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About the Role

The Sr. Product Owner defines and prioritizes the Team Backlog to streamline program priorities while maintaining the integrity of the features and components the team is responsible for. This role is critical for quality, with the Product Owner empowered to accept new stories. Typically, one PO supports one or two Agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a voice to project customer expectations on new or existing products.
• Highlight product features in a manner clearly understandable to the development team.
• Manage and develop product backlog, as well as user stories backlog for implementation for multiple agile teams.
• Conduct backlog grooming meetings with a team of product owners.
• Attend sprint planning and demo meetings to give feedback on sprint achievement, as well as to scrum team.
• Monitor the progress of product development, as well as plan for product release.
• Contact customers and end users to obtain information on expected product features.
• Provide reports to update management and stakeholders on product development operations.
• Analyze customer opinions and feedback to determine features or components that will add good value to a product.
• Assess product value stream to identify areas that require improvements.
• Measure product performance as well as value delivered to clients in order to make adjustments where necessary.
• Develop and implement action plans for building and sustaining demand for a product.
• Ensure implemented product features add value to end users and meet strategic expectations.
• Provide insight to agile teams on a continuous basis in order to accelerate product delivery timelines.
• Challenge approach of agile team on stories to improve the overall value of the product.
• Become familiar with technologies and methodologies relevant to the department areas of practice.
• Act as a subject matter expert in support of project development and implementation.
• Encourage best practices in the department by providing appropriate capabilities and guidance.
• Strategically partner with other departments to leverage collective expertise and resources.
• Share best practices with other product owners to encourage an enterprise level approach.
• Advocate for technical development of department members by leveraging agile team activities.

Requirements

• US Work Authorization required.
• Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.

Experience Level

• Sr. Product Owner

Salary/Compensations

• $116,080 - $159,610/year with 25% incentive

Benefits

• Competitive benefit programs.
• Multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options.
• Optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.
• 401(k) with employer match contributions.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• PTO.
• Corporate holidays and floating holidays.
• Parental leave.

About the Company

• Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) is a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries.
• It is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.
• Company values: We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further.

Equal Opportunity

• Markel is an equal opportunity employer.
• We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic.
• Protected characteristics include race; color; sex; religion; creed; national origin or place of birth; ancestry; age; disability; affectional or sexual orientation; gender expression or identity; genetic information, sickle cell trait, or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait; refusal to submit to genetic tests or make genetic test results available; medical condition; citizenship status; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, familial status, or family responsibilities; military or veteran status, including unfavorable discharge from military service; personal appearance, height, or weight; matriculation or political affiliation; expunged juvenile records; arrest and court records where prohibited by applicable law; status as a victim of domestic or sexual violence; public assistance status; order of protection status; status as a smoker or nonsmoker; membership or activity in local commissions; the use or nonuse of lawful products off employer premises during non-work hours; declining to attend meetings or participate in communications about religious or political matters; or any other classification protected by applicable law.
• Should you require any accommodation through the application process, please send an e-mail to the rarecruiting@markel.com.