Verisk Underwriting Solutions, Core Lines, is redefining our customer experience. Our Reimagine program is focused on modernizing our Forms, Rules and Loss Cost product and enabling delivering through a digital platform, enabling consumption and integration into customer workflows.

The Digital Product Owner plays a critical role in our software delivery by driving the release process and improvements for our Core Lines Platform software regularly, reliably, and with high quality. You’ll work in a matrixed environment improving our development and deployment processes. Candidate will plan, coordinate, and execute software releases. The candidate will be someone who enjoys squashing inefficiencies in a development process, improving the deployment experience for everyone in the software organization. This role reports directly to the Vice President, Core Lines Platform.

Coordinates a global staff with the following roles: Digital Product Owners; Developers; Manual and Automatic Testing; Analytics; Content

• Strategy and Collaboration

  • Build business requirements and use cases to ensure that the short and long-term content strategy aligns with defined user personas and effectively addresses customer needs.
  • Translate needs into strong epics and stories that can be easily understood by the Development team.
  • Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Ensure that the end result meets what was intended and flag risks.
  • Champion end-users and ensure that features deliver customer value.
  • Partner with UX to assist in translating end-user needs into new product features for the Development team to design.
  • Be knowledgeable about the product, its potential market value, its importance to Verisk and its role.
  • Participate in all aspects of Agile process including sprint planning and retrospective meetings to ensure efficient development cycles and prioritized features based on business and customer needs.

• Solutions and Stakeholder Management

  • Encourage collaboration among matrix team members.
  • Problem solve and remove blockers. Operationally coordinate the approach and output of a matrix team of experts, keeping short and long term goals in mind and adjusting as needed.
  • Ensure product descriptions used for marketing emails and presentations are legal and accurate.
  • Conduct and use data driven research
  • Assess team progress as the build moves into each new phase of the creative lifecycle.

• Change Management

  • Create and maintain necessary documentation related to processes, content, and guidelines.

  • Partner with other product owners and platform leads to ensure seamless integration into the Core platform.

  • Manage expectations and feedback, act as a bridge to stakeholders to ensure effective communication of product updates and milestones.

We value the following:

• Trust-based relationship with the team.

  • Curious – Asks good questions, observes, takes notes of what motivates team members
  • Ability to connect to the bigger picture.
  • Involves the right people in decision making.
  • Ability to give feedback for growth, coach, sponsor, and support digital product owners.

• Leads and drives a culture of trust and continuous improvement on teams.

  • Builds trust and a structure around which we collaborate.
  • Removes blockers – Setting up escalation paths for people.
  • Continuously improves via post-mortems, code reviews, retrospectives, mentoring, technical debt reduction
  • C reates a high-performance, transparent environment focused on accountability and results.

• Leads organisational change.

  • Advocates for change to improve larger structures around the team and the department.
  • Manages his/her own manager (manage up).
  • Builds frameworks and standards – While it is always important to make room for individual needs, structures and frameworks for managers help us hold each other accountable.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (or related experience) in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 4+ years’ experience leading squad and chapter teams in an Agile development environment.

• 4+ years of work experience with content or B2B, process transformation and web platforms.

• Excellent project management and communication skills.

• Experience establishing and gaining cross-functional and leadership alignment on a technology product vision, roadmap, and implementation plan in a matrixed organization.

• Ability to effectively document business requirements into articulate functional requirements to ensure alignment on stated business objectives across teams.

• Attention to detail and ability to manage complex compliance requirements.

• Entrepreneurial spirit and courage to challenge the status quo to develop innovative and focused approaches.

• Regular measurement of results and pivoting based on our test and learn strategy.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to connect with senior leaders.

• Comfortable working in a highly collaborative and results-driven environment within a growing business unit where we are concurrently learning & building as we drive towards product launch.

• Demonstrated understanding of the legal, regulatory, privacy, and compliance requirements within the insurance industry

For over 50 years, Verisk has been the leading data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry by delivering value to our clients through expertise and scale. We empower communities and businesses to make better decisions on risk, faster.

At Verisk, you'll have the chance to use your voice and build a rewarding career that's as unique as you are, with work flexibility and the support, coaching, and training you need to succeed.

For the eighth consecutive year, Verisk is proudly recognized as a Great Place to Work® for outstanding workplace culture in the US, the fourth consecutive year in the UK, Spain, and India, and the second consecutive year in Poland. In addition, we’ve been recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best-Managed Companies and by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer, testaments to the value we place on workplace culture.

We’re 7,000 people strong. We relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation. And we are looking for people like you to help us translate big data into big ideas. Join us and create an exceptional experience for yourself and a better tomorrow for future generations.

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Catastrophe and Risk Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to catastrophic events.

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing,relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

Verisk invests in a benefits package for all employees that includes the following: Health Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Disability benefits, and a Paid Time Off program. We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes base salary determined based on role, experience, skill set, and location.

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