Senior Product Owner, New Business Underwriting

Guardian Life Insurance Company•Boston, MA

15d•Hybrid

About The Position

Senior Product Owner, New Business Underwriting Role Summary As the Senior Product Owner – New Business Underwriting, you will focus on maximizing the value of the product by leading the ‘feature’ vision and managing the team backlog in collaboration with the Tech Leads. The Senior Product Owner works closely within their team to ensure that the product strategy and vision from the Product Manager translates into development by the team. Additionally, the Senior Product Owner acts as the bridge between the development team and other product stakeholders (including the Tech Lead and Product Managers), ensuring the product meets business needs. You will: Translate the product vision and strategy into a team backlog, including user stories with clear acceptance criteria and tasks, ensuring alignment with epics and customer needs Work closely with the Product Manager to prioritize and implement process improvements, track progress and communicate updates to stakeholders Define, prioritize, and sequence product features and requirements in the team backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs Manage the backlog and roadmap in collaboration with the Tech Lead Break down data requirements into the team backlog and ensure timely and quality delivery of product functionality and desired customer experience Work with data and AI SMEs to ensure data and AI standards are met across applications Conduct go-to-market readiness activities as the team prepares for release, including reviewing the release plan with the PDM

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
A minimum of 5-7 years of experience in product management or a related field
Proven experience in defining and driving product roadmaps, integrating customer research, and ensuring compliance with data/AI standards
Strong knowledge of product journey mapping, business process improvement, and OKR management
Experience working with cross-functional teams
Excellent communication and teamwork skills
Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines
Objectives and Key Results (OKR)
Product Requirements
Product Backlog Management
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Solution Delivery

Nice To Haves

Previous experience with Rating or Underwriting, preferrred

Responsibilities

Translate the product vision and strategy into a team backlog, including user stories with clear acceptance criteria and tasks, ensuring alignment with epics and customer needs
Work closely with the Product Manager to prioritize and implement process improvements, track progress and communicate updates to stakeholders
Define, prioritize, and sequence product features and requirements in the team backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs
Manage the backlog and roadmap in collaboration with the Tech Lead
Break down data requirements into the team backlog and ensure timely and quality delivery of product functionality and desired customer experience
Work with data and AI SMEs to ensure data and AI standards are met across applications
Conduct go-to-market readiness activities as the team prepares for release, including reviewing the release plan with the PDM

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.
Inspire Well-Being 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 . Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees.
Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
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