Product Owner – Life, Health, Annuity
Thrivent
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Minneapolis • Minnesota • United States
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Salary
💰 $114,731 - $155,224 per year
About the role
- Works as a key team member on a cross functional team, responsible for continuous delivery of value to the customer through compelling and empowering customer experiences.
- Collaborate with Product Manager and stakeholders to ensure work prioritization is aligned with Thrivent’s priorities and overall product roadmap as well as to provide product development feedback and direction.
- Continuously innovates and evolves the product in alignment with strategic priorities.
- Is responsible for creating, maintaining, and evolving the product roadmap.
- Maintain and refine product backlog: Create user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy.
- Ensure stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product.
- Is available for consultation during agile team planning and grooming sessions as needed.
- Works with other product teams/owners to align product roadmaps and sprint plans, and to focus on delivering the maximum business value to the organization.
- Working as a part of an agile team, ensures the team is aligned around similar goals and objectives and attending all team meetings.
- Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs.
- Develop and track key value drivers that measure effectiveness of product discovery and overall product performance and communicate these to stakeholders and business leaders on a regular basis.
- Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles.
- Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization’s direction (Product/Agile/DevOps).
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- 4-6 years relevant business experience
- Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures
- Familiarity with principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design
- High level of organization and attention to detail
- Passion and understanding of new technology and trends
- Strong communication abilities to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organization
- Certified Product Owner or similar certification (preferred)
- Experience developing business cases, roadmaps, product execution strategies (preferred)
- Ability to prioritize work against enterprise, division, and product strategies (preferred)
- Can effectively communicate rationale and impact for prioritization choices (preferred)
- Experience in defining high-quality business requirements and proficient in Agile story writing (preferred)
- Experience with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle (preferred)
- Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships (preferred)
- Demonstrated experience with user interface design and best practices for usability (preferred)
- Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives (preferred)
- Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint (preferred).
Benefits
- various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives)
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- health savings account
- flexible spending account
- 401k
- pension
- life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- disability insurance
- supplemental protection insurance
- 20 days of Paid Time Off each year
- Sick and Safe Time
- 10 paid company holidays
- Volunteer Time Off
- paid parental leave
- EAP
- well-being benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Agile Product Managementiterative developmentproduct roadmap developmentuser story creationacceptance criteria definitionbusiness case developmentproduct execution strategieshigh-quality business requirementsuser interface designproduct management principles
Soft Skills
strong communicationhigh level of organizationattention to detailleadershipmotivationcollaborationcustomer engagementsense of urgencyinspirationstakeholder management
Certifications
Certified Product Owner