Product Owner

**Company Description**
We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

For the past 25 years, Sequel Business Solutions has grown from being a trusted consultancy to becoming a leading insurance and reinsurance software specialist. With our headquarters based in London EC2, we employ talented insurance and technical experts who understand the market and our clients’ business.

Now, as part of the Verisk Analytics family, that legacy is even stronger. Aligning with the world’s leading data analytics company extends our ability to help clients overcome the toughest challenges.

Together we deliver a powerful suite of software which provide full end-to-end management of all insurance and reinsurance business. Our clients are able to grow and better manage their business through greater efficiency, flexibility, and data governance.

Responsible for managing a particular product offering, including roadmap development, and takes an active role in client engagement. In some cases, may include management of the team responsible for delivering that product.

**Main responsibilities**:
**Delivery**
- Own the product backlog to ensure all deliverables are prioritized.
- Ensure that releases adhere to the concept of **Minimum Viable Product** to reduce the breadth of business change, whiles ensuring sufficient functionality is delivered.
- Support Project Managers on client delivery projects as required to achieve a successful delivery outcome.
- Signs off on the deliverables before they move to production.
- Accountable for the Vanilla configuration and ensure that new functionality is embedded within the Vanilla configuration.
- Responsible for the ensuring Client variations to the Vanilla configuration are understood, reduced and documented.
- Accountable for improving implementation and upgraded process, client experience and costs.
- Support Account Management and Sales teams where detailed product knowledge is required.
- Act as escalation point for Support and Account Management when required to ensure Client’s concerns and/or requirements are fully understood and assessed from a Product perspective.
- Support Project Managers and the other Product Owner(s) on client delivery projects as required to achieve a successful delivery outcome.
- Accountable for ensuring the supportability of the product, including training and internal processes.
- Accountable for ensuring the product is appropriately documented, for both internal and external audiences.

**Roadmap and Development**
- Accountable for translating the business vision into a well-defined product roadmap.
- Responsibility, with the other Product Owner(s) and Head of Product, for feature definition/elaboration to adequately prepare the roadmap for Product Team progression.** **Understanding of market initiatives and factors impacting the product.
- Responsible for creating user stories and ensuring they are documented to a sufficient level to enable delivery.
- Responsible for the product refinement ceremony where the team work together to ensure the deliverables can be estimated.
- Provide strong leadership to the development team.
- Accountable for the story map which outlines which deliverables are planned in the upcoming releases.
- Participate in feature reviews with responsibility to confirm acceptance of Product enhancements against the expected ’value’ previously agreed in conjunction with the Head of Product Line during roadmap planning.
- Signs off on the release before they move to delivery.

**Client Engagement**
- Co-Chair and drives client engagement workshops to ensure the roadmap meets the client needs.
- Collaborate with clients to assess the priority of new features and help shape the product vision.
- Attend/support market events, as required in support of the Head of Product.

**Team Support**
- Provide support to the Head of Product Line and the Product Delivery Manager with continuous improvement processes for the Sequel product where agreed with the team**.**:

- Identify knowledge deficiencies in the team and propose/execute remediation plans to solve.

**Subject Matter Expertise**
- Provide specific Product Line with deep domain and client practitioner knowledge.
- Provide SME input and generate presentation material for future Sequel Innovation forums.

Any other duties commensurate to the grade of the role.

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**Qualifications**
- Formal, structured learning (related degree or other qualifications).
- A compelling progression of experience within a software development organisation.
- A strong background working within a software vendor environment, in the scoping and development of software products.
- Prior experience as an analyst
- developer, or business analyst, qualifying high level software requirements as well as def