Product Owner I
Galveston, TX, US, 77550
Job Posting
As a Product Owner at American National you will bridge the gap between product strategy and development as you lead an agile scrum team focused on our client facing applications to ensure product planning and effective prioritization. You will excel in this role if you have an agile/scrum background, have advanced skills in planning and organization, and feel comfortable leading meetings and prioritizing tasks. This is an in-office position out of our corporate locations in Springfield, MO; Albany, NY; or Galveston, TX.
What Will You Do?
• Breaks down overall product strategy and roadmap into program increment (quarterly) and sprint level goals and priorities (in partnership with the Product Manager).
• Connects with clients and internal stakeholders needs to inform the product strategy and roadmap. This includes relevant competitive knowledge and industry trends.
• Maintains the content and integrity of the product team’s backlog of stories, enablers, and defects. Collaborate with product team to ensure stories are defined, well informed and represent the intent of agile release train (ART) level features.
• Prioritizes the sequence of the backlog items and communicates that sequence to the product team during backlog refinement and iteration planning.
• Models servant leadership to the product team and incorporates feedback and suggestions made during team retrospectives into future delivery activities.
• Ensures working product demos are presented to key stakeholders for awareness, transparency, and input.
• Collaborates with other leaders across the ART to ensure transparency of work, dependencies are understood and properly sequenced, working methods are consistent across the teams, and priorities are aligned-on.
• Evaluates the individual agile team members for effectiveness and contributions and ensuring the teams are high performing. This includes making recommendations to remove or add team members as needed.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree.
• At least three years of agile Product Owner experience in scrum and scaled agile environments.
• Experience delivering software products using agile principles, including planning and estimating with a continuous improvement mindset with a proven track record of bringing successful products to market on time.
• Proven success in leading, coaching, and motivating cross-functional empowered teams.
• Demonstrated understanding and empathy for customer needs and pain points, amplifying the voice of the customer throughout product development and delivery.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, particularly with establishing and advocating for both customer and delivery team points of view.
• Experience communicating and presenting complex information to multiple levels of the organization, translating data into understandable, actionable information and recommendations.
• Ability to make timely and independent decisions while working in a fast-paced and results driven environment, making adjustments, and course corrections in close partnership with delivery teams.
Salary for this position can range from $$78,429.00 for candidates who are minimally qualified through $100,000 for more highly qualified candidates. Candidates outside of the range are encouraged to apply, and will be considered based on experience, skill and education.
American National offers eligible employees and their families medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees also receive annually a bank of paid time off and paid holidays. We aspire to see people for what they bring to our corporate culture by supporting an inclusive work environment, including an emphasis on a healthy work-life balance, development opportunities, and a casual dress code.
American National is an established, stable, and successful multi-line insurance corporation that has provided financial strength and a sense of security to employees, customers and business partners since 1905. With focus on our organization’s values and cultural richness: Financial Strength, Integrity, Respect, Service and Teamwork (FIRST) and Agility, Collaboration, and Engagement (ACE) we continue to pursue our vision to be a leading provider of financial products and services for current and future generations.
Hiring Practices
The preceding job posting was designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this position. It is not intended to be interpreted as a comprehensive list of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job qualifications, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this position or other opportunities at American National.
American National’s recruitment policies help us place individuals in a timely and efficient manner. Only the most qualified candidates will be contacted by our recruiting team. Candidates may check the status of their application(s) by logging into our Career Portal. Learn more about our company, by following us on social media: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram
American National is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, genetic information or any other legally protected categories. American National is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
Nearest Major Market: Galveston
Nearest Secondary Market: Houston
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