Agile Product Owner

The Hartford

Agile Product Owner delivering high-impact digital experiences across Employee Benefits platform. Collaborating with teams to translate business needs into actionable work items and ensuring successful sprint delivery.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeRemote • Connecticut • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $100,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the overall health of the team backlog, ensuring features and stories are well-defined, prioritized, and ready for development
Own the prioritization of all features and stories to ensure close alignment with digital outcomes and objectives
Own the breakdown of the epics into features and document clearly and timely for refinement and PI planning
Partner with process and business analysts to have clear, concise user stories and acceptance criteria documented and aligned to features and priorities
Lead and/or participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and daily execution support
Partner with the team to clarify requirements and remove blockers
Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities within the team's Agile processes
Collaborate with Agile Product Managers and senior Product Owners to execute against the product roadmap
Ensure delivered features meet defined acceptance criteria and business expectations
Assist in coordinating dependencies and aligning work across teams
Work closely with engineering, UX, and business partners to ensure shared understanding of requirements
Communicate effectively and confidently with stakeholders on progress, risks/challenges, and delivery outcomes
Leverage customer feedback, analytics, and stakeholder input to inform backlog priorities

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of experience in product ownership, business analysis, or digital product delivery
Strong experience in the Agile/Scrum environment
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to break down complex problems into clear, actionable work items
Ability to manage stakeholders with high degree of professionalism
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
High degree of curiosity and intrinsic motivation
Experience supporting digital products or customer-facing platforms (Preferred)
Familiarity with backlog management tools (e.g Jira, Rally) (Preferred)
Basic understanding of analytics and customer experience principles (Preferred)
Interest in building a career in Product Management (Preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses
long-term incentives
on-the-spot recognition

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Hard Skills & Tools

product ownershipbusiness analysisdigital product deliveryAgileScrumbacklog managementanalyticscustomer experience principles

Soft Skills

written communicationverbal communicationproblem-solvingstakeholder managementorganizational skillsattention to detailcuriosityintrinsic motivation