What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Product Owner, Sales Compensation position at Guardian Life Insurance Company?
As a Product Owner, Distribution Sales Compensation Administration (DSCA), you will be responsible for translating the product vision and strategy into actionable tasks, ensuring alignment with customer needs and organizational goals. The Product Owner role involves close collaboration with various partners to clarify requirements, prioritize tasks, and maintain up-to-date product documentation. The Product Owner will track progress to ensure timely delivery, participate in Agile ceremonies, and continuously learn Agile product management practices.
You will
- Work on a dedicated team of Business Analysts and Business Product Owners to develop and manage the product backlog, ensuring it aligns with the overall product vision and strategy
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and refine requirements, ensuring they are well-documented and prioritized
- Maintain clear and up-to-date product documentation, including Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Features and Feature Success Criteria, User Stories and User Story Acceptance Criteria, and meeting notes
- Monitor the progress of product development, ensuring that features are ready for sprints and delivery timelines are met
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, contributing to the continuous improvement of Agile practices within the team
- Work closely with partners to ensure that the product meets customer needs and business objectives
- Support the team in understanding and implementing Agile product management fundamentals and standard processes
- May lead projects or project steps within a broader project
You have
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Strong collaboration skills across cross-functional teams to gather and refine requirements.
- Strong communication skills to work closely with partners and ensure the product meets customer needs and business objectives
- Excellent documentation skills to maintain clear and up-to-date product and project documentation, including traditional business requirements, features and feature success criteria, user stories and user story acceptance criteria
- A minimum of 4-6 years of experience in product management or a related field
- Proven ability to develop and manage product backlogs, ensuring alignment with product vision and strategy
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and participation in Agile ceremonies
- Ability to support the team in understanding and implementing Agile product management fundamentals and standard processes
Required Skills
- Complex Requirements Elicitation and Documentation skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent time management and self-organization skills
- Proven ability to multitask across multiple projects with varying levels of complexity
- Tolerance for ambiguity and quickly shifting priorities to stay aligned with company vision and goals
- Ability to work collaboratively with team members and willingness to consider different ways of doing things
- Familiarity with compensation-related mathematical functions and formulas, or ability and willingness to quickly learn business rules for compensation and apply relevant mathematical functions and formulas
- Familiarity with Life and Disability insurance principles, or ability and willingness to quickly learn them
- Agile Ceremony Facilitation
- Basic Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to support User Acceptance Testing
- Scrum (Agile)
Salary Range:
$77,570.00 - $127,430.00
The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.
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www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits
. Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Accommodations
Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact
applicant_accommodation@glic.com
.
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Salary : $77,570 - $127,430