Product Owner III

Are you passionate about transforming how customers shop for insurance online? Join our I Buy I Sell Consumers Portfolio as a Product Owner III and help shape the future of the digital insurance buying experience.

In this role, you'll lead a cross-functional Agile product teams focused on creating intuitive, seamless, and engaging experiences that make purchasing insurance easier than ever. You'll leverage customer insights, behavioral data, and experimentation to identify opportunities, reduce friction throughout the buying journey, and deliver measurable business value.

As a Product Owner, you'll empower your teams to innovate, embrace thoughtful risk-taking, and solve meaningful customer problems using modern technology. If you're energized by turning customer insights into impactful digital experiences, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for collaboratively creating product vision and alignment with strategic priorities with stakeholders. Contributes to the development of the portfolio vision. Communicates the vision as a product strategy to their squad/team and other squads/teams outside their portfolio & functional area as well as executive leadership.
• With the squad, accountable for developing and achieving product level KPIs. Manages product(s) with high degree of strategy, scope, and complexity.
• Owns and maintains the product backlog and is accountable for its contents and prioritization. Accountable for clear, actionable user stories.
• Sets priorities and actively participates in squad/team quarterly planning. Contributes to priorities for and actively participates in portfolio quarterly planning. Sets expectations with stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.
• Participates in squad/team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.
• Works daily with the agile working group clarifying business requirements, removing roadblocks, constantly communicating, and supporting alignment around product strategy.
• Leads IT and business leadership to align development and business goals and priorities while working with stakeholders and squad/team to remove roadblocks to execution.
• Monitors and maintains the product health. Designs additional monitoring to support enhanced understanding of product health. Proactively monitors impact of their product on others in the ecosystem.
• Analyzes and reports on feasibility, cost of delay ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential changes to the product. 
• Drives alignment with stakeholders to understand the impact that their products' regulatory, compliance, and other industry constraints will have on other products in the portfolio. Negotiates with internal and external squads/teams to set aligned priorities among squads/teams both within and outside the portfolio. 

Ideal candidate will have: 

• Product Mindset Experience: A strong focus on delivering outcomes by deeply understanding the customer needs and developing effective solutions.
• Strong Communication Skills: Ability to depict complex ideas, issues and designs to varied audiences on the business vision and plan, and the impact of change. Ability to influence a diverse group of stakeholders through strong leadership skills.
• Analytic Mindset: Responsible for analyzing data to identify opportunities, prioritize work, test hypotheses and drive business results. 
• Problem Solver: Ability to make quick and challenging decisions on a daily basis.
• Personal Lines Product Knowledge: Strong understanding of Personal Lines insurance products to help increase consumer confidence that they have the right product and coverage when shopping online 

This position requires two in-office days per week for candidates who reside within 50 miles of Columbus, OH; Seattle, WA; Boston, MA; Portsmouth, NH; Indianapolis, IN; or Plano, TX.

• Advanced knowledge of Agile development methodologies as typically acquired through a Bachelors’ degree in relevant field (business, computer science, humanities etc.), 7 years in business, technology, or consulting with 5 to 7 years direct experience with agile teams
• Master's degree preferred
• High level of proven business expertise needed to set clear priorities for product and understand business value impacts
• Develops strong stakeholder relationships and influencing across multiple organizational boundaries
• Demonstrated experience leading varied audiences through the development of complex ideas, issues and designs
• Ability to lead varied audiences through census building
• Proven experience with Agile practices and expectations
• Comfortable with making decisions with some level of uncertainty
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Knowledge of insurance industry preferred
• Knowledge of relevant products and portfolio strongly preferred
• Strong experimental mindset to drive innovation amongst uncertainty and exploit market opportunities