About the Role
The Corporate Vice President – Product Owner will support the design, development, and evolution of the enterprise Insight & Analytics ecosystem, focusing on advancing the dashboard strategy and user experience for agent, field manager, and home office audiences. This role enables data-driven decision-making by delivering scalable, intuitive, and high-impact analytics products that unify data, surface actionable insights, and improve business performance.
Responsibilities
- Translate the Product Manager’s multi-year vision for the analytics and dashboard ecosystem into actionable work for agile delivery teams.
- Own the product backlog, ensuring alignment to business priorities and data strategy.
- Deliver high-quality, insight-driven capabilities using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Lead complex digital, data, and analytics products from concept through delivery and adoption.
- Align product priorities with business strategy, customer needs, and measurable outcomes.
- Manage stakeholders and build alignment across business, technology, data, and operations teams.
- Define product vision, success metrics, roadmaps, and value realization strategies.
- Drive product adoption, change management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Partner with Data Engineering, Analytics, and Architecture teams to deliver scalable data products and analytical solutions.
- Manage and prioritize product backlogs in Agile and SAFe environments.
- Create user stories, develop acceptance criteria, refine backlogs, and prioritize features.
- Lead PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Iteration Reviews, System Demos, and Retrospectives.
- Identify and manage dependencies, risks, and delivery trade-offs across multiple teams.
- Conduct user research, gather customer insights, map user journeys, and elicit requirements.
- Drive organizational change management, user adoption, and business readiness activities for new capabilities and products.
- Leverage user insights, customer feedback, and analytics to inform product decisions and roadmap priorities.
- Define and track product KPIs, adoption metrics, engagement measures, and business outcomes.
- Deliver enterprise-scale dashboards, self-service analytics platforms, reporting solutions, or digital experiences.
- Manage data products, analytical platforms, or enterprise reporting ecosystems.
- Enable data discovery, self-service analytics, and business intelligence.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading complex digital, data, and analytics products from concept through delivery and adoption.
- Demonstrated ability to align product priorities with business strategy, customer needs, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder management and influence skills, with the ability to build alignment across business, technology, data, and operations teams.
- Experience defining product vision, success metrics, roadmaps, and value realization strategies.
- Ability to drive product adoption, change management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Strong understanding of enterprise data ecosystems, including data warehousing, data modeling, semantic layers, data governance, and data quality management.
- Experience partnering with Data Engineering, Analytics, and Architecture teams to deliver scalable data products and analytical solutions.
- Proficiency with Business Intelligence and visualization platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, or similar technologies.
- Deep understanding of KPI development, metric standardization, reporting frameworks, and analytical best practices.
- Knowledge of modern AI and Generative AI capabilities, including practical applications for analytics, insights generation, personalization, automation, and decision support.
- Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms and modern data architectures preferred (Azure, AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.).
- Ability to translate complex technical and data concepts into actionable business value and user-focused solutions.
- Strong experience managing and prioritizing product backlogs in Agile and SAFe environments.
- Expertise in user story creation, acceptance criteria development, backlog refinement, and feature prioritization.
- Experience leading PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Iteration Reviews, System Demos, and Retrospectives.
- Proven ability to identify and manage dependencies, risks, and delivery trade-offs across multiple teams.
- Strong understanding of user research, customer insights, journey mapping, and requirements elicitation techniques.
- Experience driving organizational change management, user adoption, and business readiness activities for new capabilities and products.
- 7+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, or related roles supporting digital, analytics, or data-driven products.
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale dashboards, self-service analytics platforms, reporting solutions, or digital experiences.
- Proven track record of leveraging user insights, customer feedback, and analytics to inform product decisions and roadmap priorities.
- Experience defining and tracking product KPIs, adoption metrics, engagement measures, and business outcomes.
- Demonstrated success delivering products in highly regulated environments, with financial services or insurance experience preferred.
- Understanding of data governance, metadata management, master data management, and data lineage concepts.
- Experience with data discovery, self-service analytics, and business intelligence enablement.
- Familiarity with experimentation, A/B testing, and data-driven decision frameworks.
- Knowledge of data privacy, regulatory, and compliance considerations within analytics environments.
- This role requires FINRA licensed and/or FINRA Associated Person pre-hire fingerprinting.
Skills
- Product Leadership
- Strategic Thinking
- Data Fluency
- Analytics Fluency
- AI Fluency
- Agile Product Ownership
- Delivery Excellence
- User-Centered Design
- Customer Advocacy
- Digital Product Management
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Stakeholder Management
- Change Leadership
- Adoption Management
- Communication
- Influence
- Executive Presence
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Azure
- AWS
- Databricks
- Snowflake
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid - 3 days per week
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, or related roles supporting digital, analytics, or data-driven products.
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree required
- Advanced degree in Business, Data Analytics, Technology, Engineering, or related field preferred.
Salary/Compensations
- $119,000-$170,000
Benefits
- Leave programs
- Adoption assistance
- Student loan repayment programs
- Full package of benefits
About the Company
- At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future.
- We are evolving into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, grounded in values that drive lasting impact.
- Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities.
- We offer a rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.
- As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter.
- Your ideas drive what’s next, and your growth powers it.
- New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation.
- Due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners.
Equal Opportunity
- At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities.
- We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together.
- This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported.
- By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities.
- Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies.
