Platform (Duck Creek) Product Owner, PRS (Finance)

JOB DESCRIPTION

North America (NA) Personal Risk Services (PRS) is seeking a results-oriented individual with requisite experience and enthusiasm to execute on a multi-year platform roadmap. The roadmap is a compilation of technology, product, underwriting, and process improvements, to materially advance our business capabilities related to digital adoption, operational efficiencies, and ease of doing business.

The PRS Platform Product Owner will work with Line of Business leadership, Operations, Underwriting, Sales, and IT to position our insurance products currently housed on the Duck Creek platform (Excess and Surplus (E&S), and Flood) for future growth, to continue to meet the evolving needs of clients and agents.

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of Duck Creek and the personal lines space and of the interdependence of other functional areas within the organization that interact with or are impacted by the roadmap (e.g., compliance, project management, finance and business analytics, user experience, digital, training, etc.). They will be responsible for developing, prioritizing, and executing against the product roadmap, to drive maximized business impact.

Responsibilities:

• Support the development of and drive the day-to-day execution of components of the multi-year Duck Creek roadmap for PRS, that aligns with strategic enterprise priorities and corresponding objectives and key results.
• Serve as a member of a multifunctional team (squad) to deliver high quality work product via faster/shorter iterative cycles.
• Collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders e.g., Product Management, Underwriting, Digital, Sales & Distribution, and IT, to establish, update, and deliver on the modernization roadmap.
• Drive decision-making with stakeholders and within the squad; influence key stakeholders, engage with other Product Owners (POs) to manage interdependencies, and escalate issues appropriately.
• Actively participate, and take on leadership in the visioning, research & data gathering, planning, execution, and measurement of work.
• Work with the business to understand and coordinate ranking and prioritization of business needs and plan solutions to ensure that each release provides optimized business results/ benefits and value to users.
• Manage, groom, and prioritize and make ready a backlog of user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Serve as a representative of the end user; support and/or lead usability sessions to ensure design meets user needs and adds value to the user.
• Serve as the business owner of User Acceptance Testing and oversee acceptance criteria of testing output.
• Focus on driving toward standardization and automation to advance PRS' transformation efforts while maintaining alignment to PRS' profit, expense, and growth targets, operational strategies, and division-wide projects.
• Work with Learning Services to develop and deliver training on the use of new systems, tools, and processes.

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ABOUT US

Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.

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