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About the Role

Travelers is seeking an Agile Product Owner to lead a team in delivering capabilities and solutions in an agile manner. This role acts as the voice of the end-user, guiding the team's daily work towards defined outcomes rather than dictating task completion.

Responsibilities

• Define, prioritize, and ensure a ready backlog of work for a smaller scale product team.
• Accept final product output, focusing on achievement of defined outcomes.
• Effectively manage a backlog of deliverables and capabilities, including 'test and learn'/experimentation.
• Measure performance and adjust the overall roadmap of deliverables as needed.
• Understand and implement team goals and strategy, ensuring alignment with circle and value stream vision.
• Articulate team goals and strategy effectively to key stakeholders, Circle Leads, and team members.
• Act as the voice of the end-user, responding to customer feedback and ensuring needs are clearly defined.
• Ensure team work product meets defined acceptance criteria.
• Own team backlog, including prioritization and refinement.
• Make trade-off decisions to maximize value.
• Optimize the flow of value by setting objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs) for solutions.
• Inform and participate in business readiness, understanding the impact of change and managing adoption.
• Provide feedback on work-in-progress, clarify requirements, and contribute to removing roadblocks.
• Look for opportunities for continuous team and process improvement.
• Partner with Circle Leads and peers to communicate required resources.
• Share best practices across teams for alignment and consistency within a value stream.
• Foster an innovative, inclusive, and diverse team environment, promoting positive team culture, collaboration, and self-organization.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• Two years of experience in Agile product management
• Two years of work experience in a related field

Skills

• Agile Mindset: Embody Agile core values of openness, courage, respect, focus, and commitment
• Infuse Agile principles, practices and methodologies to achieve team success
• Product Mindset: Focus on defining a product value proposition that aligns with and supports the circle/value stream objectives
• Influence: Ability to influence behaviors of leaders and without traditional hierarchy
• Servant Leadership: Foster an environment where individuals thrive as empowered and equal members of a team
• Communication: Ability to communicate thoughts, concepts, practices effectively at all levels, adjusting as needed to a target audience
• Collaboration: Expertise working with others in a cross-functional multi-team environment
• Continuous Improvement: Demonstrate a commitment to continually improve, share learning with others and encourage team development

Experience Level

• Two years of experience in Agile product management
• Two years of work experience in related field

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree

Salary/Compensations

• $115,900.00 - $165,900.00

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers provides a core contribution of 3% of your total eligible earnings to your Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (“DPSP”). Travelers also matches your savings plan contribution dollar-for-dollar up to 5% of base pay.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off (“PTO”) annually, plus the opportunity to purchase additional days to allow for up to a total of 36 PTO days per year.
• Twelve paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs.
• Mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

About the Company

• Solid reputation, passionate people and endless opportunities.
• Superior financial strength and consistent record of strong operating returns mean security for our customers – and opportunities for our employees.
• Travelers is full of energy and a workplace in which you truly can make a difference.
• Travelers has more than 30,000 employees in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
• Recognized by organizations such as G.I. Jobs and Military Times.
• Employees are valuable assets to their hometowns, volunteering for important causes each year.

Equal Opportunity

• Travelers is an equal opportunity employer.
• We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.
• We are committed to providing accommodation to persons with disabilities.
• If you require accommodation during the recruitment or interview process we will work with you to accommodate your needs.
• If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.
• Travelers does not use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assess, screen or select applicants.
• Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this position.