Product Owner

Product Owner

You’re legendary. We’re hiring. Let’s talk!

Apply today for an opportunity to join one of North America’s top insurance premium financing companies. Since 1977, our company has grown to more than 500 Associates and 30 locations across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Canada.

Every day, we work to deliver on our Corporate Mission Statement: “To be the market leader by delivering innovative financial and technology solutions to help our Customers, partners, and investors achieve their goals.”

How do we do that? By empowering and encouraging our Associates to provide products and legendary Customer service unparalleled in our industry.

For Our Associates

• At the office: Based on your location, we offer parking and commuter benefits programs to help make your commute a little easier.
• Getting started: We offer a comprehensive paid training program that will make you feel prepared and excited about your role.
• Staying healthy: Our wellness program, LiveWell, combined with our Employee Assistance Program (for when you need confidential support), help you keep an eye on short and long-term goals and any bumps that pop up along the way. We are also proud to offer subsidies to support your health and fitness goals by providing gym membership subsidies.
• Preparing for your future: Imperial PFS offers a 401(k) with a company match
• Company culture: Our Associates are the foundation of our company and we want you to enjoy working here! With company lunches, corporate outings, and even the occasional ice cream truck, you never know what will pop up to make your day.
• Peace of mind: Our insurance benefits include medical, prescription, dental, voluntary vision, voluntary life/dependent life, group term life, and AD&D.

JOB SUMMARY:

A successful Product Owner will help to nurture profitable program entity relationships such that Customers value our premium finance services and we achieve superior, sustainable financial returns. This position requires strong business analysis, technical and functional writing skills along with the ability to apply proven project management, communication and problem-solving skills to maximize the benefit of IT systems, practices and procedures in an Agile development environment. This role will carry the expectation to absorb and retain information quickly, specifically complex functional and technical information.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop written specifications about the organization’s business systems to be read by both technical and non-technical personnel across all departments.
• Liaise with internal and external customers to define business procedures and establish documentation needs.
• Analyze customer requests and prepare technical documentation for software development.
• Analyze IT project requirements to determine types of documents needed.
• Collaborate with systems and development staff to collect and interpret technical information.
• Communicate process changes, enhancements, project status and modifications to management, peers, staff, vendors and other Associates so that issues can be resolved.
• Plan, organize and manage multiple projects including:
  • Creating Project Work plans.
  • Identifying resources, making assignments and reporting progress.
  • Applying methodology and enforcing project standards to minimize exposure and risk.
  • Ensuring project documentation through all phases of the project.
• Provide Legendary Service to all Customer inquiries (external and internal) by responding promptly and thoroughly to all requests.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Minimum 3 years of experience managing IT projects
• Experience with agile and waterfall development philosophies
• Proficient with PowerPoint, Visio and MS Project
• Strong experience in writing technical documents for developer use.
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to work independently once assigned a task
• Highly self-motivated and willing to tackle new challenges

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS:

College graduate