Agile Data & Analytics Product Owner

The Travelers Indemnity Company; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 99,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement plan matching

Paid Time Off

Wellness Program

Volunteer Encouragement

Job summary

Travelers is seeking an Agile Product Owner to lead a Data & Analytics team, guiding day-to-day work and delivering outcomes with a customer-centric focus. You will partner with circle leadership to implement a D&A strategy across Travelers Enterprise, ensuring alignment to business goals and driving measurable results.

You will influence stakeholders, balance priorities, and foster collaboration across Finance, Operations, and our Payments & Billing platforms, enabling a modern data ecosystem

Qualifications

• Two years of work experience in related field.
• Two years of experience in Agile product management.
• Two years of experience with Data & Analytics application development (ETL/ELT, Data Warehousing and Reporting)
• Agile Mindset: Embody Agile core values of openness, courage, respect, focus, and commitment.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Effectively manage a backlog of deliverables and capabilities as well as 'test and learn'/experimentation targeted at defining/refining future deliverables, measuring performance and adjusting the overall roadmap of deliverables as needed.
• Understand and implement team goals and strategy, ensuring alignment with circle and value stream vision, articulate team goals, and strategy effectively to key stakeholders, Circle Leads, and team members.
• 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 teamwork product meets defined acceptance criteria.
• Own team backlog, including prioritization and refinement; Make trade‑off decisions to maximize value.
• Optimize the flow of value by setting objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs) for solutions.
• Inform and participate in business readiness; understand the impact of change, implement the approach to manage adoption and mitigate resistance.
• Provide feedback on work‑in‑progress, clarify requirements, and contribute to removing roadblocks or impediments; Look for opportunities for continuous team and process improvement.
• Partner with key leaders and peers to effectively communicate resources required to achieve defined business outcomes.
• Share best practices across teams to ensure alignment and consistency in ways of working within a value stream.
• Foster an innovative, inclusive, and diverse team environment, promoting positive team culture, encouraging collaboration and self‑organization.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Agile product management

Data & Analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ETL/ELT

Data Warehousing

Reporting

Job description

Travelers is seeking an Agile Product Owner to lead a Data & Analytics team, guiding day-to-day work and delivering outcomes with a customer-centric focus. You will partner with circle leadership to implement a D&A strategy across Travelers Enterprise, ensuring alignment to business goals and driving measurable results.

You will influence stakeholders, balance priorities, and foster collaboration across Finance, Operations, and our Payments & Billing platforms, enabling a modern data ecosystem