Senior Product Owner - Remote
Chicago, Illinois
Contractor
$50.00 - $68.00 per Hour
LHH is working with an Insurance company based in Chicago who is looking to hire 4 Sr. Product Owners to join our team for a 9+ month project. The role will be 100% remote and candidates MUST reside in the continental United States to be considered.
Candidates MUST be willing to work as a w2 employee of LHH from Day 1 to be considered (no C2C/C2H please!)
The Senior Product Owner serves as the customer proxy to the Agile team within the agile process and is the final authority for decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the Agile development team. The Senior Product Owner has the ability to analyze complex cross functional business processes and define integrated user stories using industry standard techniques and is able to apply modified approaches and techniques to meet different circumstances. In partnership with their Scrum Master, the Senior Product Owner will monitor metrics and suggest new ways of increasing quality and verify the business value delivered by the team. The Senior Product Owner will directly work with one to two Agile teams dependent upon initiative complexity. The Senior Product Owner may be working on a Scaled Agile Release Train as part of the Product Management team, or they may work on independent Agile teams and have Feature as well as story ownership. The ideal candidate will possess a minimum of three years’ experience working within the commercial insurance industry with an emphasis owning policy administration projects from small to national accounts throughout all areas of the industry.
Supports one to two Agile Scrum teams on initiatives of medium to large complexity
Owns, defines, and prioritizes the team backlog, establishes story acceptance criteria, drives content via prioritized user stories, obtains customer validation and accept stories, ensuring that the solution effectively addresses overall program priorities.
A thought leader in Scrum ceremonies (such as daily standups, sprint review meetings, retrospective meetings, cross-team coordination, and etc.), alongside the Scrum Master, ensuring that Scrum Teams adhere to the Scrum values of courage, focus, commitment, respect and openness in delivering high quality solutions. Fosters an environment of continuous improvement / learning.
Leading by example, facilitates Product Backlog Refinement including reviewing and updating backlog item definition and developing acceptance criteria and value statements, providing information to the team so they can establish technical feasibility and scope estimates, analyzing ways to split backlog items into smaller chunks of incremental value, helping to inform the enablers required to support new features and capabilities, and establishing their capacity allocation.
Builds customer and user insights into all stages of the Scrum planning and execution process, ensuring the continuous validation of stories with Customers and business users.
Proactively analyzes metrics, and recommends changes to the product based on data from feedback loops
Inspire and motivate a team where the members constructively challenge each other, have a sense of ownership, and advocate for the right long-term decision making. Builds a trusting and safe environment within the team, customers, and other stakeholders.
May collaborate with Product Managers and other Senior Product Owners and other Product Owners, to ensure Stories align to value, goals and objectives of overall program priorities.
May perform additional duties as assigned. Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Strong executor, proven across complex initiatives
Champion for the adoption of new Agile technologies and methodologies
Ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships with stakeholders
Highly collaborative with good conflict resolutions skills
Proven ability to enact change quickly
Willingness to develop Agile team members by inspiring, encouraging and providing constructive feedback
Solid leadership skill
Proven ability to work directly with Product Management, business stakeholders and technical/product teams
Domain knowledge of solutions being developed
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
Typically a minimum of five years as a Product Owner or equivalent role
Experience with insurance or finance based products
Successful track record with Agile methodologies
Applicable certifications preferred (e.g. SAFe PO/PM, CSPO or PSPO)
Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to https://www.lhh.com/us/en/candidate-privacy
The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:
- The California Fair Chance Act
- Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
- Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
- San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Senior Product Owner - Remote
LHH
6 days ago
$50.00 - $68.00 per Hour
Contractor
Chicago, Illinois
LHH is working with an Insurance company based in Chicago who is looking to hire 4 Sr. Product Owners to join our team for a 9+ month project. The role will be 100% remote and candidates MUST reside in the continental United States to be considered.
Candidates MUST be willing to work as a w2 employee of LHH from Day 1 to be considered (no C2C/C2H please!)
The Senior Product Owner serves as the customer proxy to the Agile team within the agile process and is the final authority for decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the Agile development team. The Senior Product Owner has the ability to analyze complex cross functional business processes and define integrated user stories using industry standard techniques and is able to apply modified approaches and techniques to meet different circumstances. In partnership with their Scrum Master, the Senior Product Owner will monitor metrics and suggest new ways of increasing quality and verify the business value delivered by the team. The Senior Product Owner will directly work with one to two Agile teams dependent upon initiative complexity. The Senior Product Owner may be working on a Scaled Agile Release Train as part of the Product Management team, or they may work on independent Agile teams and have Feature as well as story ownership. The ideal candidate will possess a minimum of three years’ experience working within the commercial insurance industry with an emphasis owning policy administration projects from small to national accounts throughout all areas of the industry.
Supports one to two Agile Scrum teams on initiatives of medium to large complexity
Owns, defines, and prioritizes the team backlog, establishes story acceptance criteria, drives content via prioritized user stories, obtains customer validation and accept stories, ensuring that the solution effectively addresses overall program priorities.
A thought leader in Scrum ceremonies (such as daily standups, sprint review meetings, retrospective meetings, cross-team coordination, and etc.), alongside the Scrum Master, ensuring that Scrum Teams adhere to the Scrum values of courage, focus, commitment, respect and openness in delivering high quality solutions. Fosters an environment of continuous improvement / learning.
Leading by example, facilitates Product Backlog Refinement including reviewing and updating backlog item definition and developing acceptance criteria and value statements, providing information to the team so they can establish technical feasibility and scope estimates, analyzing ways to split backlog items into smaller chunks of incremental value, helping to inform the enablers required to support new features and capabilities, and establishing their capacity allocation.
Builds customer and user insights into all stages of the Scrum planning and execution process, ensuring the continuous validation of stories with Customers and business users.
Proactively analyzes metrics, and recommends changes to the product based on data from feedback loops
Inspire and motivate a team where the members constructively challenge each other, have a sense of ownership, and advocate for the right long-term decision making. Builds a trusting and safe environment within the team, customers, and other stakeholders.
May collaborate with Product Managers and other Senior Product Owners and other Product Owners, to ensure Stories align to value, goals and objectives of overall program priorities.
May perform additional duties as assigned. Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Strong executor, proven across complex initiatives
Champion for the adoption of new Agile technologies and methodologies
Ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships with stakeholders
Highly collaborative with good conflict resolutions skills
Proven ability to enact change quickly
Willingness to develop Agile team members by inspiring, encouraging and providing constructive feedback
Solid leadership skill
Proven ability to work directly with Product Management, business stakeholders and technical/product teams
Domain knowledge of solutions being developed
Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
Typically a minimum of five years as a Product Owner or equivalent role
Experience with insurance or finance based products
Successful track record with Agile methodologies
Applicable certifications preferred (e.g. SAFe PO/PM, CSPO or PSPO)
Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to https://www.lhh.com/us/en/candidate-privacy
The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:
- The California Fair Chance Act
- Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
- Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
- San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance