Product Owner - Senior

The experience expected from applicants, as well as additional skills and qualifications needed for this job are listed below.

Product Owner Senior

Job Summary :

The Product Owner is a product management team member who ensures that each product delivers maximum value to its users and customers.

The Product Owner emphasizes outcomes over outputs and continuous evaluation of the performance of our products and investments in each to generate actionable intelligence used to inform the next wave of value.

Job Duties :

• Facilitates a work environment that fosters and supports ethical decision-making and actions by motivating, promoting, and modeling ethical behavior.
• Partners and engages with product management, stakeholders, and customers to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.
• Manages 1-5 Product Backlogs and leads collaboration with architects, engineering leads, and other SMEs to deconstruct initiatives into features.
• Leads the agile product design process working with Agile teams and across Agile Release Trains.
• Ensures stakeholders are continuously aligned and aware of delivery progress, performance, and overall product performance.
• Evaluates and scores Agile team PI Objectives to ensure strong alignment to goals.
• Enables Agile teams to effectively apply Agile Product Development practices, tools, and techniques.
• Contributes to change management and product launch plans.

Knowledge Required :

• Exhibits an Agile Mindset, emphasizing respect for others, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Strong understanding of Product Lifecycle Management phases.
• Strong knowledge of product management tools and industry data sources.
• Strong understanding of Lean Agile practices, principles, and frameworks.

Skills & Abilities Required :

• Communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to connect people and teams to vision and strategy.
• Product development and requirement engineering skills.
• Ability to engage, influence, and inspire teams and stakeholders.
• Driven, self-starter, with personal accountability.
• Product visioning, road mapping, and backlog management.

Relevant Experience Required :

• 5 or more years’ experience working as a Product Owner and / or Product Manager.
• 3 years of experience working in an Agile environment.
• 3 years hands-on experience with Agile product lifecycle management tools.
• In lieu of experience, may consider those with 5 or more years relevant experience as a Business Analyst, Project Manager, or Program Manager in an Agile software development environment.

Education Required :

High School Diploma GED

Bachelor’s Degree OR 3 years relevant experience, OR a combination of college education and relevant experience equivalent to 3 years.

Preferred Experience :

• Product development experience in the insurance industry.
• Experience using Rally software to enable Agile product delivery.
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience and certifications.
• Experience utilizing Kanban methods.

Physical Requirements :

Occasional travel required.

Citizens is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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