Director, Product Owner - Underwriting Automation

Job Summary: This role supports underwriting automation and innovation initiatives by translating business objectives, client needs, and underwriting intent into clear requirements, business rules, user stories, and implementation plans. It also provides Agile leadership, backlog governance, stakeholder coordination, and strategic planning to improve automation capabilities, operational efficiency, data utilization, and team delivery effectiveness.
The Project Manager/Owner Underwriting Automation is responsible for translating underwriting strategy and client needs into actionable business requirements, rules, user stories, and delivery plans. The role serves as a bridge between clients, underwriters, product owners, technology teams, and development partners to ensure automation solutions are well-defined, prioritized, implemented effectively, and aligned with business objectives. The position also provides Agile leadership, managing planning ceremonies, backlog readiness, prioritization, documentation standards, progress tracking, risk escalation, and continuous improvement for delivery teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning and delivery of underwriting automation initiatives that support business objectives, operational efficiency, and client needs.
• Partner with clients, underwriters, product owners, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate underwriting intent into detailed business rules, configuration requirements, and user stories · Lead discovery and requirements gathering sessions to understand underwriting processes, business objectives, data needs, dependencies, and implementation priorities.
• Serve as a client-facing and cross-functional liaison by facilitating workshops, documenting decisions, communicating priorities, and providing implementation progress updates.
• Coordinate multiple concurrent workstreams, balance client commitments, strategic initiatives, and product enhancements.
• Develop and maintain business requirements, process documentation, decision records, and other project-related materials.
• Lead Agile planning meetings and related team ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Standups, Quarterly Planning, and prioritization discussions.
• Prepare and maintain the product and project backlog, ensuring work is clearly defined, appropriately prioritized, and ready for development.
• Facilitate discussions to define scope, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, acceptance criteria, and expected business outcomes.
• Drive initiatives that improve automation capabilities, data utilization, underwriting decision quality, configurator usability, and operational efficiency.
• Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing across internal teams, external development partners, and client organizations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent
• Scrum certification
• FLMI preferred
• 3-5 years experience with Automation Accelerated Underwriting programs
• 3+ years of Agile leadership experience
• Exposure to and and experience with rules based, automated underwriting systems, including development and enhancement of rules, processes and data sources.
• Experience in evaluating and analyzing vendor solutions including predictive scoring tools, rules, and evolving data sources
• High level of independence and self-direction in addition to collaboration, correlation and attention to detail.
• Strong client facing interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational and initiative skills

You may not meet every requirement listed in the job description. If you bring broad expertise and alignment to the role and resonate with our core values, we encourage you to apply.

Relocation assistance within the U.S. is available for this position. Candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Hybrid Work Policy:

SCOR is committed to an "in-office" culture where people can collaborate, exchange ideas, and establish stronger working relationships while ll providing flexibility. To support employee work-life balance and increase opportunities for employees to excel every day, SCOR operates with a hybrid working arrangement. SCOR employees work 3 days per week in an office with the flexibility to work 2 days per week remotely.

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