Product Owner

Position: Product Owner
Location: Princeton, NJ (Onsite)
Duration: 12 Months

Job Description
Core Responsibilities

• Understand business stakeholders’ priorities across digital products and communicate target delivery dates for requested changes.
• Coordinate with Actuarial and Data Science teams, report on their priorities, and identify support needed from those teams to align with business priorities. Translate work into business stories.
• Work with the engineering team and SEBI to understand critical IT stories and prioritize them against business priorities and delivery expectations.
• Ensure business requirements are fully defined and translated into user stories.
• Run backlog refinement sessions to ensure all stories are well-defined and ready to enter a sprint.

Sprint & Delivery Management

• Lead sprint planning by deciding which stories will be included at the start of each sprint and determining work prioritization.
• During the sprint, assess whether additional stories can be added based on capacity or whether work should be removed if new critical priorities emerge.
• Determine release scope for product releases.
• Create and distribute release notes and communicate release schedules and potential impacts to business stakeholders and clients.
• Sign off on releases before production deployment.
• Run sprint reviews to highlight and share accomplishments from the previous sprint.
• Facilitate sprint retrospectives for the team.

Stakeholder & Client Engagement

• Attend client meetings to understand upcoming client needs and community changes. (This responsibility may shift more fully to business ownership rather than a contractor.)
• Support front-line teams in addressing client questions or issues related to systems or capabilities. (This responsibility may shift more fully to business ownership.)
• Manage client onboarding expectations and timelines for technical integrations.
• Coordinate with business stakeholders on delivery dates and work needed to support client onboarding. (This responsibility may align more closely with a Product Analyst role.)

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Define the DUWME roadmap for the next 3–4 quarters and establish a well-defined plan.

Bridge-Side Responsibilities

• Understand business stakeholders’ priorities for key elements of the Bridge Portal and communicate target delivery dates for requested changes.
• Ensure business requirements are fully defined and translated into user stories.
• Run backlog refinement sessions to ensure stories are ready for sprint planning.
• Work with the engineering team to understand critical IT stories and prioritize them against business priorities and delivery expectations.
• Lead sprint planning and ongoing sprint prioritization decisions.
• Determine release scope and communicate release details to business stakeholders.
• Sign off on releases before production deployment.
• Establish a roadmap for capabilities to be onboarded and added over the next year.
• Facilitate and support intake into the Portfolio Steering Process and determine where initiatives fit within the Bridge Portal roadmap.