Surety Product Owner
- Mississauga, ON, Canada
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Original job description
We are looking for an experienced Surety Product Owner to work with business stakeholders, product leaders, business analysts, and Agile engineering teams to deliver business capabilities across the Surety platform.
🔹 Key Responsibilities:
- Work with underwriting, operations, billing, and product teams to gather business requirements.
- Understand the Surety bond lifecycle, including new business, renewals, cancellations, and reinstatements.
- Translate business requirements into features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Manage and prioritize product backlogs based on business needs.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and PI Planning.
- Collaborate with developers, QA, and architects on APIs, system integrations, billing, and premium calculations.
- Support integration testing, defect resolution, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
🔹 Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Minimum 2 years of experience in Surety, Commercial Insurance, Specialty Insurance, or a related business domain.
- Minimum 2 years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Analyst, or similar role.
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Experience writing user stories, features, and acceptance criteria.
- Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence.
- Basic understanding of APIs, JSON, data flows, and system integrations.
- Strong communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.
- Knowledge of Surety bonds, underwriting, rating, and billing is preferred.
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Responsibilities
Gather requirements from underwriting, operations, billing, and product stakeholders, and translate them into features, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Prioritize the product backlog, participate in Agile ceremonies, and collaborate with engineering and QA teams on integrations, testing, defect resolution, and UAT.
Requirements
Requires at least two years of experience in Surety, Commercial Insurance, Specialty Insurance, or a related domain, and at least two years in a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Analyst, or similar role. Candidates should have Agile/Scrum experience, hands-on Jira and Confluence skills, basic knowledge of APIs, JSON, data flows, and integrations, and strong communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.
Skills
- Surety Bond Lifecycle
- Product Ownership
- Business Analysis
- Agile/Scrum
- Requirements Gathering
- User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
- Product Backlog Management
- Jira
- Confluence
- APIs
- JSON
- System Integrations
- Stakeholder Management
- Underwriting
- Billing
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Finance & Accounting
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Surety
- Surety Bonds
- Commercial Insurance
- Specialty Insurance
- Product Owner
- Business Analysis
- Product Analysis
- Agile
- Scrum
- Jira
- Confluence
- User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
- Product Backlog
- Underwriting
- Bond Lifecycle
- Renewals
- Cancellations
- Reinstatements
- Billing
- Premium Calculations
- APIs
- JSON
- Data Flows
- System Integrations
- Sprint Planning
- Backlog Refinement
- PI Planning
- Integration Testing
- User Acceptance Testing