Technical Product Owner

Assurant

Technical Product Owner collaborating with business partners to design solutions for complex needs. Leading Agile teams to meet requirements for Assurant’s Connected Home products.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $88,000 - $147,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Works closely with Business stakeholders and other areas in Assurant to understand business objectives and product requirements.
Interpret high-level business, compliance, and financial needs/requests for complex projects, with little or no background information or foundation.
A self-starter that has the ability to lead solution definition and refine requirements for several concurrent initiatives around the globe.
Be the “go to” person for knowledge of the department’s applications and data.
Writes functional and technical user stories that clearly communicate customer/stakeholder needs to the Agile team, accepts stories once complete and demo’d.
Backlog planning, prioritization, and management.
Understands and supports inter-team dependencies, and ability to identify priority issues and determine which issues can be managed within the authority of a TPO and being able to discern those issues requiring engineering support or to be directed from a higher authority.
Analyze complex processes, interfaces, and sub-system problems for modification.
Participate in new process definition efforts, as requested.
Document existing and new business processes and workflows.
Identify and resolve complex, non-routine problems and issues where no precedent has been established or exists.
Identify trends/patterns; facilitate and/or conduct root cause analysis; recommend solution alternatives.
Identify and implement process improvements.
Communicate release date and scope for the initiatives the TPO is leading.
Attends and actively participates in team events (e.g., daily stand-up, grooming, sprint planning, sprint review).
Attend major release deployments and weekend support as needed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of experience as a Technical Product Owner, Business Analyst, SME or process owner
2+ years of progressive experience gathering requirements and writing user stories for business application needs
3+ years of experience working in Agile development environment
Experience supporting web portals or websites is highly desired
Exposure with AI tools to steam line work flows and processes
Ability to lead, prioritize and work independently or as part of a project team to complete multiple tasks, concurrently
Ability to process complex time sensitive data and information from multiple sources, make decisions and communicate actions
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
Ability to develop productive working relationships with both technical and non-technical partners
Excellent organizational and planning skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Paid time off
Flexible working arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

Agile developmentuser storiesrequirements gatheringprocess improvementroot cause analysisbacklog managementdata analysisweb portalsAI toolsfunctional documentation

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationorganizational skillsproblem-solvingcollaborationindependenceprioritizationadaptabilityrelationship buildingself-starter