Agile Product Owner - Risk Engineering
About The Position
The Hartford is seeking an Agile Product Owner to shape and deliver new capabilities for its Cross Business Insurance Risk Services Value Stream. The role sets priorities for two to three agile teams, brings the voice of the customer into decisions, and connects day-to-day delivery to the business vision. The Product Owner may join an existing delivery team or help establish a new one and reports to the Value Stream Owner for Risk Services. The position follows a hybrid schedule, with three office days per week, Tuesday through Thursday, at one of the listed locations: Columbus, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Hartford, Connecticut; or Charlotte, North Carolina. The candidate must be authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.
Requirements
- Prior experience as a Product Owner.
- Prior financial services or insurance experience.
- Strong knowledge of agile methodologies and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and DevOps.
- Domain expertise, including the ability to understand business processes and explain them clearly to a delivery team.
- Solution design skills that promote reuse and flexibility.
- Ability to identify opportunities to use and integrate data to improve business processes.
- Experience partnering with data scientists and ML engineers on AI-enabled products.
- Project management skills, including risk mitigation and change management.
- Ability to handle large scope and high complexity within agile teams.
- Authorization to work in the United States without company sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Risk Engineering.
- CSPO or PSPO certification.
- Rally experience.
Responsibilities
- Interpret internal and external customer feedback, industry trends, and competitor trends to build business cases and contribute to product vision and roadmap.
- Use data and the voice of the customer and business to manage and prioritize the product backlog.
- Contribute to feature roadmapping.
- Create features and user stories, simplify requirements, and establish clear acceptance criteria.
- Ensure the development team understands each backlog item and its business value.
- Make trade-off decisions within the agile team with minimal oversight.
- Inspect product progress at the end of each sprint and accept or reject delivered work.
- Analyze delivery metrics to identify trends and opportunities to improve team practices.
- Serve as the link between customers, business stakeholders, and development teams throughout planning and delivery.
- Work with the Scrum Master and Agile Release Train partners, including the Agile Product Manager and Release Train Engineer, to ensure solutions deliver the business vision.
- Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, and technical stakeholders to define requirements and prioritize ethical, explainable, user-centric AI features.
- Balance competing business and IT priorities as a trusted advisor.
- Build a positive delivery team culture and address issues that disrupt the team.
Benefits
- Short-term or annual bonuses may be available.
- Long-term incentives may be available.
- On-the-spot recognition may be available.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
