Product Owner

Come join VisitorsCoverage, one of Silicon Valley's most successful InsurTech companies, certified as a Great Place to Work ®!

We are seeking a highly skilled Product Owner to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for gathering feature requests, scheduling releases and coordinating sprints. To be successful in this role, you should be able to identify user needs and work with cross-functional teams to manage product releases. Ultimately, you’ll help us roll-out products that deliver our company’s vision.

This is not a remote position. Candidates must be located in the SF Bay Area and must be willing to commute to the office in Santa Clara 4 times a week. Candidates with authorization to work in the US preferred. H1B transfer may be considered for the right candidate.

What We Do:

VisitorsCoverage is an Insurtech company, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, revolutionizing the way travelers search, compare, purchase, and manage their travel insurance. Imagine a place where buying travel insurance is as easy as ordering an item from your favorite online retailer. You know exactly what the benefits are and what each word on the coverage document means, and you are able to zip through the checkout process. We are obsessed with simplifying Travel Insurance! We wake up everyday thinking of new ways to meet the same expectations that users have from their online retailers and delivery or streaming services. We are a team of people who counter the thought that insurance is boring and love the challenge of delighting our users at every step of their decision-making process.

If this sounds like the perfect role and workplace for you, we encourage you to apply for this position! VisitorsCoverage is on a mission to hire only the best, and we are committed to providing exceptional employee experiences with meaningful work and true work/life balance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a sense of strong ownership
• Manage product backlog initiatives, epics, user stories, and cross-product dependencies
• Serve as the primary interface between the business and the Scrum team
• Organize and maintain a prioritized backlog for each sprint
• Organize and run sprint grooming sessions
• Translate product and feature ideas/concepts into actionable stories for the engineering teams
• Deliver internal demos and share release notes with the organization

Required Skills:

• Must be able to create wireframes (back of the napkin drawings) to illustrate concepts and brainstorm with UX.
• Must be able to write user stories and communicate the requirements clearly to the engineering team.
• Must have strong technical knowledge and be very familiar with web development tools, technologies and concepts. A computer science engineering degree is strongly desired.
• Must be very comfortable in managing product backlog and delivering with high velocity in a two week sprint cycle.
• Must be a team player, have good communication skills and be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Must have used JIRA or similar tools for managing user stories.
• Must have good project management and organization skills

Required Qualifications:

• 5-9 years of experience as a product manager or product owner for online platforms, preferably in the ecommerce space.
• BS in computer science or equivalent is highly preferred. Will accept candidates from other disciplines that can demonstrate strong technical knowledge and skills required to work with programmers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to work with Google analytics to analyze user behavior and optimize user experience.
• Ability to craft sound and concise messaging. E.g. headlines for pages, error messages, tooltips etc.
• Experience in the Insurance / InsurTech experience.

• 100% company paid individual medical, dental, & vision insurance coverage
• Pet insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off for annual charity or volunteer work
• Generous paid time off
• Fitness/Wellness gym stipend
• Great work-life balance

The salary range for this position is $115,000 - $140,000/year and is dependent on experience.