Guardian Life

Agile Product Owner I, Disability Insurance Administration

Guardian Life

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $77,570 - $127,430 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Product Owner responsible for establishing vision for an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) team and managing team backlog.
  • Identify, communicate, and decompose business requirements into small, estimated, functional, vertical user stories that fit within a single iteration.
  • Define functional and non-functional requirements in the form of acceptance criteria.
  • Prioritize and sequence stories to enhance business value while maintaining a balanced pace for the team.
  • Accept user stories as done throughout the iteration with multiple define-build-test cycles.
  • Work with Product Management Team to ensure vision, goals, and objectives are established and achieved.
  • Engage in team and Agile Release Train (ART) Agile Meetings and apply Agile approaches.
  • Use personas, empathy maps, journey maps, and story maps to guide design and describe customer experiences.
  • Leverage Agile estimation, forecasting and economic prioritization (WSJF) tools and make critical decisions regarding functionality and priority.

Requirements

  • Extensive understanding of Agile Values, Principles, and approach with a minimum of 5 years’ experience serving as a Product Owner or Product Manager.
  • Certified in Scaled Agile - SAFe® Product Owner (PO/PM)
  • Knowledge of Disability Insurance products and administration
  • Profound technical expertise and systems thinking
  • Proficiency using Confluence, JIRA, Clarity, and Jira Align.
  • Consumer centric focus with experience managing user experience components.
  • An ability to articulate and clearly communicate complex problems and solutions in a simple and logical manner.
  • Demonstrated track record in effective requirement elicitation and analysis.
  • Excellent critical thinking and communication skills.
  • Experience serving in an analytical role such as business or system analysis.
  • Self-driven with strong project management and organizational skills.
  • Experience working on platform migrations and working with vendor partners.