Product Owner

External Description

Reach beyond with Liberty IT; for this is where you’ll find the super challenges, where you’ll be given the scope and the support to go further, dig deeper and fly higher.   

We won’t stand over your shoulder. We won’t get in your way. We certainly won’t hold you back. You’ll bring the expertise. We’ll provide the platform to succeed.  

Ready?   

It’s time to do your thing.   

Who you’ll be working with: We are seeking a dedicated and driven Product Owner. In this role, you will play a critical part in our efforts to maintain the competitiveness of our legacy products while simultaneously focusing on new offerings that assess financial loss and risk.

Experience and skills we need:  

• 3 years’ experience in partnering with agile software development teams to create solutions, software, or products with a focus on delivering business value through partnering with customers, stakeholders, or end users.  

• Knowledge of a product mindset and in guiding agile software development teams through Design Thinking, Impact Mapping, or alternative product related techniques. 
• Have facilitated and conducted product discovery or user research. 
• Have conducted backlog grooming, feature prioritisation, UAT, and communicating business value activities. 
• Experienced in being embedded in a software engineering team and undertaking tasks such as breaking down epics (or similar) to user stories, using JIRA
• Stakeholder engagement with Business Agility team and UX to analyse product vision/roadmap and received epics to agree on prioritsation.
• Backlog management, prioritisation and refinement.
• Product approach – applying values to backlog items to help with prioritisation and demonstration of value

Experienced in being embedded in a software engineering team and undertaking tasks such as breaking down epics (or similar) to user stories, using JIRA

Experience and skills we’d love:  

We’ve included some further skills and experience that would be great. However, don’t rule yourself out if you haven’t had the opportunity to develop these yet, we have a learning culture at Liberty IT so we will support your career growth with us.  

• Industry recognised Product related certifications or qualifications.  

• Have worked with software development teams building software products and solutions for large business organisations.  
• Establishing product visions/roadmaps – for the purposes of knowledge transfer to Business Agility only.
• Experience in a SAFe programme

What you’ll be doing:  

• Deliver business value to our customers through successful product delivery in line with the business unit strategic vision and objectives.  
• Collaborate closely with the Business Agility Group, including Senior Business Analysts and Product Owners, to understand and break down initial Epics into actionable deliverables (stories).
• Support the development of the QBI underwriting program and assist with production support to ensure seamless operations.
• Analyze inherited requirements from the defined Epic and Product Roadmap, collaborating with the Business Agility Group on prioritization and ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Engage with engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to stay informed on progress and facilitate effective communication.
• Drive product focus on legacy maintenance while evaluating and enhancing new products and services.
• Manage KPIs, backlog prioritization, and demonstrate the value delivered to stakeholders, with limited autonomy in roadmap definition.

• Working with multiple stakeholders, contribute to the development and evolution of the product roadmap that the team will be responsible for delivering. Champion a product mindset with the business and development teams.  

• Have a strong understanding of the business unit strategic vision and communicate this with perspective customers. Collaborate with customers to discover their business problems and identify product solutions to meet these needs.    

• Working in an agile manner, nurture strong working partnerships with business stakeholders and encourage the team to become closer to the Customer / Stakeholders  

• Implement usability and feedback metrics to validate the successful delivery of business value to the customer. Evaluate, communicate and adjust the metrics as required.  

• Maintain a user story backlog to enable the delivery team to create MVP solutions to add customer value incrementally and quickly. Communicate and detail user stories through backlog refinement sessions with the team.  

• Collaborate with the team on the design and technical approach to the delivery of a prioritized backlog.    

• Support the team to remove roadblocks that prevent team delivery of business value.  

• Partner and mentor with other team members and people across Liberty IT to grow your career.  

• Validate the product solution through exploratory testing on user stories and post implementation validation via user feedback. Demonstrate through validation how the value and vision of the solution are met.   

About Us

A little background on LIT 

Liberty IT is the tech wing of Liberty Mutual Insurance. Bringing peace of mind to all aspects of customer’s lives, every day.  

We’re an ideas company. Always. We thrive on engineering excellence and surpass with technical mastery. We build beautifully architected cloud solutions and reliably run high stability systems. We work alongside the best in the business and learn from the finest minds.   

Great Place to Work in UK & Ireland 2024

Best Workplaces for Women (UK) 2024 

Top 5 Best Tech Workplace  

Centre of Excellence in Wellbeing  

Fair employment and equal opportunities  

Liberty IT is an equal opportunity employer, committed to inclusion and diversity.  

If you have a disability, accommodations are available on request when taking part in all aspects of the recruitment, assessment, and selection process. 

Now, it’s over to you.  

If you’re ready to fly in your career, apply now.