Product Owner

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Job Summary
Are you passionate about data and innovative technology? CNA’s Analytics organization is looking for candidates who want to use cutting edge, cloud-based technology to deliver valuable insights to our business teams. The Data Analytics Solutions Hub combines the best of IT, Analytics, and Data Engineering in order to innovate and deliver at the pace of a start-up.

This is an individual contributor role that serves as the customer proxy to the Agile team within the agile process and is the final authority for decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the Agile development team. The Product Owner possesses an in-depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the work. They will own, define, and prioritize the team backlog, establish story acceptance criteria, drive content via prioritized user stories, obtain customer validation and accept stories, ensuring that the solution effectively addresses overall program priorities. The Product Owner may be working on a Scaled Agile Release Train as part of the Product Management team, or they may work on an independent Agile team and have Feature as well as story ownership.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines:

• Supports one to two Agile Scrum teams on initiatives of medium to large complexity

• Owns, defines, and prioritizes the team backlog, establishes story acceptance criteria, drives content via prioritized user stories, obtains customer validation and accepts stories, ensuring that the solution effectively addresses overall program priorities.

• Attends Scrum ceremonies (such as daily standups, sprint review meetings, retrospective meetings, cross-team coordination, etc.) alongside the Scrum Master, ensuring that Scrum Teams adhere to the Scrum values of courage, focus, commitment, respect, and openness in delivering high quality solutions. Fosters an environment of continuous improvement / learning.

• Facilitates Product Backlog Refinement including reviewing and updating backlog item definition and developing acceptance criteria and value statements, providing information to the team so they can establish technical feasibility and scope estimates, analyzing ways to split backlog items into smaller chunks of incremental value, helping to inform the enablers required to support new features and capabilities, and establishing their capacity allocation.

• Builds customer and user insights into all stages of the Scrum planning and execution process, ensuring the continuous validation of stories with Customers and business users.

• Proactively reviews metrics and stakeholder feedback for continuous improvement opportunities.

• May collaborate with Product Managers, Senior Product Owners, and other Product Owners, to ensure Stories align to value, goals, and objectives of overall program priorities.

May perform additional duties as assigned.

Reporting Relationship

Typically Manager or above
 
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Insurance industry experience strongly preferred

• Strong understanding of Agile technologies and methodologies 

• High learning agility, early adopter with developing level of impact / emerging strong track record

• Ability to build and maintain relationships with the team and stakeholders

• Willingness to develop conflict resolution skills

• Ability to enact change quickly

• Example to Agile team members by inspiring, encouraging, and providing constructive feedback

• Good leadership skills

• Ability to work directly with Product Management, business stakeholders, and technical/product teams

• Some domain knowledge of solutions being developed, particularly regarding data-oriented solutions

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

• Typically a minimum of two years as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Project Manager, or related role

• Experience with insurance, finance, and/or data based products

• Successful track record with Agile methodologies

• Applicable certifications preferred (e.g. SAFe PO/PM, CSPO, or PSPO)

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In certain jurisdictions, CNA is legally required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. In District of Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Washington, the national base pay range for this job level is $54,000 to $103,000 annually. Salary determinations are based on various factors, including but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. CNA offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to help our employees – and their family members – achieve their physical, financial, emotional and social wellbeing goals.  For a detailed look at CNA’s benefits, please visit cnabenefits.com.

CNA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the recruitment process. To request an accommodation, please contact [email protected].