Agile Product Owner - Risk Engineering

The Hartford is hiring an Agile Product Owner - Risk Engineering to help shape and deliver new capabilities for its Cross Business Insurance Risk Services Value Stream. This hybrid role focuses on translating customer and business needs into clear priorities for two to three agile teams, connecting day-to-day execution to the product vision.

Responsibilities

• Interpret internal and external customer feedback, plus industry and competitor trends, to build business cases and inform the product vision and roadmap
• Use data, the voice of the customer, and the voice of the business to manage and prioritize the product backlog
• Contribute to feature road mapping and help define the path from strategy to delivery
• Create features and user stories, simplify requirements, and establish clear acceptance criteria
• Ensure the development team understands each backlog item and its business value
• Make trade-off decisions within the agile team with minimal oversight
• Inspect product progress at the end of every sprint, and accept or reject work delivered
• Analyze delivery metrics to identify trends and opportunities to improve how teams work
• Act as a link between customers, business stakeholders, and development teams throughout planning and delivery
• Partner with your Scrum Master and Agile Release Train counterparts (for example, an Agile Product Manager and Release Train Engineer) to ensure solutions deliver the business vision
• Work with data scientists, ML engineers, and technical stakeholders to define requirements and prioritize AI features that are ethical, explainable, and user-centric
• Balance competing business and IT priorities while acting as a trusted advisor

What you bring

• Prior experience as a Product Owner
• Financial services or insurance experience
• Strong knowledge of agile methodologies and frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and DevOps
• Domain expertise to understand business processes and explain them clearly to a delivery team
• Solution design skills that promote reuse and flexibility
• Ability to identify opportunities to use and integrate data to improve business processes
• Experience partnering with data scientists and ML engineers on AI-enabled products
• Project management skills, including risk mitigation and change management
• Ability to handle large scope and high complexity within agile teams

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Risk Engineering
• CSPO or PSPO certification
• Rally experience

Benefits

Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition.

Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range for this role is $100,000 to $150,000.

Work schedule and location

This role is hybrid with an expectation of working in the office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday) in one of the following locations: Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Hartford, CT, or Charlotte, NC.

Authorization to work: The candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.