
Senior Technical Product Owner, Guardian Insights
Guardian Life
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Boston • Massachusetts • New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $118,980 - $195,465 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Translate the product vision and strategy into a team backlog, including user stories with clear acceptance criteria and tasks, ensuring alignment with epics and customer needs
- Work closely with the Product Manager (PDM) to prioritize and implement process improvements, track progress and communicate updates to stakeholders
- Define, prioritize, and sequence product features and requirements in the team backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs
- Manage the backlog and roadmap in collaboration with the Tech Lead
- Break down data requirements into the team backlog and ensure timely and quality delivery of product functionality and desired customer experience
- Work with data and AI SMEs to ensure data and AI standards are met across applications
- Conduct go-to-market readiness activities as the team prepares for release, including reviewing the release plan with the PDM
- Bring customer feedback into prioritization to improve adoption, usability, and product impact.
- Maintain a consistent, practical quality bar—clear outcomes, intuitive user experiences, and reliable data—while saying 'no' thoughtfully to lower‑value work to protect team focus.
- Continuously scan best‑in‑class products and apply proven design and product patterns to elevate our roadmap and user experience.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- A minimum of 5-7 years of experience in product management or a related field
- Proven experience in defining and driving product roadmaps, integrating customer research, and ensuring compliance with data/AI standards
- Strong knowledge of product journey mapping, business process improvement, and OKR management
- Experience working with cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines
- Hands-on experience with APIs, payload structures, and common integration patterns
- Comfort working with relational databases (e.g., RDS, Aurora, PostgreSQL) and familiarity with event-driven architectures (e.g., SNS, Kafka) and transactional email systems (e.g., SES, SendGrid)
- Experience supporting user-facing features, including web interfaces and email experiences
- A high ownership mindset, resourcefulness, and the ability to move quickly and figure things out.
Benefits
- Opportunities to build communities and grow your career
- Skill-building
- Leadership development
- Philanthropic opportunities
- Comprehensive benefits for full-time eligible employees
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementproduct roadmapscustomer researchproduct journey mappingbusiness process improvementOKR managementAPIsrelational databasesevent-driven architecturestransactional email systems
Soft Skills
communicationteamworktime managementresourcefulnessownership mindset