Innovate Consulting is seeking a Product Owner for an insurance company! This position is onsite 5 days a week in either Melbourne, FL or Irving, TX!  

You will work in a self-contained Value Stream pod that includes assigned development and QA resources, a Delivery Lead, Product Owner, and Value Stream Owner. Some cross-organization initiatives may also include support from a shared Project Manager for coordination across teams. The Value Stream primarily uses Scrum practices with a hybrid delivery approach when needed. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO: 

• 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. Make sure stories include the "what" and "why" so technical teams can determine the "how." 
• Backlog Management: Maintain and prioritize the team backlog in Azure DevOps. Make sure stories are groomed, well-defined, and sequenced by business value. 
• Technical Collaboration: Partner with Tech Leads during story review to confirm 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. 

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR: 

• 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. 

ROLE LEVELS: 

This role is hired at two levels based on experience and scope: 

Sr Product Owner: Owns the full requirements lifecycle for a value stream including stakeholder management, acceptance authority, and mentoring POs. 

• Minimum 5+ years in Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar roles. 
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder requirements across regulatory and technical domains. 
• Serves as the final quality gate for all stories entering sprints (Definition of Ready authority). 
• Mentors and supports Product Owners on story quality, stakeholder engagement, and domain expertise. 
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-Value Stream dependencies, drive release readiness, and support hybrid delivery documentation as needed. 

Product Owner: Owns story writing, backlog management, and acceptance for assigned work within a value stream under the Sr PO's guidance. 

• Minimum 2+ years in Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or similar roles. 
• Strong story writing and backlog management skills. 
• Works under the Sr PO's guidance on prioritization and stakeholder management. 
• Growing into full ownership of the requirements lifecycle. Strong collaboration within the Value Stream and consistent improvement in story quality, acceptance criteria clarity, project requirement details, and stakeholder communication.