Senior Product Owner

Client Overview:
The Client provides comprehensive operational support and a range of expert services to the world’s leading insurers, brokers, fleet managers and automotive manufacturers. 3,300 employees across ten countries deliver exceptional standards on a large scale for over 1,200 clients. We help the global insurance market to handle millions of claims each year in the most cost-effective and efficient ways possible.
The Client is embarking on an exciting and challenging transformation program and our software solutions are a driving force behind this strategy using cloud computing and leading-edge design patterns.

Requirements:

- 5+ years as a Product Owner in a software development environment

- Strong requirements elicitation, analysis, and documentation across business, functional, and non-functional needs

- Hands-on experience writing clear user stories with acceptance criteria and managing/prioritizing a product backlog

- Experience working in Agile / Scrum / Kanban teams

- Proficiency with Jira (required) and Confluence (or comparable Agile and documentation tooling)

- Experience with Miro or similar collaboration/whiteboarding tools

- Familiarity with SaaS business models and cloud-based architectures, with a working understanding of AWS/Azure

- Understanding of REST APIs, integrations, and data flows

- Process mapping and modeling skills (BPMN, flow diagrams)

- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and workshop leadership

- Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Ability to work in a distributed, multi-timezone team (EU, UK)

- Excellent English communication skills, comfortable with both technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to Have:

- Experience with AI-assisted development and analysis tools (Copilot, Claude, Cursor)

- Background in enterprise / B2B SaaS, multi-tenant platforms, or large-scale portals

- Experience supporting a platform consolidation, migration, or feature-parity initiative

- Certification such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, or Agile/Scrum (CSM, SAFe) / Product Owner (CSPO)

- Experience with SQL or data querying tools

- Exposure to compliance or regulatory-driven environments (data privacy, security standards)

Responsibilities:

- Own, refine, and prioritize the product backlog for the portal feature-parity workstream

- Translate product vision and business objectives into clear, actionable user stories with acceptance criteria in Jira

- Elicit, analyze, and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements

- Facilitate requirements workshops, stakeholder interviews, and discovery sessions

- Lead and support sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release planning

- Ensure requirements traceability from business objective through to delivery

- Collaborate with engineering, UX, DevOps, and QA to clarify requirements and resolve ambiguities

- Document workflows, process diagrams, system interactions, and data flows

- Define KPIs and success metrics for new features and releases

- Support UAT planning and validation to confirm delivered functionality meets business intent

- Identify risks, dependencies, and impacts of proposed changes

- Engage with Client product and engineering counterparts in EU/UK on scope, integration points, and delivery milestones

- Participate in Agile ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, retros, demos)

We offer*:

- Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible

- A competitive salary and good compensation package

- Personalized career growth

- Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)

- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing

- Education reimbursement

- Memorable anniversary presents

- Corporate events and team buildings

- Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers