Product Manager

Origami Risk is a company that delivers SaaS solutions for risk management. The Product Manager is responsible for identifying customer needs, developing a strategic roadmap, and collaborating with Engineering to deliver innovative solutions that meet client demands.

Responsibilities:

• Owns the 12-month product roadmap and align the scrum team around delivery of high value business outcomes
• Researches and identifies emerging market and technology needs to influence the market roadmap and promote innovation and differentiation
• Uses data to validate roadmap prioritization and proposed solution builds. Ensures that we are solving the right problems and that these problems are worth solving
• Builds deep business domain and user and client expertise to identify product and market opportunities
• Acts as the subject matter expert for their assigned product and market
• Translates business requirements into technical requirements
• Documents requirements in the form of user stories to create a shared understanding with Engineering teams
• Develops, refines, and documents other product artifacts (Ex: Visual collaboration documents, Lucid Chart workflows, etc.)
• In partnership with Engineering, Design and Architecture teams, builds system designs
• Validates all product & engineering artifacts (User Stories/Acceptance Criteria, Visual Collaboration documents, design documents, etc.) to ensure risks to value, viability, feasibility, and usability are addressed upfront
• Participates in quarterly release planning activities, driving direction and prioritization for each quarter
• Serves as the product owner of the scrum team to plan the work of the team and resolve in-sprint issues
• Acts as a ruthless “prioritizer” while balancing the needs of clients and stakeholders
• Performs necessary backlog maintenance, such as identifying escalated feature or bug requests and preparing them for upcoming sprints
• In partnership with Engineering, Design and Architecture teams, builds system designs; Validates all system designs that impact your product
• In conjunction with the Product Analyst, oversees that the totality of delivered user stories meet the epic’s definition of done
• Serves as the day-to-day contact for the team on clarification of requirements and drives the teams’ refinement ceremony
• Acts as the product point of contact for all sprint ceremonies: sprint planning, refinement, sprint demo, retrospective, etc
• Ensures backlog health meets the demands of the team as set/determined by Product Leadership
• Performs functional testing and confirm sprint demos to ensure delivery of quality software
• Partners with business stakeholders to align to strategic long-term roadmaps and ensure delivery of the aligned product outcomes
• Aligns stakeholders across the organization to ensure transparency of prioritization and roadmap status
• Acts as a liaison between stakeholder and development teams
• Drives the agenda and facilitate meetings with Analysts to obtain roadmap feedback
• Partners with marketing and operations to provide market and product responses to RFIs
• Champions and models Origami Risk’s values (Prioritize Clients’ Trust and Success, Innovate with an Entrepreneurial Spirit, Collaborate and Win as a Team)
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, liberal arts, science, or engineering
• 5-7 years' experience in Product Management, including owning a product roadmap and driving Agile processes
• Excellent analytical and conceptual thinking skills and a high attention to detail
• Business acumen to identify opportunities, facilitate strategic planning, and use data and storytelling to influence
• Ability to balance short term needs with long-term strategy
• Strong relationship building skills, including an ability to influence stakeholders and scrum team members
• Exceptional communication skills (verbal and written) across all levels of the organization
• Experience overseeing all or some phases of the product development lifecycle
• Experience working in agile methodologies and working on an agile team
• Prior experience as a product manager for a P&C policy admin system required