Director, Agile Product Ownership

Role Overview

• Lead and develop a team of Agile Product Owners, establishing clear expectations for product leadership, accountability, and outcomes.
• Build a strong talent bench through hiring, coaching, performance management, and succession planning.
• Create clarity around Product Owner career paths, readiness expectations, and development plans.
• Foster a high‑trust, high‑performance culture that emphasizes ownership, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure Product Owners define and execute product visions and roadmaps aligned to divisional and enterprise strategy.
• Partner with senior business and technology leaders to translate strategic priorities into outcome‑focused roadmaps.
• Guide prioritization across products and teams by balancing business value, risk, dependencies, capacity, and sequencing.
• Monitor portfolio health, delivery predictability, and value realization; proactively identify and address systemic risks.
• Act as an escalation point for complex product, prioritization, or stakeholder challenges.
• Own and evolve Agile Product Ownership practices, ensuring consistency and effectiveness across teams.
• Serve as a leader in GAIG’s agile maturity journey by modeling strong product leadership and customer‑centric thinking.
• Coach Product Owners and business partners on effective engagement in an agile delivery environment.
• Partner closely with Scrum Masters, engineering leaders, and delivery leadership to continuously improve flow, outcomes, and collaboration.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Enable Product Owners to communicate clearly and confidently with leadership about priorities, progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Synthesize portfolio‑level insights into clear, executive‑ready narratives that inform decision‑making.
• Influence without direct authority to drive alignment across teams and functions.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading Agile Product Owners or product leaders in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Strong background as an Agile Product Owner or product leader within an agile delivery model.
• Proven ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and facilitate difficult trade-off discussions.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience managing product development and agile development methodology, preferably Scrum and/or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Experience supporting large-scale system implementations or complex business domains.
• Highly desired experience in Insurance, Underwriting, Policy Administration, Binding Authority, Data & Analytics, or related areas.
• Certifications: CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) or SAFe certifications are a plus.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• wellness plans
• parental leave
• adoption assistance
• tuition reimbursement
• Paid Time Off
• paid holidays
• 401(k) plan with company match
• employee stock purchase plan
• commuter benefits