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At Aviva, we are embarking on an exciting journey to transform our Personal Insurance broker business with our move to Guidewire. We are looking for passionate people with an innovative approach that want to deliver the best outcomes for our customer and brokers. If you’re ready to join us on this journey, we want to hear from you!
As the Connectivity Product Owner (PO), you will lead a cross-functional pod to build integrations between Guidewire, our Broker and MGA systems. This individual will own end-to-end decisions and outcomes. The PO is responsible for leading dependencies with other workstream functions while identifying, building, and managing strategic partnerships across the different teams. They will work closely with their pod and key collaborators to ensure business value and user feedback is translated into features to be delivered. The PO will be accountable for delivering objectives and key results related to their products.
The PO must have excellent leadership skills and believe in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. Finally, the PO should be comfortable with full ownership and accountability as they focus on delivering exceptional broker and business results.
What you'll do:Own, maintain the backlog and prioritize the day-to-day work based on features that deliver high value and maximum automation for their workstream
Set ambitious, clear product vision; communicate it effectively to key partners and team
Guide and contribute to the end-to-end team output from inception to production
Collaborate with partners to ensure Broker Connectivity vision aligns with overall program strategy
Responsible for workstream objectives and key results, and regular tracking/communication to partners
Align with other POs to ensure interfaces to other Products and common objectives and key results are maintained
Understand the financial impact of team and Product related decisions
Define and implement metrics to monitor solutions once in production
Work closely with design to integrate usability studies, testing and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction
Connectivity:
Prioritize connectivity scope to ensure the highest value epics are delivered to drive ease of doing business for Brokers
Manage business relationship with vendors for the project to ensure vendor delivery meets business need
Ensure build factors in future speed to market and APIs are built with no to low effort for BAU change
What you'll bring:Undergraduate degree
CIP or FCIP designation preferred
5-10 years personal insurance industry experience
3+ years leadership experience
Solid knowledge of P&C insurance and Home & auto insurance products
Strong business acumen and proven ability to collaborate with key collaborators at all levels of the organization
Familiarity with tech systems / IT, able to engage in discussion with each tech team to understand risks
Familiarity with agile principles from experience as a Product Owner or a similar position
Connectivity experience required
Strong communication & leadership skills, comfortable speaking with partners and influencing others
Ability to lead, prioritize work, and inspire a cross-functional team to achieve the joint mission
Strong problem-solving skills, ability to drive a solution and monitor its progress
Ability to build, own and articulate end-to-end conversion strategy; define scope and roadmap from ideation to release
Ability to clearly express the connections between larger business goals & specific backlog items for the team
Ability to influence decision-makers and manage partners to achieve the Product mission
Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust throughout the team
Execution-focused, player/coach, and not afraid to "roll up their sleeves" & get out of their comfort zone to learn – inspires their team to do the same
What you’ll get:Compelling rewards package including base compensation, eligibility for annual bonus, retirement savings, share plan, health benefits, personal wellness, and volunteer opportunities.
Outstanding Career Development opportunities.
We’ll support your professional development education.
Competitive vacation package with the option to purchase 5 extra days off per year
Employee driven programs focused on gender, LGBTQ+, origins, diversity and inclusion
Corporate wellness programs to support our employees’ physical and mental health
Hybrid flexible work model
Please note that we may use AI tools to help us through the recruitment process. This is a new position which has been posted both internally & externally.
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