Product Owner

This is a grade range posting 17/18 (PO-II/PO-III). Your background and qualifications will be evaluated against the skills and experiences required for the position.

Join USRM's Experience & Strategy team as a Product Owner (PO) supporting the delivery of new Sales Experiences for our Direct go-to-market vertical. The Distribution domain is on a journey to build modern sales experiences for our Insurance Professionals called Olympus; a critical enabler of our Frontier program. This PO role will own a portion of the Olympus sales experience product vision & strategy for the Direct Response Center (DRC) and Direct channel. The focus will be on enabling the Home product line onto the Olympus experience, spanning Oasis2, HMR 3.0, and future OneProperty rating programs. This role will report to the Olympus Sr Product Owner in the I Buy / I Sell Insurance Professional; Direct & Frontier portfolio. The portfolio's mission is to "Empower our internal & external insurance professionals to deliver value for their customers and Liberty through profitable New Business Growth. We do this through Sales Experiences that delight users and deliver accurate & efficient quotes."

As a member of the Agile team, this Product Owner will represent the voice of the customer and the organization through the delivery of business value. You will work closely with stakeholders (business and technology), including executive leadership, to define and prioritize features and stories, ensuring alignment with customer needs and organizational goals.

The Product Owner understands customers' problems in detail and ensures the problems are clearly defined, prioritized and the squad/team is focused on the most valuable work for the organization. The Product Owner is the team member always communicating with stakeholders to ensure an aligned understanding of how the squad/team can

provide the highest value for the customer through the lens of the organization. The Product Owner works with squads/teams, technologies and architects

across the organization to develop a deep understanding of the technologies and systems they support.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for collaboratively creating Olympus Home product vision and alignment with strategic priorities with stakeholders. Contributes to the development of the portfolio vision. Communicates the vision as a product strategy to their engineering team and other teams outside their portfolio & functional area as well as executive leadership.
• Develop and achieve Olympus Home product level KPIs. Manage products with high degree of strategy, scope, and complexity.
• Owns and maintains the Olympus Home product backlog and is accountable for its contents and prioritization. Accountable for clear, actionable user stories.
• Sets priorities and actively participates in team quarterly planning. Contributes to priorities for and actively participates in portfolio quarterly planning. Sets expectations with stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.
• Participates in team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.
• Works daily with the agile working group clarifying business requirements, removing roadblocks, constantly communicating, and supporting alignment around product strategy.
• Leads IT and business leadership to align development and business goals and priorities while working with stakeholders and team to remove roadblocks to execution.
• Monitors and maintains the Olympus Home product health. Designs additional monitoring to support enhanced understanding of product health. Proactively monitors impact of their product on others in the ecosystem.
• Analyzes and reports on feasibility, cost of delay ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential changes to the product.
• Drives alignment with stakeholders to understand the impact that their products' regulatory, compliance, and other industry constraints will have on other products in the portfolio. Negotiates with internal and external squads/teams to set aligned priorities among squads/teams both within and outside the portfolio.