Position: Product Owner (Recent Job)

Job Description

What’s in it for you?

• Manage small to moderate scale regional digital products and services end-to-end to achieve business outcomes in coordination with your delivery partners
• Optimize the value of the delivery team by prioritizing a backlog of work against end-user needs and business objectives
• Participate in product discovery exercises focused on crystallizing the end-user need and curating demand for your digital product domain
• Contribute to a detailed and robust product roadmap

We will count on you to:

• Manage the conversion of high-level business requirements and use-cases into detailed functional specifications and user-stories
• Partner with colleagues in UX and Design to ensure delivered product experiences are easy to use, scalable, and enjoyable
• Coordinate with colleagues focused on data standards and governance to ensure product alignment with key data efforts
• Undertake regular work stream meetings, documenting and following-up on actions and risks identifies from the meetings and escalate where needed, while ensuring remediation action plans are implemented
• Maintain ongoing appropriate communication to management and stakeholders both for status as well as to evangelize digital product benefits
• Develop comprehensive change management and benefits realization plans to ensure successful delivery of key changes
• Develop methods for the regional implementation of long-term product goals and objectives for highly complex and regional projects, evaluating regional needs within a global structure
• Serve as a recognized expert in the product functionality being provided, and the business domain being served
• Proactively communicate risks, dependencies, and changes to Product roadmap to stakeholders, sponsors, and users

Job Specification

• 4+ years’ experience as a Product Owner within a Digital Products Organization or related competency
• Experience directly contributing to a related project, product, or initiative within a digital business or technology setting
• Demonstrated competency in partnership skills on past projects and products
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with managers, stakeholders, and delivery-partners
• Mastery in the digital products development within an Agile organization/structure
• Demonstrated ability managing multiple priorities, stakeholders, initiatives in a structured fashion

What Makes You Stand Out

• SAFe or Comparable Certification a Plus (relevant course topics include but not limited to Agile Product Manager, Lean Portfolio Manager, Product Owner / Product Manager, Agilist)
• Demonstrated competency in managing stakeholders in a dynamic and diverse environment
• Strong organizational skills
• Domain experience in at least one relevant area of financial services space that includes but not limited to Insurance, Markets, Risk, Management, Economics
• Formal instruction (a degree, minor designation, certification, or other course-work) in a relevant aspect of digital technology including software development, computer or systems engineering, information systems, technology architecture, entrepreneurship, or related