Product Owner Ii

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solution are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships.

Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success.

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

We are looking for a Product Owner II to fully understand and analyze both internal and external customer needs and then articulate those needs to the development team via user stories. As a product management team member embedded in energetic agile teams of Software and QA Engineers, you will serve as the interface between our customers and product managers and your development teams throughout the planning and software development process.

You will collaborate closely with product managers and internal and external customers to understand business processes and goals, and identify business problems that may be effectively resolved with technology solutions. You’ll working closely with Product Managers and others to elaborate requirements, document proposed software solutions, and maintain and groom a prioritized backlog of features and stories. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success and FUN. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make impact in your career.

**Qualifications**:

- We need Product Owners who:

- Have a strong analytic orientation and the ability to define problems, collect data, analyze data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
- Are eager to learn to understand business drivers, future customer needs and competitive challenges
- Collaborate with user experience design staff on software (web/mobile) designs,
- Thrive on responsibility and display a drive for results
- Enjoy having fun, making things happen, and dreaming big
- Work collaboratively with others to accomplish goals
- Demonstrate a flare for innovation and creativity
- Have strong time management and organizational skills
- Can communicate complex concepts to all levels of an organization and customers
- Write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals clearly and effectively
- Understand web and database technologies
- 2-4 years’ experience, preferably with business analysis for web-based software
- We love Product Owners who:

- Clearly communicate and defend their ideas strategies
- Have a passion for product quality
- Have experience design skills
- Are driven to improve, personally and professionally
- Operate best in a fast-paced and flexible work environment
- Are experienced with agile methodologies and understand the role of the product owner
- We really like it when they:

- Share best practices that inspire everyone around them to raise the bar
- Have experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

**THE VERTAFORE STORY**

Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight— right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.

**The Vertafore Way**

Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.
- **Bias to Action**:We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.
- **Win Together**:We work together as one team, showing empathy and respect along the way.
- **Show Up Curious**:We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.
- **Say It, Do It**: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.
- **Customer Success is Our Success**:We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by active