Product Owner

Remote Product Owner role with Howden Group Holdings, focused on evolving underwriting and rating platforms in Personal Lines, with a salary of USD 115,000–130,000 per year and a minimum of 5 years' experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the vision, strategy, and roadmap for underwriting and rating platforms.
• Partner with underwriting leadership and stakeholders to align product direction with company goals.
• Identify opportunities to optimize underwriting workflows, improve rating accuracy, and drive business value.
• Balance competing priorities to maximize product impact and ROI.
• Elicit, analyze, and document business and system requirements for new initiatives and enhancements.
• Translate complex business needs into user stories, process flows, and functional requirements.
• Define clear acceptance criteria to align business expectations with delivered solutions.
• Establish and promote best practices for requirements management and documentation.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog based on business value, data insights, and technical considerations.
• Collaborate with Agile teams to ensure stories are well-defined, understood, and ready for development.
• Lead or support Agile ceremonies including PI planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
• Track progress, manage risks, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality features.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, underwriting teams, and technical delivery teams.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions to gather input, drive consensus, and resolve issues.
• Partner with architects and engineers to ensure scalable, integrated solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
• Communicate product updates, priorities, and risks effectively to stakeholders and leadership.
• Ensure solutions meet business needs through strong validation practices and acceptance testing.
• Support and participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Continuously refine requirements and solutions based on stakeholder feedback and outcomes.
• Apply Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
• Identify and implement improvements to underwriting processes, systems, and user experience.
• Promote Agile and continuous improvement practices across teams.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of experience in Product Management, Business Analysis, or related roles, preferably in insurance technology.
• Strong understanding of underwriting, rating methodologies, and policy lifecycle.
• Experience working in Agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban).
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, Visio, or similar tools.
• Experience translating business needs into product requirements and delivering end-to-end solutions.
• Familiarity with integrations, APIs, and data flows.
• Demonstrated experience in process improvement (Lean, Six Sigma, etc.).
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills.

Technologies

• Azure DevOps
• JIRA
• Confluence
• Visio

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Wellbeing offers
• Competitive salary
• Unlimited PTO
• 401k with company match
• Paid volunteer days

EEO STATEMENT

We consider our people our chief competitive advantage and as such we treat colleagues, candidates, clients, and business partners with equality, fairness, and respect. DUAL North America provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or express