Product Owner / Sr. Product Owner

Orion180 Insurance Services, LLC is looking for a Product Owner / Sr. Product Owner to support its Innovation & Technology organization. In this onsite role in Irving, TX, you will work within a Scrum-based Value Stream pod to ensure business requirements are translated into clear, build-ready work and driven through delivery with the right level of quality and stakeholder alignment.

What you’ll do

• Serve as the subject-matter expert for a specific value stream, translating business requirements into well-defined user stories that development teams can execute.
• Partner with business stakeholders to capture requirements, collaborate with Tech Leads to ensure technical completeness, and work with delivery pods to support high-quality execution.
• Own backlog clarity, ordering, acceptance, and project quality for the value stream.
• Work directly with stakeholders to capture detailed requirements, understand business context, compliance implications, and user impact for each request.
• Translate requirements into user stories with specific, testable acceptance criteria, and maintain and prioritize the team backlog in Azure DevOps.
• Participate in story review with Tech Leads to confirm technical completeness, and flag stories for architecture review when architecture implications are identified.
• Accept completed work against acceptance criteria (Level 1 validation).
• For bug fixes that impacted stakeholders, follow up after deployment for stakeholder confirmation (Level 2).
• For new external-facing features, compliance changes, and financial calculations, conduct formal UAT with stakeholders (Level 3).
• For compliance-flagged work, confirm filing dates, effective dates, and regulatory deadlines.
• Build delivery timelines backward from hard deadlines and track progress throughout the delivery cycle.
• Provide progress updates, sprint demos, and release communications to business stakeholders, maintaining transparency on delivery status and timeline changes.
• Report to the Value Stream Owner.

What you bring

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent insurance industry or software product experience (minimum 2 years).
• Strong ability to dive into business processes, ask the right questions, and produce precise requirements.
• Excellent written documentation skills, including producing clear, detailed user stories and business requirements documents.
• Proven ability to engage stakeholders, clarify priorities, and gain alignment across business and technical teams.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or similar agile tools for backlog management.
• Familiarity with insurance operations, products, or technology is strongly preferred.
• Comfort learning new systems, APIs, and data flows to build domain expertise for the value stream.
• CSPO, PSPO, or SAFe Product Owner certification preferred.

How the team works

• Work in a self-contained Value Stream pod that includes assigned development and QA resources, a Delivery Lead, Product Owner, and Value Stream Owner.
• Some cross-organization initiatives may also include support from a shared Project Manager for coordination across teams.
• The value stream primarily uses Scrum practices, with a hybrid delivery approach when needed.

Tools and frameworks

• Azure DevOps
• Scrum
• CSPO
• PSPO
• SAFe

Compensation and benefits

• Competitive base pay and performance bonuses.
• Medical, dental, vision, 401k, paid holidays, PTO and more!
• Mentorship, growth tracks, and professional development.

Role levels (Sr Product Owner vs. Product Owner)

• Sr Product Owner: Owns the full requirements lifecycle for a value stream including stakeholder management, acceptance authority, and mentoring POs (minimum 5+ years in Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar roles). Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder requirements across regulatory and technical domains, act as a final quality gate for stories entering sprints (Definition of Ready authority), mentor and support Product Owners, and manage cross-Value Stream dependencies for release readiness and hybrid delivery documentation support as needed.
• Product Owner: Owns story writing, backlog management, and acceptance for assigned work within a value stream under the Sr PO’s guidance (minimum 2+ years in Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar roles). Focuses on growing into full ownership of the requirements lifecycle through collaboration, improved story quality and acceptance criteria clarity, stronger project requirement detail, and consistent stakeholder communication.

Onsite schedule and physical requirements

• Must be willing and able to work the regularly assigned work schedule onsite, and be able to work an extended schedule when needed based on company or departmental needs, project requirements, or customer demands.
• Regularly required to sit, stand, and/or walk around (including stairs).
• Ability to communicate openly with others through talking, listening, comprehending, and reading; lift light objects (<25 lbs); and use standard office equipment such as computers, printers, and phones.
• Occasional need to bend, twist, or squat down to open/close cabinets and reach for files or other standard office-type objects.
• Equal Opportunity Employer statement. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process; applicants who need accommodations may email [email protected].

Action required

• Complete a brief assessment to provide insight into work style preferences and alignment with the role and team.
• The assessment takes approximately 20 minutes and must be completed prior to your scheduled screening time.
• Assessment access: TRAITS Assessment.