Product Owner
Akkodis is seeking a – “IT Product Owner” for a Contract position with a client located in Remote. Pay Range: $60 - $70/hr. (The rate/salary may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.).
Overview
We're looking for a Product Owner to join our Distribution Independent Agent (IA) Sales Experience Portfolio and help build a best-in-class Quoting application for our home product line. This is a high-impact role at the center of a critical strategic initiative: delivering the tools our independent agents need to sell our enhanced home products. You'll own the enhancement backlog for our New Quote & Issue agent experience, ensuring every update keeps pace with our evolving product portfolio and keeps agents equipped to sell with confidence. Key Responsibilities: Own prioritization and management of the Home enhancement product backlog for the New Quote & Issue agent experience Partner closely with experience and technology teams to translate new Home product launches into agent-experience updates, identifying pain points and opportunities to streamline how agents utilize our system. Stay ahead of emerging trends and technologies to continuously improve ease-of-doing-business metrics. Help maintain delivery momentum and support issue resolution across the squad. Support the launch and stabilization of new end-to-end quote flows in market. Day to Day Expectations: With your aligned engineering squad/team, contributes towards achieving assigned product KPIs. Manages product(s) with a low-medium degree of strategy, scope, and complexity. Owns and maintains the product backlog and is accountable for its contents, prioritization, and acceptance criteria. Accountable for clear, actionable user stories. Sets priorities and actively participates in squad/team quarterly planning. With support, sets expectations with stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities. Participates in squad/team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies. Works daily with the Agile working group clarifying business requirements, removing roadblocks, constantly communicating, and supporting alignment around product strategy. Ideal candidate will have Product management or product owner experience in an Agile delivery environment. Personal Lines experience/familiarity Strong execution and organization skills. Experience writing clear user stories and acceptance criteria. Ability to facilitate or support Agile ceremonies. Strong communication skills and comfort working with cross-functional teams. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client. To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please visit Website Privacy Policy | Modis. The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable: · The California Fair Chance Act · Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance · Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers · San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance