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We are seeking Product Owner for Informative Research, a part of the Stewart family of companies. As a Product Owner, you will oversee the development of solutions from inception to launch and lead the enhancement of those solutions through a customer-centric and data-driven development framework. You will work closely with stakeholders, development teams, and customers to ensure that the final product meets the needs and preferences of our clients. You will help shape the overarching product strategy, contribute to the product roadmap, and manage the product backlog. This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Executive Vice President of Product Management.

Job Responsibilities

• Manages the product development process, ensuring that milestones are met and that the product is delivered on time and to specification

• Works closely with the development team throughout the product development process, providing deeply detailed business requirements, change requests, user interface mockups, and other documentation as necessary for clarification and direction

• Defines user stories and acceptance criteria and ensure they are clearly understood by the development team.

• Creates and prioritizes a product backlog, ensuring the team is working on the highest value features.

• Ensures that the product is user-friendly, scalable, and meets quality standards.

• Ensures product enhancement and new product development process is aligned with the client/industry needs, organizational resources, and current strategies.

• Provides leadership and direction through managers, supervisors and/or individual contributors

• Accountable for the performance and results of a defined product category

• Applies broad industry knowledge and business acumen to drive financial performance

• Directs the resolution of highly complex or unusual business problems applying advanced critical thinking

• Recognized as a Product Subject Matter Expert when engaging with and advising senior leaders across the business

• Contributes to the development of functional/ operational long-term strategy and the development of annual business plans

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or similar certification preferred

Experience

• 3-5 years of experience as a Product Owner or similar role in the Information Services or Financial Services industry.
• Strong understanding of software development processes and methodologies, such as Agile and Scrum.
• Experience working in Atlassian Confluence and Jira or similar project management and development collaboration tools.
• Experience with B2B, Software-as-a-Service applications.
• Experience with cloud technologies and API development.
• Familiarity with user experience (UX) design principles

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