AI Product Manager

As the AI Product Manager, you are responsible for identifying customer and market needs, developing a 12-month strategic plan/roadmap that aligns to business goals, and planning and executing to that vision. You are a player/coach people leader managing a team of analysts and solution engineers within your defined product. The Product Manager closely partners with Engineering counterparts to solve complex business and client problems that drive solutions that delight our users and clients. The Product Manager manages product development deliverables, such as requirements documentation, analytics, design reviews, implementation, and delivery.

Roadmaps and Product Strategy:

• Owns the 12-month prioritized thoughtful product roadmap and associated feature-level backlog. Aligns team around delivery of high value business outcomes.
• Researches and identifies emerging market and technology needs to influence the market roadmap and promote innovation and differentiation.
• Uses data to validate roadmap prioritization and proposed solution builds. Ensures that we are solving the right problems and that these problems are worth solving.
• Builds deep business domain and user and client expertise to identify product and market opportunities.
• Acts as the subject matter expert for their assigned product and market.

Backlog Maintenance, Prioritization, and Scrum Team Support:

• Participates in quarterly release planning activities, driving direction and prioritization for each quarter.
• Executes against strong time management and planning to ensure adequate time is allotted for work to move through product life-cycle inclusive of discovery, requirements, design, and architecture.
• Serves as the product owner of the scrum team to plan the work of the team and resolve in-sprint issues.
• Acts as a ruthless “prioritizer” utilizing product prioritization framework to support constantly prioritized roadmap and backlog while balancing the needs of clients and stakeholders.
• Performs necessary backlog maintenance to support health, such as identifying escalated feature or bug requests and preparing them for upcoming sprints.
• Serves as the day-to-day contact for the team on clarification of requirements and drives the teams’ refinement ceremony.
• In conjunction with the Product Analyst, oversees that the totality of delivered user stories meet the epic’s definition of done.
• Ensures backlog health meets the demands of the team as set/determined by Product Leadership
• Performs functional testing and confirm sprint demos to ensure delivery of quality software.

Requirement Creation:

• Documents requirements in the form of user stories, translating business requirements into technical requirements, to create a shared understanding with Engineering teams.

• Develops, refines, and documents other product artifacts (Ex: Visual collaboration documents, Lucid Chart workflows, etc.)
• Translates business requirements into technical requirements.
• In partnership with Engineering, Design and Architecture teams, builds system designs.

• Validates team’s product & engineering artifacts (User Stories/Acceptance Criteria, Visual Collaboration documents, design documents, etc.) to ensure risks to value, viability, feasibility, and usability are addressed upfront.

Business Partnership:

• Partners with stakeholders across the organization to align to transparent strategic long-term roadmaps and ensure delivery of the aligned product outcomes.
• Partners with marketing and operations to provide market and product responses to RFIs.
• Champions and models Origami Risk’s values (Prioritize Clients’ Trust and Success, Innovate with an Entrepreneurial Spirit, Collaborate and Win as a Team)
• Other duties as assigned.

People Leadership:

• Acts as player (60-70%)/coach (30-40%) responsible for daily management of team, both delegating and completing work across product responsibilities including but not limited to discovery, requirements definition, design collaboration, agile ceremony participation, and more.
• Responsible for ensuring team members are adhering to department processes and best practices.
• Coordinates assignment of colleagues to deliverables aligned with prioritized roadmap and backlog while managing colleague capacity.
• Ensures team members have the necessary tools, knowledge, skills to execute upon assigned deliverables.
• Accountable for individual and team productivity measurements.
• Performs ongoing team member career development and performance evaluations in addition to annual performance review process.

• 5+ years’ experience in Product Management, including owning a product roadmap and driving Agile processes.

• Bachelor’s Degree in technology, business, liberal arts, science, or engineering.

• Experience implementing AI solutions in a B2B SaaS environment.

• Working knowledge of GenAI including knowledge of the latest AI trends and evolution of AI in the last 24 months.

• Excellent analytical and conceptual thinking skills and a high attention to detail

• Business acumen to identify opportunities, facilitate strategic planning, and use data and storytelling to influence.

• Ability to balance short term needs with long-term strategy.

• Strong relationship building skills, including an ability to influence stakeholders and scrum team members.

• Exceptional communication skills (verbal and written) across all levels of the organization.

• Experience overseeing all or some phases of the product development lifecycle.

• Experience working in agile methodologies and working on an agile team.

• Prior Risk Management and/or P&C Insurance experience strongly preferred.