Product Owner / Development Manager - Broker Products
GoHealth is a leading developer of Web-based sales and online insurance marketing tools for the health insurance industry, helping insurance brokers, agents and carriers connect with customers and transact business more efficiently.
We are revolutionizing the health insurance industry through technology. Are you interested in driving an industry that is expected to top the trillions by 2014?
GoHealth was named one of the Top 10 Fastest Growing Software Companies in America by Inc 500, our President and CEO were 2013 Midwest region winners of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, and the CEO and President were both just recognized in the prestigious Crain’s 40 Under 40 list.
The Broker Product Owner / Development Manager plays a vital role by having complete responsibility over the Broker Products development team, which is going to experience a tremendous amount of growth. Over 20,000 insurance agents rely on our technology, and that number is expected to sky rocket over the coming months. One of the largest set of users for the broker products are licensed GoHealth insurance agents. This includes our 600+ call center agents here in Chicago as well as 3000+ GoHealth VMO agents around the country. You will be helping shape the future of these products by taking the complexity out of the sales process, making it easier to provide health insurance to people who need it most.
This is an ideal role for someone who wants to work in a fast paced, cutting-edge environment where you can see the impact of the things you do every day. In addition to working with our insurance agent customers, you will also work with an ambitious and extremely talented team of project managers, business analysts, architects, software engineers and quality assurance analysts.
We employ an agile methodology and fully embrace the fundamentals of continuous improvements, self-organizing teams, just-in-time requirements, and delivering business value with great technology.
GoHealth is experiencing tremendous growth. This is a great time to join the team and help us continue to achieve great success!
- Minimum ten years IT experience in a dynamic fast-paced technical environment.
- Product development experience in an Agile environment.
- Experience building and managing a technical team and resolving impediments that block the team from its full potential.
- Collaborate with external business stakeholders to ensure business problems and product vision are clearly defined and articulated.
- Work closely with engineering, product management, and business stakeholders in the definition and creation of product features.
- Day-to-day prioritization working closely with Scrum Master as things change.
- Serve as voice of the customer to scrum team to clarify backlog questions.
- Effectively manage trade-offs between business benefits and cost/schedule.
- Work across the entire product lifecycle from strategic planning to day-to-day product development activities to product release.
- Manage and prioritize product backlog including defects and feature requests.
- Ability to apply an analytical mindset to make correlations and judgement calls from data.
- Because you will own responsibility for Broker Products, your success will be visible to executive management and the Board of Directors.
- Experience in working in SaaS model strongly desired.