Data Product Owner

Country Financial Group; Bloomington (IL); Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Short-Term Incentive

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

COUNTRY Financial Group in Bloomington, IL is seeking a Data Product Owner to bridge business and technology, collaborating with product management, engineers, and data platforms to define data requirements and deliver data solutions.

You will lead agile ceremonies, articulate acceptance criteria, and prioritize work to maximize business value while ensuring governance and quality standards are met. This hybrid role supports enterprise data initiatives.

Qualifications

• Lead data product ownership within SAFe Agile delivery teams.
• Define and translate business and data requirements into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate across Product Management, Engineering, Architecture and Quality teams to deliver enterprise data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to align product roadmaps with business objectives.
• Prioritize backlog items to maximize value and ensure timely delivery.
• Elicit, document, and validate data flows, rules, and integration requirements across platforms.

Skills

SAFe Agile

Backlog management

User stories

Stakeholder alignment

Data requirements gathering

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

## Data Product OwnerApply: Hybrid: Bloomington, IL: Full time: Posted Today: R26\\_0000001122# **Experience more with a career at COUNTRY Financial!**We’re excited you’re interested in a career at COUNTRY as we strive toward our vision - to enrich lives in the communities we serve. Our footprint spans coast to coast. But more important than where we operate, is the people who do the work. Apply today to help our organization grow and make a difference for our clients.# # About the rolePartners with business stakeholders, product management, architects, and data engineering teams to define, analyze, document, and deliver business and data requirements that enable enterprise data solutions and data products. Serves as the primary bridge between business and technology teams, ensuring business objectives, processes, data needs, and success criteria are clearly understood and translated into actionable requirements and delivery outcomes. Acts as a lead contributor within a SAFe Agile delivery team, facilitating collaboration across Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, Quality Engineering, and business partners. Participates in Agile planning activities, including backlog refinement, feature decomposition, sprint planning, user story development, acceptance criteria definition, and solution validation to ensure alignment between business expectations and delivered capabilities. Works with modern data platforms, cloud-based technologies, analytics ecosystems, and data engineering solutions to elicit, analyze, document, and manage both functional and non-functional requirements. Collaborates with technical teams to define data flows, business rules, integration requirements, data quality expectations, and operational processes supporting enterprise data products and services. Produces and maintains high-quality business and technical artifacts, including business requirements, user stories, process flows, data mappings, data lineage documentation, acceptance criteria, feature specifications, and solution documentation to support successful delivery and ongoing support of data solutions. Leverages AI-enabled tools and practices to accelerate analysis, improve documentation quality, identify requirement gaps, enhance traceability, support testing activities, and increase overall delivery effectiveness while maintaining appropriate governance and quality standards. Facilitates stakeholder alignment, requirement prioritization, solution reviews, and user acceptance activities to ensure delivered capabilities meet business needs, support strategic objectives, and provide measurable business value.# # **How does this role make an impact?**- Based on internal and external customer needs, describes, prioritizes, and communicates requirements, ensuring recommended change is aligned to product roadmaps. May manage and execute long term road maps to drive the overall vision and execution of products.- Actively manages product development and provides regular updates to all stakeholders. Frequently touches base with development teams and the business for sprint reviews.- Applies design thinking techniques (e.g., user stories, wireframing, prototyping) in order to define product features.- Uses team scrum/agile development techniques and tools for team collaboration, product testing, issue tracking and backlog management.- Assists in developing business cases for product enhancements, establishment of the Minimum Viable product, Minimum Marketable Features, and product improvements.- Identifies and highlights risks and issues, articulating the impact of these on the product delivery.- Responsible for ordering backlog, clearly expressing the product backlog items, ordering the items to best achieve goals and optimize the value of the work the team performs.# # Do you have what we're looking for?Typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience or a combination of related experience, education and training. #LI-CORP**Base Pay Range:**$94,400-$129,800The base pay range represents the typical range of potential salary offers for candidates hired. Factors used to determine your actual salary include your specific skills, qualifications and experience.**Incentive Pay:**In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a Short-Term Incentive plan.# **Why work with us?**Our employees and representatives serve nearly one million households with our diverse range of personal and business insurance products as well as retirement and investment services. We build relationships and work together to create a stronger, more secure future for our clients and our communities. We’re a big company, yet small enough you can make an impact and won’t get lost in the shuffle. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow throughout your career, either within this role or by exploring other areas of our business.You’ll be able to take advantage of our benefits package, which includes insurance benefits (medical, dental, vision, disability, and life), 401(k) with company match.COUNTRY Financial is committed to providing equal opportunity in all areas of employment, and in providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, disability, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations.