Senior Director of Product & Agile Transformation

Liberty Mutual Surety; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Mutual is seeking a Senior Director, Product Owner to align Global Surety's business objectives with our technology investments. You will lead agile transformation, manage product strategy, and coordinate across stakeholders to deliver measurable business results.

The role requires extensive experience in product management, Agile practices, and leadership across global teams, with a focus on driving customer value and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 10+ years of experience in business, engineering, technology and/or consulting.
• Master's degree preferred.
• At least 5 years experience managing product management teams.
• Proven business expertise needed to set clear priorities across the product portfolio and drive business value.
• Has in depth knowledge and ability to influence business strategy.
• Possesses strong communication and influence skills within reporting line as well as with IT and business peers.
• Excellent collaboration skills -- leading execution across teams, influencing across organizations, respected, experience of working across levels from developers and designersDemonstrates passion for improving customer outcomes and experiences.
• Embraces change and `outside of the box` ideas-does not feel attachment to the status quo.
• Encourages non-hierarchical culture

Responsibilities

• Translate portfolio-level business objectives into technology product strategies.
• Ensure customer satisfaction and progress of the transformation to Agile development methodology.
• Work closely with business units to translate business strategy into product strategies to support overall business objectives.
• Represent the business by communicating the product vision to key stakeholders and Senior Management.
• Allocate investment across products and ensure sufficient resources.
• Own the overall product backlog and provide guidance to product owners on the scrum teams.
• Use the overall backlog to coordinate the work of product teams through each team`s product owner.
• Function as the final arbiter at the product level to order work and accept the final release plan.
• Manage final escalation on trade-offs across the product portfolio; provide customer-oriented feedback on product and feature demos for scrum sub-teams.
• Provide leadership to agile product teams and have direct managerial responsibilities for Product Owners and other Agile development team roles.
• Define objectives and development plans in alignment with IT and business objectives.
• Manage team to achieve business results.
• Champion Agile development methodology transformation across the company through contribution to Agile education initiatives and communicating agile principles to executive audiences.
• Monitor the application of Agile principles across product teams.

Skills

Agile development

Product management

Strategic planning

Stakeholder communication

Leadership

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master's degree

Job description

Liberty Mutual is seeking a Senior Director, Product Owner to align Global Surety's business objectives with our technology investments. You will lead agile transformation, manage product strategy, and coordinate across stakeholders to deliver measurable business results.

The role requires extensive experience in product management, Agile practices, and leadership across global teams, with a focus on driving customer value and business outcomes.