
- 401K Programs with employer match
- Personal assistant programs for support in a healthy personal and work life
