About the Role
Your position as a Product Manager in the Product Management team will be responsible for contributing to the success of EES’ catastrophe modeling platform and products by participating in product planning, requirement development and implementation activities as we transition to a cloud-based SaaS platform. You will serve as product owner for one or more scrum teams involved in product development. You will interact with model developers, client support teams and EES clients and serve as a subject matter expert to help guide product development.
About the Day to Day Responsibilities of the Role
- Independent product owner for one or more scrum teams, including:
- Maintaining the team backlog and ticket prioritization and maintenance.
- Working with Product Manager/SME on use case development and user story creation;
- Driving new features to definitions of ready (DOR) and ensuring team deliverables meet the minimum definition of done (DOD);
- Remove obstacles to enable the scrum team to maintain a high team velocity.
- Assist SMEs with managing features internally and externally, including working directly with internal/external stakeholders and external customers to understand client workflows, product needs and competitive landscape.
- Bring your expertise in CAT modelling and Product Management to help identify product gaps as well as opportunities to improve product position in the market. Perform market research and discover problems in the market (in select functional area) by interviewing customers, recent evaluators and untapped potential customers. Validate problems to show their pervasiveness in the market.
- Collaborate with software developers, sales, consulting, researchers and subject matter experts – while developing expertise in understanding the use of catastrophe models and risk analyses.
- Assist Consulting team in investigating and resolving issues reported in AIR product
QUALIFICATIONS
- 8+ years software product consulting, product owner, project management, or business analysis experience with a proven track record of successfully releasing software products. Prefer experience in the CAT modeling space.
- Demonstrated business analysis experience for software development including requirements management, use case development; experience with project management and Agile software development methodologies.
- Experience working with catastrophe modeling software applications a plus.
- Good understanding of insurance and/or reinsurance industry, including related exposure data, financial terms and catastrophe modeling workflows a plus.
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex projects, including Agile product owner experience. Demonstrated ability to meet challenging schedule, scope and quality objectives.
- Strong analytical skills, quantitative and problem-solving ability;
- Experience developing SaaS products;
- Self-motivated and quick learner, with good organization and time management skills; can work independently
- Good presentation and written communication skills
- BS degree in technical (e.g., engineering, science, math, computer science, statistics or closely related program of study) or business fields. Advanced degree preferred.
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