FBS Product Owner

Our team delivers customer self-service functionality via the Farmers/Foremost/Bristol West Websites and Mobile Applications. As a Product Owner, you will collaborate with product managers, developers, architects, scrum master and business owners/SMEs to create and/or decipher features into user stories. You will follow through with development, some UAT, demo's, to ensure business needs are timely met. You will work in a SAFe Agile environment.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product managers, developers, architects, scrum master and business owners/SMEs to create and/or decipher features into user stories
• Follow through with development, some UAT, demo's, to ensure business needs are timely met
• Work in a SAFe Agile environment

Requirements:

• 1–3 years of experience in a corporate environment as a Junior Product Owner, Business Analyst, Junior Project Manager
• Industry Knowledge: Exposure to Insurance, FinTech, or E-commerce is a significant plus, as the role focuses on customer-facing self-service tools

Agile & Framework Proficiency

• SAFe Exposure: The candidate should understand Agile and how a development Sprint fits into a larger (PI) Program Increment plan
• Story Writing: Experience taking a Feature (high-level) and breaking it down into User Stories (detailed) with clear Acceptance Criteria
• Backlog Refinement: Ability to manage and prioritize a list of tasks so the development team always knows what to work on next

Technical & Tooling Skillset

• Rally: Having used Rally (or Jira/Azure DevOps) to move stories through a board is essential
• UX Collaboration (Figma): You don't need to be a designer, but you should be able to open and navigate Figma, leave comments, and ensure the developers are building what the designers envisioned
• UAT (User Acceptance Testing): Experience testing with a pre-release app or website to ensure it doesn't break and meets the business requirements

Soft Skills

• Translation: The ability to listen to a Business SME and translate that into requirements for developers
• Stakeholder Management: Confidence to lead a Demo where you show stakeholders what the team built during the sprint