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# Lead Product owner-Irving

- **Company:** HireX Inc
- **Location:** Irving, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Microsoft Azure, Software Bug Management, Data Streaming
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/4e220277-6a82-486c-b526-ce8eda5b74b6

## About the Role

Education: Bachelor s degree or equivalent insurance industry or software product experience.

Analytical Skills: Strong ability to dig into business processes, ask the right questions, and produce precise requirements.

Documentation: Excellent written documentation skills. Ability to produce clear, detailed user stories and business requirements documents.

Communication: Proven ability to engage stakeholders, clarify priorities, and gain alignment across business and technical teams.

Tools: Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or similar agile tools for backlog management.

Insurance Knowledge: Familiarity with insurance operations, products, or technology is strongly preferred.

Technical Curiosity: Comfortable learning new systems, APIs, and data flows to become the domain expert for your stream.

CSPO, PSPO, or SAFe Product Owner certification preferred.

## Description

Requirements Gathering: Engage with business stakeholders to capture detailed requirements. Understand the business context, compliance implications, and user impact of every request.

Story Writing: Translate business requirements into clear, actionable user stories with specific, testable acceptance criteria. Ensure stories include the what and why so technical teams can determine the how.

Backlog Management: Maintain and prioritize the team backlog in Azure DevOps. Ensure stories are groomed, well-defined, and sequenced by business value.

Technical Collaboration: Partner with Tech Leads during story review to ensure technical completeness. If the Tech Lead identifies architecture implications, flag the story for architecture review.

Acceptance & Validation: Accept completed work against acceptance criteria (Level 1 validation). For bug fixes that impacted stakeholders, follow up post-deployment for stakeholder confirmation (Level 2). For new external-facing features, compliance changes, and financial calculations, conduct formal UAT with stakeholders (Level 3).

Compliance Tracking: For compliance-flagged work, confirm filing dates, effective dates, and regulatory deadlines. Build timelines backward from hard deadlines and track throughout the delivery cycle.

Stakeholder Communication: Provide progress updates, sprint demos, and release communications to business stakeholders. Maintain transparency on delivery status and timeline changes.

Continuous Improvement: Pursue Product Owner certification if not already held. Attend training to sharpen requirements gathering, story writing, and backlog management skills.


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