Product Owner - REMOTE from CST or EST time zones

CNO Financial Group, Inc.; Carmel (IN); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

CNO Financial Group is seeking a Product Owner to drive real-time decision making and prioritize the product backlog while leading Agile development teams. The ideal candidate will possess strong Agile knowledge, communication, and leadership skills, and will help translate business needs into product functionality, ensuring alignment with corporate goals.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan with company match

Short-term & long-term disability insurance

Paid time-off and corporate holidays

Paid parental leave

Company paid life insurance

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of Agile processes and principles.
• Minimum 5 years of related work experience in product management.
• Ability to partner with team members and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and prioritize product backlog and delivery quality standards.
• Lead Agile teams through sprint planning and execution.
• Translate product vision into features and user stories.

Skills

Agile processes

Communication

Leadership

User story writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline

Tools

Jira

Job description

Salary Range : $105,700 - $158,500 Annual

Job Details

CNO Financial Group is hiring a Product Owner who will be responsible for real-time decision-making, defining and prioritizing the product backlog, setting delivery quality standards, and maximizing the value of the product or system functionality from both a business and user perspective. The PO leads the Agile Development Team by translating the product vision into features by elaborating user stories and creating diagrams and models.

The PO leads Agile teams through the definition of functional requirements, sprint planning and execution, roadblock removal, and strategic communication. They act as the primary communicator and link between stakeholders and development teams, helping to define the minimum viable product (MVP) and make tradeoff decisions when priorities conflict, ensuring alignment with business direction and the overall product roadmap.

As a Product Owner , your responsibilities will include:

• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders and creates requirements for part of the process/system design owned.

• Planning and prioritizing product feature backlog and development for the product/system of multiple development teams.

• Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and highlights priorities and tasks for Scrum Team.

• Providing backlog management leadership and decision making (financial and benefit realization accountability), iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.

• Working closely with immediate team and stakeholders to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI.

• Defining user stories, setting goals/priorities to determine the product release plans, and setting expectations for the delivery of new functionality.

• Mitigating impediments that impact successful teams’ completion of release/sprint goals.

• Transforming business requirements into detailed user stories and clearly defined acceptance criteria that engineers can consume.

• Staying up to date with Agile best practices and new trends.

The Product Owner position is well-suited for you if you:

• Have in-depth knowledge of Agile processes and principles.

• Exhibit strong communication, presentation, and leadership skills.

• Demonstrate the ability to partner with team members and stakeholders.

• Possess strong user story writing skills and pay close attention to details.

• Are a creative thinker with a vision.

What you’ll need:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or equivalent.

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related work experience, including product owner/management or other insurance operations industry experience.

• Prior experience working on an Agile team

What will set you apart:

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) highly preferred, or the ability to achieve this certification within the first year of hire.

• Prior experience with Jira

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match

• Short-term & long-term disability insurance

• Paid time-off and corporate holidays,

• Paid parental leave

• Company paid life insurance

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CNO embraces flexibility and encourages you to work where you’re most productive. Associates who live within a 60-mile radius of a corporate office (Birmingham, Carmel, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee) have access to come into that office.

Associates who live outside of a 60-mile radius of a corporate office (Birmingham, Carmel, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee) may perform this role full-time work from home (WFH) from any US based location, as long as you are willing to work central or eastern time zone hours. All associates may be asked to travel to varying corporate offices periodically. Work cannot be performed from outside of the United States.

CNO provides life and health insurance, annuities, financial services, and workforce benefits solutions through our family of brands and supported by our associates and agents. Our customers work hard to save for the future, and we help protect their health, income and retirement needs with 3.2 million policies and more than $37.9 billion in total assets. Our 3,500 associates, 10,400 exclusive agents and independent partner agents guide individuals, families and businesses through a lifetime of financial decisions.

We are financially strong and well positioned for continued growth, and we are grounded in our core values of People Focused, Integrity, Customer Driven, and Excellence. We have offices in more than 260 communities in the U.S., including our headquarters in Carmel, Indiana, and corporate offices in Birmingham, Chicago, Orlando and Milwaukee.

At CNO Financial Group, we’re always looking forward—to the security and stability we help create for our insurance brands’ customers, and the growth we create within our own company. We're looking for ambitious people who want to do more. We'll provide you with opportunities to grow your skills through challenging professional experiences.

If you're looking for a culture that encourages development, helps you reach your potential, and rewards you for your contribution, then CNO Financial Group is right for you. For more information, visit CNOinc.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Compensation

Pay Range: $105,700.00 - $158,500.00 Annual

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

ReqID : JR169337

Job Type : Full time