Product Owner

Job Overview:
**Make a Difference Every Day with Team Applied**
The people of Applied are making a difference every day through innovation and a commitment to help safeguard and protect what matters most. With first-to-market software, mobile and data analytics solutions, Applied is revolutionizing companies to strengthen their position as trusted advisors to clients across the world. Our core values challenge employees to make a difference every day with excellence for customers and support for the communities around us. We believe that success comes from a dynamic working environment that offers professionals an opportunity to grow and succeed alongside extraordinary people.

Learn how you can make a difference on Team Applied.

**Job Summary**
Applied Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in insurance technology, is currently searching for a
**Product Owner **to join our Agile software development team and help us explore, invent, develop, and deliver business products. In this role, you will act as a strong advocate for end users and customers with the goal of delivering substantially useful functionality to make insurance work better. Working with the guidance of our Product Managers, you will lead the definition of clear requirements and user stories to bring our (and your) product vision down to earth for execution. You will strive to deliver high-quality software products on time to market, in alignment with strategic goals while meeting the needs of our clients.

**Location-Bengaluru**

Additional responsibilities include:

- Collaborate with Product Managers to establish product release vision
- Lead your features through to completion, managing discovery and changes along the way
- Create, maintain, and continuously prioritize product and/or release backlogs, and conduct backlog grooming/refinement sessions with respective scrum team
- Ensures product backlog themes are addressed in the release backlog according to priority order
- Work with peer Product Owners regarding cross-team dependencies and appropriate scheduling and prioritization of dependent work
- Participate in all relevant sprint meetings, including daily meetings, sprint planning, review and retrospective sessions, as well as leads backlog grooming sessions
- Coordinate with our other teams (User Experience, Quality Assurance, Customer Support, etc.) in regard to your feature set
- Communicate with internal departments to understand and explain functional requirements
- Communicate with external customers on topics such as requirements gathering, product feedback, and production related issues

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in the areas of Information Science, Computer Science, or related disciplines
- Professional experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst in an Agile development environment
- 5+ years working on technology-powered products as a product owner
with APIs.
- Professional experience in gathering requirements, creating documentation, and user stories
- 5+ years working on technology-powered products as a product owner
with APIs and data platform products
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and persuasive skills, including the ability to communicate at all business levels
- Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, manage, and prioritize multiple projects
- Demonstrated ability working in a collaborative environment
- Demonstrated ability to think both strategically and tactically
- Innovative; inspires innovation in others through engagement and negotiation
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Ability to make smart feature (customer experience) versus time-to-market trade-offs
- Experience with Applied products, or experience in the insurance industry a plus

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