Corporate Vice President, Product Owner - Protection Powered Growth Planning (Product & Experience)

New York Life offers a hybrid role based in New York, where you can help shape a next-generation financial planning ecosystem built for agents and advisors. In this Product Owner leadership position, you will turn product vision and strategy into clear priorities, team backlogs, and delivery decisions that support meaningful customer and business value.

Compensation: $119,000 to $170,000 per year. Eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and an incentive program (eligibility mentioned). This role is overtime eligible: Exempt, and sales bonus eligible: No.

What you’ll do

As a Corporate Vice President, Product Owner, you will translate customer and business needs into team features, workflows, and acceptance criteria for a Protection-Powered Growth planning experience. You will work closely with Experience and Design and field stakeholders to validate workflows and ensure a consistent agent and household journey from discovery through plan delivery and ongoing review.

• Shape user-facing planning features by translating needs of agents, advisors, and planning partners into workable capabilities, including validation of workflows and acceptance criteria with Experience and Design plus field stakeholders
• Drive testing, readiness, and adoption by coordinating user testing, release readiness, and feedback loops with planning SMEs, Distribution, and Field Learning and Development to improve usability and product outcomes
• Represent the agent and household experience across the full planning journey to ensure features support the full Protection-Powered Growth conversation
• Translate product vision into the backlog by developing user stories and acceptance criteria aligned to PM epics and customer needs
• Prioritize and sequence product features by aligning the team backlog to AI-driven insights, business priorities, and customer needs
• Break down data requirements to ensure timely, quality delivery of product functionality using AI and automation tools
• Manage the team-level backlog and roadmap, including oversight of bug fixes, maintenance, and accountability for product quality
• Deliver features from creation through production and ensure organizational and go-to-market readiness at release
• Coordinate dependencies by identifying, managing, and resolving team-level and cross-team dependencies
• Collaborate with PM to prioritize and implement process improvement opportunities
• Partner with data governance SMEs to meet data standards across applications
• Define team competencies, deliver against team OKRs, and support development while tracking progress to stakeholders

What you bring

• 6+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis, or related delivery roles, including at least 3 years as a Product Owner or Product Manager in an Agile environment (SAFe preferred)
• Experience delivering field-facing or advisor-facing digital products, with the ability to turn complex financial planning workflows into usable features
• Experience conducting or partnering on user research and usability testing with agents, advisors, or other field users
• Ability to translate product vision and strategy into a prioritized feature roadmap and actionable work for a delivery team
• Strong product backlog management and sprint-planning experience across the full release lifecycle, including user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog refinement, and release planning
• Track record of driving features from definition through production and release, with strong attention to product quality and organizational and go-to-market readiness
• Strong understanding of customer journeys, customer experience, and usability principles, including incorporating feedback into product decisions
• Proven ability to identify, manage, and resolve team-level and cross-team dependencies, with strong relationship-building across business, technology, Agile, and platform teams
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, serving as a bridge between business stakeholders and development teams
• Experience defining, tracking, and communicating team-level OKRs and using performance measures to improve delivery and product outcomes
• Strong Agile execution skills, including hands-on experience with Jira or equivalent tools for backlog management, sprint tracking, and release management
• Digital, data, and AI fluency, including translating data and technical requirements into actionable work and using AI-enabled tools and automation
• Strong insurance or financial-services domain knowledge, or ability to quickly build domain expertise in a regulated industry
• A working style grounded in ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Tools and methodologies

• Agile, SAFe, Jira

Location and role level

• Location: Hybrid, 3 days per week in New York, New York, United States
• Job level: LEVELPF5

Benefits and inclusion

• Leave programs
• Adoption assistance
• Student loan repayment programs
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Incentive program (eligibility mentioned)

New York Life is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace as a foundation for how it serves communities.