Senior Agile Product Owner
The Hartford
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Connecticut • United States
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Salary
💰 $116,000 - $174,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead product execution for two or more Agile teams
- Independently own and manage the team-level product backlog for GyroScope, ensuring work is clearly defined, prioritized, and aligned to Program and Enterprise objectives
- Translate business needs into well-defined features, user stories, and acceptance criteria that support claims processing, integrations, and regulatory requirements
- Partner with APMs, Engineering Leads, Business Analysts, QA, and Scrum Masters to drive refinement, sprint planning, and delivery
- Serve as a primary liaison between Claims business stakeholders, Production Support/Run teams, and technology partners
- Participate actively in PI Planning, Sprint Reviews, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt events
- Provide perspective on portfolio vision and roadmap and articulate that vision to the agile teams ensuring they have a clear understanding
- Accountable for the health, readiness and prioritization of the team backlog
- Lead, coach, mentor and assist other agile team members when necessary and ensure the team breaks down, prioritizes and completes work from agile team product backlog and in adherence to acceptance criteria
- Balance new feature delivery with production stability, operational hygiene, and defect management
- Ensure solutions support security, data governance, and compliance standards within GyroScope
- Leverage metrics and feedback to continuously improve product outcomes and team effectiveness
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience as an Agile Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Systems leadership roles
- Strong experience working in Agile / SAFe environments, preferably within large-scale enterprise platforms
- Proven ability to manage complex backlogs supporting integrations, workflows, and operational systems
- Experience partnering with Claims, Operations, or Insurance business stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced, production-critical environment
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills and ability to connect the dots and solve business problems
- Acts as a coach and mentor to developing APOs within the portfolio while contributing thought leadership and best practices to the Agile Product Management community of practice
- Demonstrates working knowledge of Microsoft Copilot and other AI tools, leveraging them to improve product delivery and decision-making.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Short-term or annual bonuses
- Long-term incentives
- On-the-spot recognition
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Hard Skills & Tools
Agile Product OwnerProduct ManagerBusiness Systems leadershipbacklog managementclaims processingintegrationsuser storiesacceptance criteriaSAFedefect management
Soft Skills
communication skillsinfluencecritical thinkingproblem-solvingcoachingmentoringleadershipcollaborationadaptabilityteam effectiveness