Senior Product Owner at Leadway Assurance Company

Role Description

• We are a leading insurance organization developing next-generation line of business applications for General, Life and Health Insurance. As a Product Owner, you will define and prioritize product features for a multi-tenant, cloud-native insurance platform, focusing on policy, claims, reinsurance, and advanced analytics integrations, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs.
• You will act as the bridge between stakeholders and the development team, translating business requirements into actionable user stories.
• Your leadership will guide the product lifecycle from ideation to delivery, ensuring timely releases and high-quality outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Vision & Roadmap: Define and communicate the product vision and roadmap in alignment with strategic goals.
• Backlog Management: Create, prioritize, and refine the product backlog to ensure clarity and focus for the development team.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Gather requirements and feedback from business units, end users, and technical teams.
• Sprint Planning & Review: Participate in Agile ceremonies, ensuring deliverables meet acceptance criteria.
• Market & User Research: Conduct research to understand user needs and market trends.
• Quality Assurance: Collaborate with QA teams to ensure product quality and performance.

Job Dimensions Reporting Relationships: Jobs that report to this position directly and indirectly

Direct Reports

• I.T Analyst  Graduate Trainees

Indirect Reports

• Interns (NYSC Interns and Academic Interns)
• Contract Staff

Stakeholder Management:

• Key stakeholders that the position holder will need to liaise/work with to be successful in this role.

Internal

• I.T department
• Various functional heads within the business division
• Business & End Users across the entity

External

• Vendors

Qualifications & Work Experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or related field.
• Certification in Product Ownership or Agile (e.g., CSPO, SAFe PO/PM) preferred.

Experience

• 5+ years in product ownership or business analysis roles in tech or insurance sectors.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Leadway Assurance Core Values Behaviours (ISCORE)

• Integrity Honesty, probity and uncompromised service consistently at all levels and with all stakeholders.
• Service A desire to help or meet the needs of others. The ability to respond to the changing needs of the customer while maintaining a high standard of quality.

Customer Focus

• Customer Focus is the willingness and ability to give priority to customers, delivering high quality services which meet their needs.
• Openness Objective, Honest and direct in communicating feelings and stance on any issue that would help advance a circumstance or issue.

Respect for Individual

• The ability to hold each and every stakeholder in high esteem, and value their input in service/product development and delivery.
• Excellence To continuously seek to provide exceptional product and service to support aspiration for life and business with high impact results.

Ideal Job competencies

• Good execution skills
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements
• Familiarity with insurance systems and digital platforms

Behavioral Competencies

• Customer-Centric
• Mindset Prioritizes user needs and business value in every decision. Advocates for the customer throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring solutions are intuitive, impactful, and aligned with user expectations.
• Strategic Visioning
• Balances short-term deliverables with long-term product goals.
• Thinks holistically about the product ecosystem and aligns features with broader business objectives and market trends.
• Team Collaboration Builds strong relationships with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, QA, and business stakeholders.
• Facilitates alignment and fostersa shared understanding of priorities and goals.
• Continuous Learning Demonstrates a proactive commitment to personal and professional growth by staying current with industry trends, tools, and best practices.