Senior Business Product Owner

Founded in 1985, SelectQuote provides solutions that help consumers protect their most valuable assets: their families, health and property. The company pioneered the model of providing unbiased comparisons from multiple, highly rated insurance companies allowing consumers to choose the policy and terms that best meet their unique needs. Two foundational pillars underpin SelectQuote’s success: a strong force of highly trained and skilled agents, who provide consultative needs analysis for every consumer, and proprietary technology that sources and routes high-quality leads. The company has three core business lines: SelectQuote Senior, SelectQuote Life and SelectQuote Auto and Home. SelectQuote Senior, the largest and fastest-growing business, serves the needs of a demographic that sees 10,000 people turn 65 each day with a range of Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement plans.

Job Summary:

The Senior Business Product Owner will have deep functional expertise and strategic influence, playing a critical leadership role in setting product vision and strategy, balancing business goals and technical considerations, managing stakeholders, and driving cross-functional alignment and execution from planning through delivery. This role requires strong technical, analytics, communication, leadership, and collaboration skills to bridge gaps across key stakeholders in order to bring a product vision to life.

Essential Functions:

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business and user base to understand needs, challenges, and goals to inform product strategy and roadmaps. Lead the planning process for new products and features.
• Develop, document, manage, and communicate product vision, strategy, and prioritized roadmaps and backlogs.
• Provide ongoing grooming and maintenance of the product backlog based on business value, dependencies, and effort required.
• Create user stories, detailed specifications, and acceptance criteria for new features and products.
• Develop and define success metrics for products and features.
• Act as the primary point of contact for product development questions and needs from ideation through development, testing, and release to ensure effective execution on the product roadmap.
• Represent the voice of the user and business throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Clearly communicate product plans and progress to executives, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
• Track, analyze, and report on key product metrics to assess product and feature performance and iterate on product strategy.
• Optimize and enhance existing products through new releases, updates, and improvements.
• Stay up to date on industry and technology trends relevant to the products.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior business product owners and associates.

Training & Experience:

• BA/BS degree in Business, Technology, or related field with 8-12 years product management experience.
• Strong technical background with the ability to collaborate with software engineers.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Strategic and analytical thinker with demonstrated leadership abilities.
• Experience managing complex products and platforms and developing product visions and roadmaps.
• Proficiency with product management tools like JIRA.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and processes.
• Proven ability to prioritize and balance business needs with technical constraints.
• A data-driven approach to making product decisions.
• A passion for building great products and features that meet business and user needs.

Benefits:

It’s an exciting time to join SelectQuote. We became a publicly traded company in 2020 with the first 100% virtual IPO (non-biotech) in American history. We have also been recognized nationally on the 2021 Top Workplaces USA list and by the Kansas City Business Journal as a 2020 Best Places to Work honoree.

Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, voluntary short-term disability, company-paid long term disability, company-paid life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D), 401(k) + company match and 100% vesting after 4 years, discretionary profit sharing, employee stock purchase program (espp), paid time off, floating holidays, paid maternity leave, paid parental bonding leave, tuition reimbursement, jury duty pay, and other paid leaves vary based on work location.