Product Owner – Life, Health, Annuity

Role Overview

• Works as a key team member on a cross functional team, responsible for continuous delivery of value to the customer through compelling and empowering customer experiences.
• Collaborate with Product Manager and stakeholders to ensure work prioritization is aligned with Thrivent’s priorities and overall product roadmap as well as to provide product development feedback and direction.
• Continuously innovates and evolves the product in alignment with strategic priorities.
• Is responsible for creating, maintaining, and evolving the product roadmap.
• Maintain and refine product backlog: Create user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy.
• Ensure stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product.
• Is available for consultation during agile team planning and grooming sessions as needed.
• Works with other product teams/owners to align product roadmaps and sprint plans, and to focus on delivering the maximum business value to the organization.
• Working as a part of an agile team, ensures the team is aligned around similar goals and objectives and attending all team meetings.
• Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs.
• Develop and track key value drivers that measure effectiveness of product discovery and overall product performance and communicate these to stakeholders and business leaders on a regular basis.
• Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles.
• Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization’s direction (Product/Agile/DevOps).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• 4-6 years relevant business experience
• Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures
• Familiarity with principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design
• High level of organization and attention to detail
• Passion and understanding of new technology and trends
• Strong communication abilities to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organization
• Certified Product Owner or similar certification (preferred)
• Experience developing business cases, roadmaps, product execution strategies (preferred)
• Ability to prioritize work against enterprise, division, and product strategies (preferred)
• Can effectively communicate rationale and impact for prioritization choices (preferred)
• Experience in defining high-quality business requirements and proficient in Agile story writing (preferred)
• Experience with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle (preferred)
• Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships (preferred)
• Demonstrated experience with user interface design and best practices for usability (preferred)
• Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives (preferred)
• Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint (preferred).

Benefits

• various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives)
• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• health savings account
• flexible spending account
• 401k
• pension
• life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• disability insurance
• supplemental protection insurance
• 20 days of Paid Time Off each year
• Sick and Safe Time
• 10 paid company holidays
• Volunteer Time Off
• paid parental leave
• EAP
• well-being benefits