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Direct employerEvolve GIB Product Owner

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About this role
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Role overview
Turnkey Africa is hiring a full-time Evolve GIB Product Owner based in Nairobi, Kenya. This role suits someone with experience in product ownership or related fields, particularly with knowledge of General Insurance Business processes. The position involves managing product delivery and execution readiness within the insurance domain.
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What you will do
- Translate approved product priorities into a clear, prioritised backlog with testable work items.
- Maintain coherence and control across the end-to-end general insurance journey including quotation, underwriting, policy service, claims, and reinsurance.
- Ensure backlog hygiene by managing priority, ageing, and readiness of work items before sprint commitment.
- Identify and escalate ambiguities, rule gaps, and decision points early to relevant teams.
- Support sprint planning, UAT, demos, and release readiness by preparing necessary product inputs and tracking progress.
- Maintain and follow up on product-level dependencies and blockers until resolved.
- Audit and report weekly on backlog quality, risks, decisions, and recovery actions to improve delivery processes.
Requirements
- Have 3 to 7 years of experience in roles such as Product Owner, Business Analyst, or delivery analyst.
- Possess working knowledge of General Insurance Business processes, controls, users, data, and integrations; insurance or fintech experience is preferred.
- Be skilled in Agile planning, refinement, Jira or workflow tools, UAT, release readiness, and dependency and defect control.
- Demonstrate technical literacy to understand APIs, data, business rules, environments, security, and integration dependencies without owning solution design.
- Communicate clearly in writing, facilitate meetings, maintain decision records, and escalate issues timely.
- Show behaviours including ownership, curiosity, discipline with evidence, integrity, collaboration, urgency, and calmness under pressure.
- Hold a relevant degree or equivalent experience; Product Owner or Agile certification is desirable but not mandatory.
How to apply
Apply through the employer's official contact with your application before the closing date, which the employer has not published.
