Product Owner

Alacrity Solutions
Product Owner

About Alacrity Solutions
Alacrity Solutions is a full end-to-end provider delivering streamlined insurance claims, repair, and recovery solutions. As one of the largest independent providers of insurance claims services in North America, we provide property, auto, heavy equipment, and casualty claims management services. Our staffing capabilities, temporary housing services, managed repair network, and subrogation services support a fully integrated solution for all your needs from first notice of loss through completion of repairs. By assembling the best service providers through strategic acquisitions and relying on the right talent, Alacrity Solutions provides consistent, professional, and scalable services throughout the entire claim handling and resolution process. To learn more, visit www.AlacritySolutions.com.

Summary/objective
The Product Owner leads product development initiatives, working closely with key stakeholders and an agile team of developers to manage and prioritize software development efforts.  They are essential to coordinating software development activities, ensuring that development aligns with business goals and strategies. 

The ideal candidate will possess a blend of excellent communication skills, business acumen, and technical knowledge to translate business needs into technical solutions and manage the product lifecycle from conception to release. 

Essential functions (Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.)

• Work with all levels of business to define and interpret business needs, create user stories, and validate requirements. Overseeing the development of new software features and applications from inception to release. 
• Collaborate with the Lead Software Engineer to ensure that stories are complete, feasible, and conform to technical standards.
• Create, prioritize, and manage the product backlog, ensuring that it reflects customer needs and company goals.
• Act as a liaison between stakeholders and the development team, facilitating communication and confirming alignment of business priorities and sprint progress.
• Participate in sprint planning, ensuring that the technical team fully understands requirements and the supporting business logic.  Acting as an informed user advocate within the development team.
• Promote timely delivery of features and enhancements by providing clear requirements, removing obstacles in a timely manner, making informed decisions, and escalating blockers to leadership for resolution during development.
• Participates in Quality Assurance and User Acceptance testing of solutions to ensure features and functions requested have been enabled and optimized prior to release.
• Lead and communicate the release plan, create release notes, and providing additional documentation as requested. 

Competencies
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years of experience in product management or as a product owner or project manager in an Agile environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex business needs into actionable written requirements.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Experience with data analysis and using customer feedback to drive product decisions.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks effectively.
• Willingness to adapt work hours to address critical needs.

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• N/A

Physical & Mental Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sit for long periods of time.
  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and use hands to handle or feel.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret reports, and documents, respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. 
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, interpret technical instructions and deal with abstract and concrete variables.

Travel required

• Less than 5%.

Job Specifics:

• Remote role
• Full-Time (M-F, 8am-5pm) additional hours as projects require

Starting salary range:

• $75,000-$105,000

Required education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, software engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of ten (10) years’ professional coding experience.

Preferred education and experience

• N/A

Additional eligibility requirements

• N/A

Why Choose Alacrity?:

• Benefits Package including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Short- and Long-Term Disability, Life Insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program
• HSA Bank with selection of High Deductible Health Plan
• 401K plan options
• Paid Time Off- to include flex time and a sick time bank
• Paid Holidays

Affirmative Action/EEO statement
Alacrity is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All decisions pertaining to an employee’s employment are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, pregnancy, childbirth), gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, reproductive health decisions, veteran’s status, genetic information, creed, marital status, disability, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, and training. Alacrity Solutions makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For more information, please refer to our EEO policy.
Other duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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