Product Owner

INSTANDA is the worlds first no code platform for Insurance. A pioneering Insurtech, we’re revolutionising the insurance industry by offering insurers a versatile tool to create, manage, and distribute digital insurance products. Our innovative technology empowers insurance carriers to adapt swiftly to market demands and navigate the evolving landscape. Our Technology is consistently recognised as the best policy administration platform for innovative insurers, winning awards in both the UK and US.

INSTANDA has grown significantly in recent years and we are now a team of 180+ employees based in the UK, EMEA and US, with partnerships that operate worldwide. We’re continuing to grow our business and our Product Strategy team is at the forefront of our growth plans.

Product Strategy is responsible for research, roadmap design and prioritisation of strategic deliveries on the INSTANDA platform, as well as use of our broad ecosystem.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Product Owner to join our Product Strategy team, to act as the voice of the client and key stakeholders during delivery of product changes, ensuring their needs are met.

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This role will work closely with stakeholders across the business, including Product Design, Architecture, Engineering, Client Delivery, Sales, Technical Presales and Account Management; as well as clients, partners and industry experts, acting as the voice of the client and champion of user value, whilst ensuring INSTANDA’s direction of travel remains aligned to our north start in delivery and development.

This role isUK based, primarily remote working with some travel required to our London Office.

What you will do:

Reporting to our Head of Product, you will be responsible for:

• Managing the product backlog and working collaboratively with stakeholders across the organisation to refine and priorities the Product backlog in line with evolving user needs and strategic objectives.
• Evaluate and determine scheduling for Engineering teams to support delivery in line with project phase goals and product goals.
• Deliver a world-class product by utilising excellent communication and leadership skills to actively and effectively interpret and translate requirements from clients or client-facing functions for/ to Product Design, Architecture and the wider Engineering community.
• Playing an active role in analysing and refining requirements, proposals, user stories, acceptance criteria and delivery details, maximising the value delivered by INSTANDA and ensuring that scope remains aligned to customer expectations and broader Product vision.
• Supporting the Head of Product in developing Product release plans, setting expectations for the delivery of new features and functionality, and engaging with internal and external stakeholders to explain direction of travel and resolve queries with priorities.
• Forging deep relationships with internal stakeholders across INSTANDA, ensuring overall Product strategy, Product goals and release goals are understood, translated and linked to purpose.
• Attending and making critical contributions to ceremonies (Refinement, Spring Planning, Sprint Review, Stand-Up, Retro); providing feedback and making priority decisions where required.
• Translating the Product roadmap for internal and external stakeholders and keeping them up to date with new product features and functionalities; leading and facilitating client user focus groups and customer conversations to ensure the voice of the customer remains central to INSTANDA’s product strategy
• Proactively identify and pursue opportunities for positive change, both within Product and across the wider business, champion a culture of continuous improvement and evolution.
• Building presence and visibility as a technical and functional point of expertise for the INSTANDA platform, its clients, users and target markers
• Support the Head of Product in strategic planning and with other ad-hoc assignments as may be required from time to time

Requirements

You will

• Have demonstrable experience (3+ years) as a Product Owner within SaaS and an Agile working environment.
• Have demonstrable experience of owning and refining a Product backlog and prioritising Product features.
• Be able to assess large data sets of information to draw conclusions about topics, issues and impact.
• Have some experience using JIRA or similar tools
• Have demonstrable experience determining, assessing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Have demonstrable experience of interpreting specific requirements into comprehensive rather than specific needs.
• Be self-driven to learn in detail how the INSTANDA platform works.
• Be able to balance stakeholder needs to/ with overall Product strategy.
• Be a proactive and consistent communicator with strong stakeholder management skills.

Desirable:

• A background in Financial Services or Insurance.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous 28 days holiday allowance, in addition to public holidays.
• For every year of service you complete, we’ll give you an additional days holiday (max. 5 days)
• One Dynamic Day per month on top of your holiday allowance to spend time doing the things you want to do or simply catching up with life admin.
• Freedom Pass work up to 4 weeks of the year from anywhere.
• FlexiBank you decide when to use your public holiday allocation.
• Remote & Hybrid approach varying with the nature of your role.
• Life cover; income protection and participation in the company pension scheme
• All employees are included in the company discretionary bonus scheme.
• £100 per month to put towards wellness activities.
• Annual learning & development allowance of £1,250 and free access to LinkedIn learning and Microsoft ESI learning platforms

About Us

Our company was built by looking at the world through a different lens and our culture today reflects that by encouraging you to be yourself, speak your mind, and share your opinions. We want people who want to push themselves, be part of something great, and be prepared to challenge if they think there is a better way. Collaboration sits at the heart of how we operate, it has fueled our growth enormously and our aim to be ‘world class'.

We want everyone to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process; if you require any additional adjustments please let us know. Visit instanda.com/careers for more information

INSTANDA has an in-house recruitment team, which focuses on sourcing great candidates directly.  INSTANDA does not accept unsolicited resumes from agency or search firm recruiters.  Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired.  When we do use agencies, we have a PSL in place, so please do not contact managers directly.