Agile Product Owner

Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value diversity and recognize the benefits gained when people from different cultures, backgrounds and experiences work collaboratively to achieve business results. We are intentionally focused on fostering an inclusive culture and know valuing diversity is an essential leadership quality. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered and enabled to perform at their best.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading a cross-functional team to define a product vision and strategy, product roadmap, and requirements for success.
• Responsible for leading collaboration with key stakeholders to define business objectives, facilitate sprint activities, and create and communicate requirements that translate business needs into strategic business and technology initiatives. 
  • Ensures a customer-centric and data-driven approach to identify and advocate for iterative deliverables with measurable outcomes.
  • Responsible for collaborating with key stakeholders on user adoption strategies and progress on product adoption.
  • Leads the creation and maintenance of training materials as needed to assist in product adoption.
  • Responsible for monitoring usage, assessing user data, and identifying opportunities to increase usage and improve user experience.
  • Responsible for overseeing an actionable and prioritized backlog.
  • Serves as the liaison between the end users, delivery team, and key stakeholders.
  • Collaborates with other Product Owners within an Agile Release Train.
  • Participates in or facilitates all agile ceremonies (e.g., standups, planning, retro, etc.).
• Instill Product Mindset with a balanced team approach:
  • Ability to breakdown complex problems into simple solutions focused on important customer needs.
  • Focus on data-driven approaches to solving problems and validate solutions.
• Develops, maintains, and leverages strong relationships across the business.
• Coaches, mentors, or pairs with other Product Owners.
• Responsible for performance and coaching of staff and may have a participatory role in decisions regarding talent selection, development, and performance management for direct reports.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

Field of Study: Information Technology, Business or a related discipline.

Experience: Generally, 8 or more years of related experience. Demonstrated knowledge of and agile development methodology - preferably Scrum and/or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

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Benefits:

Compensation varies by role, position level, and location. Individual pay is influenced by skills, education, training, certifications, experience, and the role's scope and complexity, along with business needs.

We offer a competitive Total Rewards package, including medical, dental, and vision plans starting on day one, PTO, paid holidays, commuter benefits, an employee stock purchase plan, education reimbursement, paid parental leave/adoption assistance, and a 401(k) plan with company match. These benefits are available to eligible full-time and part-time employees.

Your recruiter can provide more details about our total rewards and specific compensation ranges during the hiring process.