Product Owner III- Underwriting

Liberty Mutual offers a comprehensive benefits package, workplace flexibility, professional development opportunities, and involvement through Employee Resource Groups. This Product Owner role sits on the North America Underwriting Agile team in Boston, MA (onsite), where you will represent both the customer and the organization to help deliver measurable business value.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with stakeholders to create and align the product vision with strategic priorities, and contribute to the portfolio vision.
• Communicate the vision as product strategy to your squad and to other squads and teams outside your portfolio or functional area, including executive leadership.
• Own the product level KPIs: with the squad, develop and achieve product outcomes.
• Manage product(s) with high strategy, scope, and complexity, defining and prioritizing features and stories.
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring it is actionable and reflects what the team should deliver next.
• Set priorities and participate in quarterly planning for both squad/team and portfolio levels.
• Set stakeholder expectations for delivery of new capabilities, features, and functionalities, and participate in squad demos, retrospectives, and other ceremonies.
• Work daily with the agile working group to clarify business requirements, remove roadblocks, and maintain alignment around product strategy.
• Lead IT and business leadership alignment across development and business goals, while partnering with stakeholders and squad/team to keep execution moving.
• Monitor and maintain product health, including designing additional monitoring to better understand performance and impact.
• Analyze and report on feasibility and cost of delay, including potential economies and impacts of planned or possible changes.
• Drive alignment across stakeholders around regulatory, compliance, and industry constraints and their effects on other portfolio products.
• Negotiate aligned priorities with internal and external squads and teams, including those outside the portfolio.

What you bring

• 7+ years of experience in business, technology, or consulting, with 5 to 7 years direct experience with agile teams.
• Advanced knowledge of Agile development methodologies, typically gained through a Bachelors degree in a relevant field (business, computer science, humanities, etc.).
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Proven business expertise to set clear product priorities and understand business value impacts.
• Ability to build strong stakeholder relationships and influence across organizational boundaries.
• Experience leading varied audiences through complex ideas, issues, and designs, including census building.
• Comfort making decisions with some uncertainty.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Insurance industry knowledge preferred, and knowledge of relevant products and portfolio strongly preferred.
• An experimental mindset to drive innovation in uncertainty and pursue market opportunities.

Location: Boston, MA (onsite)
Compensation: USD 142,800 - 201,300 per year