Director of Product - Indio Platform

Company: Applied Systems, Inc.
Location: Austin
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

Indio Technologies, a Subsidiary of Applied Systems, Inc., is currently searching for a knowledgeable and talented Director of Product - Indio Platform to join our software Product organization. In this role, you will build a foundation for excellence & achievement by reinforcing product strategy with metrics, frequent communication, business processes, best practices, budgeting, prioritization, and central reporting.

The role will work in a cross functional way to ensure Product Managers are supported throughout the PDLC {Product Development Life Cycle} process and products launches are organized for optimum client delivery. This leader will work moderate to highly complex workloads and develop a domain knowledge for the solution lines they support.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Overseas operational discipline, processes and methodology, and program management
• Ensures product team is channeling the voice of the customer into market facing product, ensuring clear communications between product managers and internal stakeholders
• Provides oversight to deliver on strategic engagements and product deliverables, ensuring the product team delivers against its commitments with the highest quality in a timely fashion
• Accountable for all status materials and roadmap documents to be compiled, aggregated, and completed in a timely fashion, and maintained on a regular basis in order to be kept current
• Perform risk analysis, develop contingency plans, and gather data from functions to proactively raise prioritization and scheduling tradeoff decisions, and monitor technology costs/spend rates
• Work with the product team to establish key performance metrics, and measurements are implemented to predicable delivery of product and ensure continuous improvement with technology
• Ensures optimal collaboration and project execution with all key stakeholders. This will require extensive communication with operators, product leads, and senior leadership
• Plan, coordinate, and drive discipline around the processes for testing, launching and rollout of new products and features 

QUALIFICATIONS FOR THIS JOB

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience in similar work environment
• Minimum of 7 years of product management and/or software development project management
• Knowledge in the use of Product Management methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Kanban etc.
• Strong knowledge of REST Web Service and API Development
• Prior experience working with an insurance carrier
• Understanding of the insurance policy lifecycle
• Working knowledge of ACORD Forms
• Knowledge of XML to work with ACORD XML files
• Demonstrated analytic experience in budgeting, estimating, and financial reviews
• Prior experience working with an insurance carrier
• Extensive knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint for documentation purposes; JIRA knowledge is a plus
• High level of organization and delivering to expectations
• Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders; set direction and approach; resolve conflict; deliver tough messages; execute with limited information and ambiguity

WHO WE ARE

Indio is modernizing the business insurance industry, making the insurance application and renewal process fast, easy, and error free. Indio’s application solves a traditionally broken process in the insurance industry by digitizing the client risk capture and application experience, making it more collaborative, simpler and error-free.

The Indio team has years of experience in traditional insurance, software engineering, and modern design, and is driven by a passion to transform an industry. Owned by the industry’s leading software company, Applied Systems, our staff has access to resources, expertise, and global scale to grow their career and change an industry. 

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