Junior Digital 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.

Job Description

We are looking for a Technical Analyst II / Junior Product Owner to collaborate with business, technology, and management within Verisk to shape, implement and oversee content and feature delivery of the Core Lines product suite.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with (Digital) Product Manager(s) to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI. Contribute specific understanding of assigned scope to the overall product roadmap. 
• Analyze and synthesize documentation, data, market best practices, stakeholder interviews to generate business requirements
• Drive creation and maintenance of a healthy and high-quality user story backlog: develop, iterate and refine use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria and other forms of documentation in Confluence / Jira
• High attention to detail (e.g., root cause analysis of errors / bugs)
• Drive tracking and transparency on milestones and business value
• Engages in planning, grooming and other Agile ceremonies  
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders, e.g., defining (digital) product roadmap, feature refinement
• Models an action-oriented work ethic 

Qualifications

Requirements 

• Experience gathering / analyzing business requirements and creating / maintaining feature backlogs a must
• Strong applied knowledge of software development technologies, primarily with Agile and SAFe principles 
• Strong interpersonal skills, including verbal, written, facilitation, mediation, negotiation, collaboration, and presentation
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent education is strongly preferred 
• 2+ years’ experience in a digital product organization strongly preferred 
• Strong ability to organize material, analyze and develop recommendations 
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills 
• Strong ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders at various levels in the organization
• Experience in content and content platform projects is desirable 
• Experience in insurance policy language and rating algorithms is desirable 

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Additional Information

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale.

We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.
• Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
• Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
• Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and