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Technology Product Owner

Place of work
Mlynské nivy 12, Bratislava, Slovakia (Job with occasional home office)
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
From 3 200 EUR/monthThe minimum gross monthly base salary for this role is 3200 EUR full time. Our final offer to you will be set up fairly, considering the skills and experience that you bring to the Swiss Re Group. You can look forward to extra rewards and benefits including an attractive performance-based bonus.

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

About the Role

This is a key position within iptiQ's L&H Digital Platform IT team and a unique opportunity to build and enhance our Digital Platform. The team and technology play a key role in helping to cultivate a culture of technology excellence, automation, digitisation and better exploitation of data to further enable and accelerate iptiQ's growth ambitions. We are looking for a passionate Product Owner for a part of our digital platform with strong agile product management skills who will drive the development of our platform for the insurance product domain as part of a multi-disciplinary agile development team.

Key Responsibilities

Design and deliver the insurance product and pricing engine and corresponding framework and processes
Develop and maintain strong relationships and communicate effectively on regular basis with internal partners across all functions
Gather requirements together with the product management team
Take ownership for refining the requirements of your domain from a business and technical perspective
Being able to abstract requirements coming from various collaborators, defining product business solutions and liaise with your agile team to transform them into platform capabilities and features
Define the mid-term and long-term roadmap for your platform domain(s) in collaboration with other domain owners and the overall platform product management
Synchronize with other domains to jointly develop cross-domain features
Help to investigate the cause of production issues and propose possible solutions
Prioritize, maintain and update user stories

We are looking forward to your application!


About the Team

IptiQ opens up attractive new risk pools through insurtech operating entities (OEs) within the primary insurance. As wholly owned businesses of Swiss Re, our shared mission is to help close the protection gap in the market and provide digital insurance solutions, primary insurance knowledge, new tools, and insights that will help reach new markets and offer new products. As part of iptiQ, the L&H Platform Team collaborates with the iptiQ OEs to support them in achieving their goals by delivering innovative and effective digital capability for their distribution partners.

Employee perks, benefits

You can look forward to extra rewards and benefits including:

- Attractive performance-based bonus
- Ultra flexible working time in hybrid setup, allowing you to work also from home
- Modern office spaces in attractive location
- 5 additional days of holiday
- Lunch allowance fully paid by Swiss Re
- Referral bonus
- Pension & risk insurance contribution
- Sick days and sick leave support
- Public transport benefit
- Multisport card

Information about the selection process

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

We provide feedback to all candidates via email. If you have not heard back from us, please check your spam folder.

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Master's degree)
Postgraduate (Doctorate)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

About You

Professional Experience

- University degree (Master's equivalent) in a relevant field (e.g. computer science, business administration, mathematics).
- Relevant work experience of 5+ years as a product owner for technology products and/ or platforms.
- Used to work in project environments. Experience working on an Agile (e.g. with SAFe) project and collaboration tools is a plus.
- Ability to analyse and structure complex issues and develop functional solutions for them
Interest in learning the mathematical foundations of insurance products
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with analytical, critical thinking and independent decision-making abilities.
- Strong teammate who is passionate about the success of the business and comfortable in a dynamic and fast paced environment.
- Knowledge of primary life insurance products is a plus.

Leadership Skills

- Ability to coach and bring the team together in implementing new ideas
- Communicates with impact, and effectively influences across the tech and wider business collaborator community
- Thinks practically in defining solutions balancing business needs with technical

Soft Skills

- Effectively navigate in ambiguity, shaping up new initiatives working with the senior tech team members
- Effectively presents and facilitates in front of large groups
- Good listener but can speak up if and when required
- Actively network and build bridges across teams with different cultures and working environments
- Ambitious with a positive attitude
- Ability to operate in a team in a rapidly-changing primary insurance environment
- Highly proactive, and motivated with a positive can-do attitude
- Willingness to work "virtually" and travel to other sites

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Brief description of the company

As the world's leading and most diversified global reinsurer, we offer as our core business financial services products that enable risk taking essential to enterprise and progress. Our company was founded in Zurich, Switzerland in 1863, and operates in more than 25 countries and provides its expertise and services to clients throughout the world. We combine financial strengths with experience, knowledge and creative thought to explore new opportunities in the interests of our clients, staff and shareholders.

Number of employees

1700 and more employees

Company address

Contact

Contact person: Jakub Varhol

ID: 4508339  Posting date: 17.7.2023  Basic salary component (gross): 3 200 EUR/month