Product Owner - Belfast, United Kingdom - Applied Systems UK

Description

Job Description:

Applied Systems, Inc., the worldwide leader in insurance technology, is currently searching for a
Product Owner within our UK and Ireland team on a
12-month Fixed Term Contract

Our Product team creates the strategy to achieve our vision, defines roadmaps by understanding the needs of our customers and the market to drive the features that will ensure the products delight our customers.

The Product team works cross functionally with all departments to define, develop, deploy, and maintain products and services that:

• Provide more value than our competitors
• Help build a sustainable competitive advantage
• Deliver measurable benefit to Applied Systems

Product Owners are domain experts responsible for setting, prioritizing, and accepting the work generated by the assigned agile development teams in order to ensure the teams are delivering and the business is getting the most value from the solutions.

They own, manage, and prioritize backlogs and collaborate with the Product Manager and the business to define the vision and set product strategy.

What you'll do

• Be the voice of the client and ambassador of the product, owning the product roadmap, collaborating with Product Managers and stakeholders on the product vision and strategy to achieve it
• Elicit customer requirements using interviews, document review, workflow analysis, and requirements workshops
• Create innovative solutions to customer problems, needs and wants
• Own, manage and prioritize the development team backlog and work, taking ownership of any changes in direction/priority
• Plan enough work for each release before the development cycle begins, ensuring the development team is supplied with valuable and welldefined stories
• Keep the development team motivated and focused on the committed deliveries, taking responsibility for delivery of key items, protecting the development teams from unplanned work
• Continuously prioritize product and/or release backlogs, and conduct backlog grooming/refinement sessions with respective scrum team
• Ensures product backlog themes are addressed in the release backlog according to priority order

What you'll need to succeed

We're looking for someone who:

• Can work remotely or from an Applied Systems office

Your experience should include some or all of the following:

• Experience or training as a Product Owner or Business Analyst in an Agile development environment
• Professional experience or training in gathering requirements, creating documentation and user stories
• Innovative; inspires innovation in others through engagement and negotiation
• Ability to make smart feature (customer experience) versus time to market tradeoffs

Additionally, you may have:

• Experience within the Insurance industry

What You'll Gain
Competitive Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance and Eye Care
• Wellness incentives
• Pension scheme with employer matched contributions

Work-Life Balance

• Competitive paid vacation time and a free day for your birthday
• Personal/sick time
• Paid holidays
• Flex Time
• Volunteer time off

Empowering Career Growth and Success - We invest in talent, care about our people and are empowered by the results of our work.

We grow our teams from within and give our employees opportunities to advance.


What We Value
We strive for excellence at every turn to be the best at what we do. We invest in talent, care about our people and are empowered by the results of our work. We fulfil the promise of insurance - safeguarding and protecting what matters most in people's lives. And there is no more important job than that.

Our focus on the workforce, workplace and marketplace gives us a qualified individual in an environment in which they can be productive while we maintain our position in the industry.

To help drive that change toward a vibrant, modern workplace, we have employee-driven networks with commonalities in ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and military status.

Who We Are
For more than 35 years, Applied Systems has created innovative technology for the global insurance industry. Today, we are a rapidly growing software leader that is revolutionizing the way agencies and brokerages succeed.

We are smart and curious people in a tech-first environment that champions bold and powerful thinking. We are transforming a complex industry through digitization, automation, and innovative new partnerships. Together we are driving the industry fearlessly forward.


It's an exciting time at Applied. You can do big things here, in an environment that supports creative thinking and bold ideas. Visit

for more information on how you can challenge what's possible.

EEO Statement

• Applied Systems is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Diversity and Inclusion is a business imperative and is a part of building our brand and reputation. At Applied, we don't discriminate, and we a