What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Owner – Policy Portfolio, Core Platforms | Personal Lines position at Liberty Mutual Insurance Group?
Understands how the Policy platform supports USRM PL business products. Defines, builds alignment, and drives execution on enhancements to the platform to support business product evolution. Collaborates with stakeholders, leadership, and Technology partners to create product vision and alignment with strategic priorities; communicates product and portfolio vision to squads and cross-functional teams outside the portfolio. Owns and maintains a Policy software product backlog, accountable for its contents, prioritization, and acceptance criteria. Ensures clear, actionable user stories across multiple squads. Develops and maintains both short-term (1-year / 4 program increment) and long-term (3-year) product roadmaps that reflect stakeholder needs, technical dependencies, and strategic platform direction. Sets priorities and actively participates in squad-level and portfolio program increment planning. Collaborates with peer Product Owners and Policy Portfolio leadership to align cross-portfolio priorities. Works daily with engineering squads, clarifying business requirements, leading agile ceremonies, removing roadblocks, and maintaining alignment around policy strategy. Collaborates with technology partners and enterprise architecture to evaluate and evolve policy capabilities in alignment with the organization's platform modernization. Monitors and maintains product health for owned capabilities, balancing short- and long-term costs with desired outcomes. Applies data-informed decision making by analyzing feasibility, cost of delay, and other dimensions of planned or potential product changes; communicates trade-offs clearly to stakeholders and leadership. Sets and manages stakeholder expectations for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities. Understands regulatory, compliance, and industry constraints relevant to the policy portfolio and prioritizes accordingly. Contributes to customer-driven design and ensures the product remains well-positioned through obtaining feedback from consumers and taking best practices from similar platforms. Outcome-oriented product thinker: Operates at both the tactical and strategic level, translating long-term vision into actionable roadmaps and near-term delivery. Cross-functional collaborator: Builds strong relationships across business, technology, and architecture stakeholders to drive aligned outcomes. Adaptable and resilient: Thrives in evolving, modernizing environments where priorities shift and ambiguity is part of the landscape. Multi-team leader: Experienced leading and aligning multiple squads toward a shared product vision. Platform modernization experience: Familiarity with insurance policy platforms, API products, and/or modernization initiatives in an evolving technology environment. Demonstrated ability to develop and communicate strategic product roadmaps across short- and long-term horizons. Able to influence a diverse group of stakeholders; strong leadership skills. Experience with API products or platform data capabilities is a plus. Strong problem solver with demonstrated ability to lead a team to push the solutions and progress. Experience in the insurance industry preferred. Strong strategic mindset to drive innovation amongst uncertainty.