• Monitors and maintains the product's health, supporting long-term product viability and efficiency, and balancing long and short term and costs against desired outcomes.
• Collaborates to create product vision and alignment with strategic priorities with stakeholders. Contributes to the development of the portfolio vision.
• Communicates product and portfolio vision to their agile team and other agile teams outside their portfolio/functional area.
• Works collaboratively with partners and is accountable for developing and achieving product-level Key Value Indicators. Manages product(s) with a moderate degree of strategy, scope, and complexity.
• Owns and maintains the product backlog and is accountable for its contents and prioritization. Accountable for clear, actionable initiatives, epics/features and user stories.
• Sets priorities and actively participates along with their agile teams quarterly planning and coordinates with other Product Owners to set priorities for portfolio quarterly planning.
• Sets expectations with stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities. Participates in agile sprint reviews, partner demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.
• Works daily with the agile team, clarifying business requirements, removing roadblocks, constantly communicating, and supporting alignment around product strategy.
• Collaborates with IT and business leadership to align development and business goals and priorities while working with stakeholders and agile team to remove roadblocks to execution.
• Resolves open issues/questions quickly and efficiently.
• Analyzes and reports on feasibility, cost of delay ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential changes to the product.
• Understands security, regulatory, compliance, and other industry constraints on the product and prioritizes accordingly.
• Negotiates with internal and external agile teams to ensure priorities are aligned across agile teams both within and outside the portfolio.
• Builds and maintains the product roadmap, contributes to strategy inputs from stakeholders. May contribute to program/portfolio level planning. Influences stakeholder expectations for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.
• Understand essential technical elements of the assigned products.
• Communicates expected value and any changes in value to be delivered in each iteration (sprint, monthly, quarterly, etc.) based on the agile team-determined capacity.
• Leads customer-driven design and usability testing for the agile team. Ensures a well-positioned product through market & industry analysis.
• Promotes Shared Services product and brand promotions and communications through marketing efforts.
• Be curious and experiment in professional growth to become a more talented product owner and product manager.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in relevant field (business, computer science, etc.). Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years direct experience with agile teams as well as 7 years in business, technology, or consulting.
• Minimum 3+ years working within a technical information systems environment.
• Able to depict and explain the importance of complex ideas, issues, and designs to varied audiences; educate SBU/department(s) on business vision and plan and the impact of change.
• Able to influence a diverse group of stakeholders, strong leadership skills.
• Able to make difficult and quick decisions daily.
• Strong problem solver with demonstrated ability to lead a team to push the solutions and progress.
• Experience in the insurance industry preferred.
• Knowledge of relevant products and portfolio preferred.
• Strong experimental mindset to drive innovation amongst uncertainty.

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