Product Owner

At The Standard, you’ll join a team focused on putting our customers first.
Our continued success is driven by a high-performance culture. We’re looking for people who are collaborative, accountable, creative, agile and are driven by a passion for doing what’s right – across the company and in our local communities.
We offer a caring culture where you can make a real difference, every day.
 
Ready to reach your highest potential? Let’s work together.

Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for the preparation and participation in PI Planning.

• Collaborates with Product Manager on feature creation and Program Backlog prioritization.

• Establishes and maintains roadmap for the product

• Accountable for the health and readiness of the team backlog

• Manages and prioritizes the flow of work through team Kanban

• Reviews acceptance criteria and accepts user stories

• Understands enabler work and collaborates with product analysts and engineers to define and prioritize effectively in the backlog

• Integrates usability studies, research, and market analysis in product solutions to enhance user satisfaction

• Analyzes metrics and analytics to make data informed decisions

• Keeps pulse on the customers, anticipates bottlenecks, makes tradeoffs, and takes acceptable risks to maximize the benefit for our customer and business

Key Behaviors:

• Curiosity – ensures that user stories drive the associated value to the customer

• Exhibits bias-to-action, and avoids analysis-paralysis

• Separates what must be done now, and what can be improved later

• Willing to take intelligent risks

Education, Experience, & Professional Certifications: Typically require experience with is that has been gained via a combination of formal education, certification processes, and/or practical experience per the following:

Required: A minimum of 5+ year of progressive experience in providing business analysis in employee benefits, financial services, technology delivery, or other related fields. Must excel working in team-oriented roles that rely on ability to collaborate with others.

Desired: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Information Technology or a related field. 5+ years experience in scaled Agile delivery preferred. Strong communication skills including active listening and effective presentation of ideas, 

Knowledge & Skills: Must exhibit strong consumer instincts, intuitively understands why product ideas will succeed, excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to communicate with a wide range of team members and job functions-all the way up to executives, experience with hypothesis-driven learning and turning data into actionable insights, exhibits bias-to-action, and avoids analysis paralysis, separates what must be done now, and what can be improved later, willing to take intelligent risks.

Job Complexity & Judgment: 

The Product Owners is the member of the Agile team who serves the customer proxy responsible for working with Product Management and is responsible for leading an agile team.

Independence & Supv required: 

Experienced in guiding and coaching Agile Teams. Ability to operate autonomously by delivering independently with limited guidance.

Interaction & Influence: This role has significant relationships and responsibilities outside the local team, including working with product management, customers and business owners and other stakeholders including other Product Owners.

Please note - the salary range for this role is listed below. In addition to salary, our package includes incentive plan participation and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits, as well as an initial PTO accrual of 164 hours per year. Employees also receive 11 paid holidays and 2 wellness days per year.

• Eligibility to participate in an incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program and plan. Any award depends on various factors, including individual and organizational performance.

Salary Range:

$104,750.00 - $178,000.00

Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Equities, Inc. and StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., marketed as The Standard, are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status or any other condition protected by federal, state or local law. The Standard offers a drug and alcohol free work environment where possession, manufacture, transfer, offer, use of or being impaired by an illegal substance while on Standard property, or in other cases which the company believes might affect operations, safety or reputation of the company is prohibited. The Standard requires a criminal background investigation, employment, education and licensing verification as a condition of employment. All employees of The Standard must be bondable.