Product Owner Guidewire

The Product Owner will take ownership of PolicyCenter and Product Definition, working closely with business stakeholders, Business Analysts, configuration developers and other members of a distributed Agile delivery team., * Take Product Ownership for Guidewire PolicyCenter / Product Definition

• Define and prioritise business and functional requirements
• Build, maintain and prioritise the product backlog
• Translate requirements into clear user stories together with the Business Analysts
• Drive scope and priorities throughout the different delivery phases
• Contribute to solution design and ensure alignment between business and technical teams
• Provide direction and partial leadership to the Scrum team
• Work closely with 3 - 4 Business Analysts and Guidewire configuration developers
• Coordinate with stakeholders and project team members across multiple locations
• Support the upcoming inception phase and subsequent build and delivery activities, * Greenfield Guidewire Cloud implementation
• Focus on Commercial Insurance
• PolicyCenter and Product Definition at the core of the role
• Scrum team of approximately 10 people, including 3-4 Business Analysts and configuration developers
• International/distributed project environment
• First release currently moving into User Acceptance Testing
• Next release starts with an inception phase covering requirements, solution design and user-story backlog creation
• Earlier onboarding preferred to build project and policy knowledge ahead of the next major delivery phase

• Strong experience as a Product Owner within complex IT transformation programs
• Previous Guidewire experience, with PolicyCenter being particularly relevant
• Good understanding of insurance policy and product processes
• Strong experience with backlog management, requirements, prioritisation and user stories
• Insurance experience; Non-Life/ P&C experience is highly relevant
• Commercial Insurance experience is an advantage but not a strict requirement
• Strong Agile/Scrum experience
• Able to bridge business, functional and technical stakeholders
• Comfortable providing direction to a multidisciplinary and distributed Scrum team
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Professional working English