Director, Product Owner- Business Agility Underwriting

Job Locations US-NH-Portsmouth | US-Remote | US-WA-Seattle | US-MA-Boston | US-TX-Plano
ID
2025-71920
Position Type
Full-Time
Minimum Salary
USD $153,000.00/Yr.
Maximum Salary
USD $245,300.00/Yr.
Flexible Time Off Annual Accrual - days
25

Description

We are on a transformative journey, evolving our business through agility, innovation, and customer-centricity. We seek a visionary leader to help guide and shape this transformation as a key player in our Business Agility Underwriting Domain. This is a unique opportunity to lead the Risk Proposal and Issuance (RPI) Portfolio at the intersection of strategy, execution, and innovation.

 

As the Portfolio Leader, you will drive transformation and be a strategic thought leader, partnering with key stakeholders across the business to drive alignment and foster a product mindset throughout the organization. This role demands a blend of visionary leadership, product expertise, and agile execution capabilities.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

  • Strategic Leadership: Act as a thought leader in product strategy, drive the vision/ roadmap for RPI, setting the vision for agile product ownership that aligns with the organization’s broader goals and market dynamics.
  • Stakeholder Partnership: Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across the company, acting as a trusted partner to executives, technology teams, and other business leaders to ensure alignment on priorities and outcomes.
  • Product Mindset Champion: Advocate for and embed a product-centric culture within the organization, emphasizing value creation, customer focus, and iterative development. Manages delivery of scope, partners with the Leadership Team and Business Sponsors to align on key functional strategic outcomes, Portfolio and initiative performance and funding/ resource demand and allocation.
  • Agile Transformation: Lead the organization’s ongoing agile transformation, driving continuous improvement in product development processes and promoting agility at all levels of the company. Participates to provide feedback, support, coaching, in sprint-and release plans together with Product Managers and Technology counterparts.
  • Innovation and Thought Leadership: Stay at the forefront of industry trends and emerging practices in product development, bringing new ideas and opportunities to the organization.
  • Team Leadership & Development: Mentor and inspire a team of Product Managers and Product Owners, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and high performance. Lead by example in adopting agile practices and a growth mindset. Help oversee their respective agile teams and stakeholders to align priorities, remove roadblocks and secure resources.  Works closely with IT and other Business counterparts to ensure resource alignment in support of Portfolio vision and roadmaps. 
  • Business Knowledge: Deeply understand the businesses that comprise GRS, their go-to-market strategies, their common opportunities to leverage scale, and their unique differences that are required to win in local markets.
  • Outcome Ownership: Define and communicate clear, measurable outcomes (OKRs) for product teams and sets at ambitious digital portfolio strategy, ensuring they are aligned with strategic business objectives and customer needs.
  • Customer Centric: Partner with Design Team to ensure customer-driven design is prioritized, considering user pain points from usability test results and market industry knowledge to deliver a well-positioned product.

Why Join Us:

 

You’ll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our organization’s future, working with a passionate team that’s dedicated to innovation, agility, and customer success. You’ll shape the way we work, enabling us to deliver world-class products while fostering a collaborative, forward-thinking culture.

 

If you’re ready to lead, inspire, and transform, we want to hear from you!

Qualifications

  • Advanced knowledge product management, Agile development methodologies, and experience in organizational change management as typically acquired through a Bachelors` degree in relevant field (business, computer science, etc
  • Minimum of 10 years` experience in product development, business, marketing, technology, and/or consulting
  • Master`s degree preferred
  • High level of proven business expertise needed to set clear priorities for product and understand business value impacts across an entire business unit
  • High level of proven outcomes managing and mentoring product managers, product owners, and people leaders
  • Technical proficiency required to participate in program increment planning and have an informed, independent voice
  • Strong influencing and leadership skills in order to be seen as the decision maker when interfacing with business, and willingness to dissent with both teams and business
  • Proven experience with Agile practices and expectations
  • Comfortable with making decisions with some level of uncertainty
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, both written and verbal
  • Encourages non-hierarchical culture

About Us

Pay Philosophy: The typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range for this role reflects the competitive labor market value for all employees in these positions across the national market and provides an opportunity to progress as employees grow and develop within the role. Some roles at Liberty Mutual have a corresponding compensation plan which may include commission and/or bonus earnings at rates that vary based on multiple factors set forth in the compensation plan for the role.

As a purpose-driven organization, Liberty Mutual is committed to fostering an environment where employees from all backgrounds can build long and meaningful careers. Through strong relationships, comprehensive benefits and continuous learning opportunities, we seek to create an environment where employees can succeed, both professionally and personally.

At Liberty Mutual, we believe progress happens when people feel secure. By providing protection for the unexpected and delivering it with care, we help people embrace today and confidently pursue tomorrow.

We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment where employees from all backgrounds can build long and meaningful careers. By actively seeking employee feedback and amplifying the voices of our seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), which are open to all, we create an environment where every individual can make a meaningful impact so we continue to meet the evolving needs of our customers.

We value your hard work, integrity and commitment to make things better, and we put people first by offering you benefits that support your life and well-being. To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: https://LMI.co/Benefits

Liberty Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. We will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information or on any basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.

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