Product Owner, Manager

OneAmerica Financial•Indianapolis, IN

143d•Hybrid

About The Position

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 define and prioritize product outcomes, ensuring delivery aligns business, customer, and stakeholder needs while partnering with Scrum Masters and technical teams to support successful execution. They understand the customer needs and translate customer and stakeholder objectives into defined epics, features, and user stories. They steward product roadmaps and backlogs, partner with architects and technical teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and integrations requirements and assess delivered outcomes against customer and business needs. 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.

Requirements

2-5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, Solution Analyst, or similar role supporting enterprise technology products, platforms, or shared capabilities.
Experience working in Agile delivery environments with responsibility for backlog management, prioritization, stakeholder engagement, and requirements definition.
Experience supporting products or platforms that serve multiple business functions, teams, or customer journeys.
Experience working across business and technical stakeholders to define, prioritize, and deliver technology-enabled capabilities.
Experience managing dependencies and aligning priorities across multiple teams, business partners, or technology stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience with identity and access management, authentication, authorization, user provisioning, or customer registration capabilities.
Experience supporting workflow, case management, document management, or business process automation platforms.
Experience working with telephony, contact-center, customer service, or service operation technologies.
Experience supporting highly integrated platforms involving APIs, enterprise data exchanges, and cross-system workflows.
Experience working within insurance, financial services, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries.

Responsibilities

Evaluates opportunities through a customer, business and enterprise lens, helping determine not only what should be built, but whether their product is the most appropriate solution to address the need.
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.
Builds alignment across business, product, and technology stakeholders by influencing without authority, facilitating effective tradeoff discussions, and communicating priorities, risks, and rationale clearly.
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 Scrum Masters, Team-of-Teams Leads, architects, and business stakeholders to align priorities, manage visibility into delivery risks and outcomes.
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.