Product Owner, Manager (Employee Benefits Portal)

Preparing for the Future•Indianapolis, IN

19h•Hybrid

About The Position

At OneAmerica Financial, our purpose is to create more certainty for our customers that leads to better moments, every day. Our commitment is to advance stability and growth in every solution and relationship. We deliver financial strength that builds for generations, and we are always aspiring, looking ahead, and collaborating to achieve more, together. Come be a part of this journey with us as we champion lives! The Product Owner, Manager is responsible for collaborating with business, customer, and technical stakeholders while owning and managing the product backlog for a specific product or feature set. They drive product execution and ensure delivery aligns with business and stakeholder outcomes. They understand the customer needs and translate customer and stakeholder objectives into defined epics, features, and user stories. They steward roadmaps, required integrations, data and architectural pattern adherence, manage backlogs, and assess team outputs. They contribute to the vision and roadmap on behalf of their product, represent the voice of the customer whether internal or external, and assess team outputs to ensure adequacy against requirements. Primary duties may include, but are not limited to: Owns and prioritizes the product backlog, ensuring alignment to business objectives, customer needs, and regulatory or compliance constraints. Acts as the voice of the customer, translating stakeholder input, market insights, and user feedback into clear, actionable user stories and backlog items. Represents business and customer needs with clarity and depth, bridging strategic goals with team-level delivery through well-defined, outcome-driven priorities. Communicates and makes decisions with confidence and clarity, ensuring that value expectations and scope changes are transparent and agreed upon throughout delivery cycles. Collaborates with the Team-of-Teams Lead to align on execution priorities and delivery goals, while proactively helping to remove blockers and support delivery flow. Continuously assesses team outputs against requirements, ensuring delivered features meet intended outcomes, acceptance criteria, and customer satisfaction goals. Monitors product health and viability, balancing short-term delivery pressures with long-term vision, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability of the product roadmap. Scope: Manages a single product or feature set within a team. Autonomy: Operates under guidance from senior roles or product leadership. Influence: Limited to team-level decisions; collaborates with stakeholders but doesn’t drive strategy. Complexity: Focuses on execution—writing user stories, managing backlog, and ensuring sprint delivery.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree
2 years in Product Owner roles using Agile/Scrum

Responsibilities

Owns and prioritizes the product backlog, ensuring alignment to business objectives, customer needs, and regulatory or compliance constraints.
Acts as the voice of the customer, translating stakeholder input, market insights, and user feedback into clear, actionable user stories and backlog items.
Represents business and customer needs with clarity and depth, bridging strategic goals with team-level delivery through well-defined, outcome-driven priorities.
Communicates and makes decisions with confidence and clarity, ensuring that value expectations and scope changes are transparent and agreed upon throughout delivery cycles.
Collaborates with the Team-of-Teams Lead to align on execution priorities and delivery goals, while proactively helping to remove blockers and support delivery flow.
Continuously assesses team outputs against requirements, ensuring delivered features meet intended outcomes, acceptance criteria, and customer satisfaction goals.
Monitors product health and viability, balancing short-term delivery pressures with long-term vision, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability of the product roadmap.