Product Owner III- Master Data Management

About the position

The Product Owner III is a member of the Agile team, aligned to GRS Business Agility Data & Analytics supporting Master Data Management and all components, representing the voice of the customer and the organization through the delivery of business value. You will work closely with stakeholders (Data Office, business, and technology), including executive leadership, to define and prioritize features and stories, ensuring alignment with customer needs and organizational goals. Understands customers' problems in detail and ensures the problems are clearly defined, prioritized and the squads/teams are focused on the most valuable work for the organization. The Product Owner III 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. Collaborates 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 our Master Data Management product vision and alignment with strategic priorities with stakeholders.
• Contributes to the development of the Data Management portfolio vision.
• Communicates the Master Data Management vision as a product strategy to their squad(s)/team(s) and other squads/teams outside their portfolio & functional area, as well as executive leadership.
• With the squad, accountable for developing and achieving product level KPIs.
• Manages product(s) with a high degree of strategy, scope, and complexity, balancing short term needs of the business with our product and portfolio vision.
• Owns and maintains the product backlog and is accountable for its contents and prioritization. Accountable for clear, actionable user stories.
• Sets priorities and actively participates in squad/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 squad/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 squad/team to remove roadblocks to execution.
• Proactively monitors the 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.
• Monitors and maintains the product health; conducts data quality assessments, producing, recommending, and implementing measures to improve mastered data accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Data cleansing of mastered data, and the remediation of data that can feed into mastered data is outside the direct accountability of the Mastered Data Management product owner; a strong collaborative partnership with the accountable peers will be needed to inform future investment cases to realize and maximize the value of mastered data.
• Works collaboratively with business stakeholders, other Portfolio Leads inside and outside of the Data & Analytics domain, Data Office, Product Owners, and Product Managers to define and embed end to end data governance standards and processes into master data management, ensuring that the value of master data management is continuously maintained or improved.
• Partners with business stakeholders, Data Office, and technical teams to design and document the processes and responsibilities to manage their product end to end, with accountability for the creation and maintenance of product SOPs.
• In office expectation of 2 days a week if located within 50 miles of a Liberty hub office, subject to change at any time.

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of Agile development methodologies as typically acquired through a Bachelors? degree in relevant field (business, computer science, humanities etc.
• 7 years in business, technology, or consulting with 5 to 7 years direct experience with agile teams.
• Master's degree preferred.
• High level of proven business expertise needed to set clear priorities for product and understand business value impacts.
• Develops strong stakeholder relationships and influencing across multiple organizational boundaries.
• Demonstrated experience leading varied audiences through the development of complex ideas, issues and designs.
• Ability to lead varied audiences through census building.
• Proven experience with Agile practices and expectations.
• Comfortable with making decisions with some level of uncertainty.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Knowledge of insurance industry preferred.
• Knowledge of relevant products and portfolio strongly preferred.
• Strong experimental mindset to drive innovation amongst uncertainty and exploit market opportunities.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and continuous learning opportunities.
• Support for a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for community and engagement.