Agile Product Owner

$84,000 - $113,500/Yr

American National Insurance - Galveston, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Galveston, TX

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

As a Product Owner at American National Insurance, you will lead agile scrum teams to ensure effective product planning and prioritization. This role involves managing the product throughout its lifecycle, 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 the health of the product backlog and organizing sprint activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the agile scrum team(s) and ensure effective product planning and prioritization.
• Manage the product throughout its lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements.
• Work closely with agile teams to deliver value and ensure alignment with product strategy.
• Break down overall product strategy into quarterly and sprint-level goals and priorities in partnership with the Product Manager.
• Connect with customers and internal stakeholders to inform product strategy and roadmap.
• Maintain the content and integrity of the product team's backlog of stories, enablers, and defects.
• 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.
• Present working product demos to key stakeholders for awareness and input.
• Collaborate with other leaders across the ART to ensure transparency of work and alignment of priorities.
• Evaluate individual agile team members for effectiveness and contributions.

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.
• Experience with market research, competitive analysis, and technology trend analysis.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in leading, coaching, and motivating cross-functional empowered teams.
• Ability to assess the impact of new product initiatives on the delivery team environment.
• Demonstrated understanding and empathy for customer needs and pain points.

Benefits

• Paid holidays
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance