Product Owner

Description Help get critical pricing updates in market for Small Commercial products! As the Product Owner for one of our Commercial Auto squads, you'll own the backlog behind the pricing changes that reach our Small Commercial customers and agents, balancing speed, quality, and capacity. You'll work side by side with pricing, product, and technology partners, with real visibility across the portfolio and a direct line to business results. If you love turning complex, ambiguous problems into clear priorities and delivered value, this is your seat. As a member of the Agile team, the Product Owner represents the voice of the customer and the organization through the delivery of business value. This Product Owner role is within our Small Commercial Risk Pricing space, delivering critical pricing updates to our Small Commercial products. This person works closely with stakeholders (business and technology), including LOB leadership, to define and prioritize features and stories, ensuring alignment with customer needs and organizational goals. This person understands customers problems in detail and ensures the problems are clearly defined, prioritized and the squad/team is focused on the most valuable work. The Product Owner is the team member always communicating with stakeholders to ensure an aligned understanding of how the squad/team can provide the highest value to the customer through the lens of the portfolio. This person collaborates with squads/teams, technologies and architects across portfolios to develop a deep understanding of the technologies and systems they support.<br><br><strong>Responsibilities </strong><ul><li>Collaborates to create product vision and alignment with strategic priorities with stakeholders. Contributes to the development of the portfolio vision. Communicates product and portfolio vision to their squad/team and other squads/teams outside their portfolio/functional area.</li><li>With the squad/team, collaboratively accountable for developing and achieving product level KPIs. Manages product(s) with a moderate degree of strategy, scope, and complexity.</li><li>Owns and maintains the product backlog and is accountable for its contents and prioritization. Accountable for clear, actionable user stories.</li><li>Sets priorities and actively participates in squad/team quarterly planning. Collaborates with more senior Product Owners to set priorities for portfolio quarterly planning.</li><li>Sets expectations with stakeholders for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities. Participates in squad/team demos, retrospectives, and all other ceremonies.</li><li>Works daily with the agile working group, clarifying business requirements, removing roadblocks, constantly communicating, and supporting alignment around product strategy.</li><li>Collaborates with IT and business leadership to align development and business goals and priorities while working with stakeholders and squad/team to remove roadblocks to execution. Resolves open issues/questions quickly and efficiently.</li><li>Monitors and maintains the product health, supporting long-term product viability and efficiency, and balancing long and short term and costs with desired outcomes.</li><li>Analyzes and reports on feasibility, cost of delay ramifications, economies, or other aspects of planned or potential changes to the product.</li><li>Understands regulatory, compliance, and other industry constraints on the product and prioritizes accordingly. Negotiates with internal and external squads/teams to ensure priorities are aligned across squads/teams both within and outside the portfolio.</li><li>Collaboratively builds the squad/team product roadmap, contributes to strategy inputs from stakeholders. May contribute to program/portfolio level planning. Influences stakeholder expectations for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities.</li><li>Communicates expected value and any changes in value to be delivered in each it