Agile Product Owner

American National Insurance - Galveston, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Galveston, TX

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

As a Product Owner, you will lead agile scrum teams to ensure effective product planning and prioritization throughout the product lifecycle. This role involves managing the product backlog, gathering and prioritizing customer requirements, and collaborating closely with agile teams to deliver value. You will bridge the gap between product strategy and development, ensuring alignment with revenue and customer satisfaction goals.

Responsibilities

• Break down overall product strategy and roadmap into quarterly program increment and sprint level goals and priorities in partnership with the Product Manager.
• Connect with customers and internal stakeholders to inform the product strategy and roadmap, including competitive knowledge and industry trends.
• Maintain the content and integrity of the product team's backlog of stories, enablers, and defects, ensuring stories represent the intent of agile release train (ART) level features.
• Prioritize the sequence of backlog items and communicate that sequence to the product team during backlog refinement and iteration planning.
• Model servant leadership to the product team and incorporate feedback from team retrospectives into future delivery activities.
• Ensure working product demos are presented to key stakeholders for awareness, transparency, and input.
• Collaborate with other leaders across the ART to ensure transparency of work, understanding dependencies, and aligning priorities.
• Evaluate individual agile team members for effectiveness and contributions, ensuring high-performing teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• At least three years of agile Product Owner experience in scrum and scaled agile environments.
• Experience delivering software products using agile principles, including planning and estimating with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Proven track record of bringing successful products to market on time, incorporating various development and delivery strategies.
• Proven success in leading, coaching, and motivating cross-functional empowered teams.
• Experience with market research, competitive analysis, and technology trend analysis.
• Ability to assess the impact of new product initiatives on the delivery team environment.
• Demonstrated understanding and empathy for customer needs and pain points, amplifying the voice of the customer throughout product development.
• Facilitation and collaboration skills, including the ability to facilitate decision-making and broker agreements among diverse perspectives.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Basic life insurance
• 401k plan
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Inclusive work environment
• Development opportunities
• Casual dress code