Director of AI Delivery & Engineering Enablement

Travelers Companies, Inc.; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 123,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Travelers seeks a Director, Technical Product Owner to lead the AI & Engineering Enablement circle within Claim Technology's Engineering Enablement group. You will shape strategy, manage cross-functional delivery, and translate business needs into executable work for Agile teams, driving shorter lead times and adoption across Claim’s engineers and technology groups.

The ideal candidate partners with circle leads to set priorities, owns the backlog, and focuses on outcomes rather than the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 2 years of Agile product management experience.
• 2 years of work experience in the discipline being supported (e.g., Claim, Risk Control, Technology, PM, etc.).
• 3 years of experience articulating and translating business strategy, product vision, and analysis for a product.
• Agile Mindset: openness, courage, respect, focus, commitment.
• Infuse Agile principles, practices and methodologies to achieve team success.
• Product Mindset: define a product value proposition aligned with circle/value stream objectives.

Responsibilities

• Define, prioritize and ensure a ready backlog for a cross-functional product team, accepting final product output and focusing on outcomes.
• Manage backlog and experiments to define/refine future deliverables and adjust the roadmap.
• Translate business strategies into execution-ready work; define goals and strategy for the team and communicate to stakeholders.
• Act as voice of the end-user; ensure needs are defined and acceptance criteria are met.
• Own team backlog, prioritization and refinement; make trade-offs to maximize value.
• Set objectives and KPIs to optimize value flow for solutions.
• Support business readiness and adoption; address change impacts.
• Provide feedback, remove roadblocks and pursue continuous improvement.
• Partner with leaders to determine resources needed to achieve outcomes.
• Share best practices across teams for alignment within the value stream.
• Foster an innovative, inclusive team culture and self-organization.
• May manage Agile Product Owners.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Agile product management

Product strategy

Stakeholder management

Agile mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Travelers seeks a Director, Technical Product Owner to lead the AI & Engineering Enablement circle within Claim Technology's Engineering Enablement group. You will shape strategy, manage cross-functional delivery, and translate business needs into executable work for Agile teams, driving shorter lead times and adoption across Claim’s engineers and technology groups.

The ideal candidate partners with circle leads to set priorities, owns the backlog, and focuses on outcomes rather than the