Principal Product Owner

About FM: FM is a 190-year-old, Fortune 500 commercial property insurance company of 6,000+ employees with a unique focus on science and risk engineering. Serving over a quarter of the Fortune 500 and major corporations globally, they deliver data-driven strategies that enhance resilience, ensure business continuity, and empower organizations to thrive. Principal Product Owner This role will provide leadership and innovation in building and managing key mission critical business technology products. The role will directly or indirectly lead a team of software engineers and technology professionals to drive and deliver valuable products and co-create outstanding experiences. It will be defining, prioritizing, and managing product backlogs while striving for timely delivery, representing the interest of the customer and key business partners and stakeholders to our teams, and driving our product vision. Works under the guidance of a Product Owner on defining and prioritizing the product backlog while striving for timely delivery. Works closely with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), operations and business staff teams with strong business domain knowledge and participates in all product team ceremonies. Partners across functions as needed to coordinate delivery plans, testing, training, implementation, and support. Influences and partners with a product team (10 software engineers, technology professionals, and UX designers) to deliver valuable, quality, and timely product features and capabilities in alignment with business and technology operational excellence. Assists with gaining commitment to implementation. Ensures delivery of scope, partners with operations users, subject matter experts, and business teams to ensure user stories are clear. Acts as the “voice of the customer” jointly with the journey product owner. Helps the PO with representing the customer and stakeholders to our teams. Participates in team demos and retrospectives to validate quality and provide feedback to the team to improve team processes. Assists the PO with product team backlog grooming, prioritization, and refinement. Sets the quality standard for delivery and develops and executes test plans (user story acceptance criteria) Assists with gaining commitment to implementation. Skill and Experience: ~7 to 9 years of experience required to perform essential job functions. ~ Additional Experience Qualifier (optional) : Minimum of 5 years’ experience in business, product management, software development, technology and/or consulting. Knowledge of Commercial property insurance is highly preferred. Must have exceptional planning, analytical, decision-making, organization, communication, and teamwork skills, as well as strong commercial insurance knowledge with the ability to influence others and build consensus. Strong communication and collaboration skills, solid analytical and problem-solving skills, the ability to drive projects towards completion, and the ability to work with all levels of team members and leadership. Intermediate skills in Excel and PowerPoint. Knowledge and/or experience working with systems or product management is a plus Analytical & Project Leadership: Solid problem-solving skills and the ability to drive projects to completion. Creative mindset with a willingness to experiment and learn continuously. Technical Product Leadership: Capable of leading mission-critical technology products to deliver business value. Intermediate-level skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. 4 Year / Bachelors Degree