Who Are We?
Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That's the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.
Job Category
Technology
Compensation Overview
The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.
Salary Range
$96,400.00 - $159,100.00
Target Openings
1
What Is the Opportunity?
Travelers is seeking a dynamic Agile Product Owner to lead a cross-functional team in delivering capabilities and solutions that support Business Insurance's Premium Pipeline and Processing applications within the Data & Analytics Value Stream.
What Will You Do?
Key Responsibilities
As the primary voice of the end-user, you will:
Translate business requirements : Bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technology teams by converting data needs into actionable technical requirements
Manage application development : Oversee application enhancements, production support, and technical currency updates
Streamline processes : Develop efficient intake processes and procedures to organize and prioritize work across interconnected Business Insurance systems
Lead delivery : Guide team execution to deliver high-quality capabilities and solutions that meet business objectives
Serve as the primary liaison between business users and development teams
Define and prioritize product backlogs based on business value and stakeholder needs
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of data and analytics solutions
Establish and maintain efficient workflows for managing requests across multiple interconnected systems
Drive continuous improvement in processes and team performance
This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on Travelers' Business Insurance data operations by ensuring data and analytics capabilities effectively serve end-user needs.
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 versus defining how the work is completed.
Act as voice of the end-user; have a deep understanding of and respond to customer feedback ensuring needs and requirements 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.
Communicate resource requirements with Circle Leads and peers.
Provide clarity on expected work plans.
Break down portfolio-level epics into high-level features for potential forecasting and sequencing
Share best practices across teams to ensure alignment and consistency in ways of working within a value stream.
Collaborate with a Scrum Master, Senior Manager Data Management, and Data Analysts
Support applications critical for reporting functions aligning revenue, loss, and other information to business structures.
Foster an innovative, inclusive and diverse team environment, promoting positive team culture, encouraging collaboration and self-organization.
Perform other duties as assigned.
What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?
Bachelor's degree preferred.
Two years of experience in Agile product management preferred.
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 and which is the north star for the team
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.
What is a Must Have?
Two years of work experience in related field required.
What Is in It for You?
Health Insurance : Employees and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners, and children - are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine 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. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.
Employment Practices
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.
In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.
If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email (4-ESU@travelers.com) so we may assist you.
Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.
To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/ .
