Product Owner

Summary

Join INSTANDA, a leading Insurtech company, as a Product Owner and play a pivotal role in shaping our innovative insurance platform. You will be responsible for managing the product backlog, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring client needs are met. This role requires strong communication and leadership skills, along with experience in SaaS and Agile environments. The position is primarily remote, based in the UK, with some travel to the London office. INSTANDA offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including generous holiday allowance, flexible work options, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Have demonstrable experience (3+ years) as a Product Owner within SaaS and an Agile working environment
• Have demonstrable experience of owning and refining a Product backlog and prioritising Product features
• Be able to assess large data sets of information to draw conclusions about topics, issues and impact
• Have some experience using JIRA or similar tools
• Have demonstrable experience determining, assessing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria
• Have demonstrable experience of interpreting specific requirements into comprehensive rather than specific needs
• Be self-driven to learn in detail how the INSTANDA platform works
• Be able to balance stakeholder needs to/ with overall Product strategy
• Be a proactive and consistent communicator with strong stakeholder management skills

Responsibilities

• Managing the product backlog and working collaboratively with stakeholders across the organisation to refine and priorities the Product backlog in line with evolving user needs and strategic objectives
• Evaluate and determine scheduling for Engineering teams to support delivery in line with project phase goals and product goals
• Deliver a world-class product by utilising excellent communication and leadership skills to actively and effectively interpret and translate requirements from clients or client-facing functions for/ to Product Design, Architecture and the wider Engineering community
• Playing an active role in analysing and refining requirements, proposals, user stories, acceptance criteria and delivery details, maximising the value delivered by INSTANDA and ensuring that scope remains aligned to customer expectations and broader Product vision
• Supporting the Head of Product in developing Product release plans, setting expectations for the delivery of new features and functionality, and engaging with internal and external stakeholders to explain direction of travel and resolve queries with priorities
• Forging deep relationships with internal stakeholders across INSTANDA, ensuring overall Product strategy, Product goals and release goals are understood, translated and linked to purpose
• Attending and making critical contributions to ceremonies (Refinement, Spring Planning, Sprint Review, Stand-Up, Retro); providing feedback and making priority decisions where required
• Translating the Product roadmap for internal and external stakeholders and keeping them up to date with new product features and functionalities; leading and facilitating client user focus groups and customer conversations to ensure the voice of the customer remains central to INSTANDA’s product strategy
• Proactively identify and pursue opportunities for positive change, both within Product and across the wider business, champion a culture of continuous improvement and evolution
• Building presence and visibility as a technical and functional point of expertise for the INSTANDA platform, its clients, users and target markers
• Support the Head of Product in strategic planning and with other ad-hoc assignments as may be required from time to time

Preferred Qualifications

A background in Financial Services or Insurance

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous 28 days holiday allowance, in addition to public holidays
• For every year of service you complete, we’ll give you an additional days holiday (max. 5 days)
• One Dynamic Day per month on top of your holiday allowance to spend time doing the things you want to do or simply catching up with life admin
• Freedom Pass work up to 4 weeks of the year from anywhere
• FlexiBank you decide when to use your public holiday allocation
• Remote & Hybrid approach varying with the nature of your role
• Life cover; income protection and participation in the company pension scheme
• All employees are included in the company discretionary bonus scheme
• ��100 per month to put towards wellness activities
• Annual learning & development allowance of £1,250 and free access to LinkedIn learning and Microsoft ESI learning platforms