Business Product Owner, Sales Compensation
About The Position
As a Business Product Owner, Sales Compensation, you will be responsible for translating the product vision and strategy into actionable tasks, ensuring alignment with customer needs and organizational goals. The Product Owner role involves close collaboration with various stakeholders to clarify requirements, prioritize tasks, and maintain up-to-date product documentation. The Product Owner will track progress to ensure timely delivery, participate in Agile ceremonies, and continuously learn Agile product management practices. You will Work on a dedicated team of Business Analysts and Business Product Owners to develop and manage the product backlog, ensuring it aligns with the overall product vision and strategy Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and refine requirements, ensuring they are well-documented and prioritized Maintain clear and up-to-date product documentation, including Features and Feature Success Criteria, User Stories and User Story Acceptance Criteria, and meeting notes Monitor the progress of product development, ensuring that features are ready for sprints and delivery timelines are met Participate in Agile ceremonies, contributing to the continuous improvement of Agile practices within the team Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that the product meets customer needs and business objectives Support the team in understanding and implementing Agile product management fundamentals and best practices Potentially lead projects or project steps within a broader project
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- A minimum of 4-6 years of experience in the Product Owner role with emphasis on translating complex business requirements into Features and User Stories
- Excellent documentation skills to maintain clear and up-to-date product and project documentation, including Features and Feature Success Criteria, User Stories and User Story Acceptance Criteria
- Strong collaboration skills across cross-functional teams to facilitate complex project delivery
- Strong communication skills to work closely with stakeholders and ensure the product meets customer needs and business objectives
- Proven ability to develop and manage product backlogs, ensuring alignment with product vision and strategy
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and participation in Agile ceremonies
- Ability to support the team in understanding and implementing Agile product management fundamentals and best practices
- Complex Requirements Elicitation and Documentation skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent time management and self-organization skills
- Proven ability to multitask across multiple projects with varying levels of complexity
- Tolerance for ambiguity and quickly shifting priorities to stay aligned with company vision and goals
- Ability to work collaboratively with team members and willingness to consider different ways of doing things
- Familiarity with compensation-related mathematical functions and formulas, or ability and willingness to quickly learn business rules for compensation and apply relevant mathematical functions and formulas
- Familiarity with Life and Disability insurance principles, or ability and willingness to quickly learn them
- Agile Ceremony Facilitation
- Basic Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to support User Acceptance Testing
- Scrum (Agile) methodology
- JIRA/JIRA Align expertise including building reports and dashboards
Responsibilities
- Work on a dedicated team of Business Analysts and Business Product Owners to develop and manage the product backlog, ensuring it aligns with the overall product vision and strategy
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and refine requirements, ensuring they are well-documented and prioritized
- Maintain clear and up-to-date product documentation, including Features and Feature Success Criteria, User Stories and User Story Acceptance Criteria, and meeting notes
- Monitor the progress of product development, ensuring that features are ready for sprints and delivery timelines are met
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, contributing to the continuous improvement of Agile practices within the team
- Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that the product meets customer needs and business objectives
- Support the team in understanding and implementing Agile product management fundamentals and best practices
- Potentially lead projects or project steps within a broader project
Benefits
- At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals.
- Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
- As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues.
- Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
