Senior Technical Product Owner - Investments

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated; United States; Remote; USD 127,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated seeks a senior product owner for Investments products to lead vision, roadmap, and stakeholder alignment. You will guide business product managers, translate needs into features, and collaborate with technology teams to deliver complex investment solutions.

Ideal candidates have extensive experience in product ownership within insurance or asset management, strong communication, and the ability to work across regions.

Qualifications

• Ability to solve unique and complex problems that have a potentially broad impact on the Investments business.
• Facilitation skills with the ability to obtain buy-in from business stakeholders on deliverables, serving as the primary point of contact between Investment stakeholders and Technology delivery teams for assigned initiatives.
• Solid understanding of investment workflows, data flows, and reporting concepts.
• Global teaming and remote collaboration skills.
• Ability to challenge the status quo in a facilitative and collaborative way.
• Competent in Business Domain Analysis, Business Architecture Development and Business Process Modeling.
• Persuasion skills when working with internal partners and external providers to resolve issues/problems.
• Project management skills. Demonstrates ability to evaluate project objectives and scope feasibility, gain understanding, schedule resources, and manage budget to plan; and, managing multiple projects and/or sub-teams simultaneously.
• Oral and written communication skills including presentation skills, demonstrating the ability to convey information in a way that is meaningful and well received by stakeholders and team members.
• Ability to adapt new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions.
• Ability to make timely and effective decisions and produce results through strategic planning and the implementation and evaluation of programs and Ability to foster a teamwork and customer service focused environment.
• Ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines.
• Translates investment priorities into technology and data outcomes and oversees analysis across major investment initiatives. This includes creating clear, well-structured functional and non-functional requirements.

Responsibilities

• Define product-level vision in concert with a technology roadmap leveraging portfolio capabilities, frameworks, and processes.
• Translate business needs into features and stories for delivery teams, ensuring alignment with objectives.
• Build multi-year strategic product roadmaps in partnership with the Business Product Manager.
• Communicate complex concepts through storyboards, prototypes and user-centric design; present alternative approaches.
• Leverage the RGA Product Framework to develop solution recommendations and proposals.
• Serve as a technical expert to ensure accurate interpretation throughout the development lifecycle.
• Create and maintain the product backlog with prioritization and delivery guidance.
• Develop cross-divisional/line-of-business/ geography solution strategy plans and translate into an implementation roadmap.
• Work across regions and functions; establish governance structures as appropriate.
• Foster a positive and engaged work environment.

Education

BA/BS IT or equivalent

CFA, agile certification, product owner certification - Preferred

Job description

You desire impactful work.

You’re RGA ready

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 200 Company and listed among its World's Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

This role consists of strategic product planning, managing the product backlog, being the voice of the customer to the technology teams, business solution design, and project oversight responsibilities for a group of complex Investments products and/or services. You will lead business product managers through defining their product vision and roadmap by leveraging your in-depth industry knowledge, interpretation of business challenges, understanding of key stakeholder needs, and deep technology expertise. You will fulfill this vision by leading and directing the business solution design practice for new product features and capabilities in close partnership with the technology delivery team.

Principle Duties

• Leads business product managers to define product-level vision in concert with a technology roadmap leveraging portfolio capabilities, frameworks, and processes.
• Leads external clients and/or stakeholders through the design of new product and/or solution features, starting with understanding the business strategy, defining the business need and translating into features and stories for delivery teams, while ensuring the overall approach has valid cost-benefit drivers, and aligns with the business objectives.
• Builds out multi-year strategic product roadmaps incorporating forward looking trends based on business and technology expertise In partnership with the Business Product Manager
• Communicates complex concepts through storyboards, prototypes and other interactive design techniques and recommend user-centric solutions; including presenting, pitching, and convincing others to accept alternative approaches to the problem/solution paradigm.
• Leverages the RGA Product Framework and best practices for developing user/business centric solution recommendations and proposals.
• Serves as a Technical expert to ensure accurate interpretation of these needs throughout the development lifecycle.
• Creates and maintains the product backlog; collaborating with business product manager on prioritization and delivery.
• Leads the effort to develop cross-divisional/line of business /geography solution strategy plans for functional product: Identifies and understand stakeholder needs; Assesses existing systems support for the business needs; Works with the appropriate business and IT associates to find the best solutions (across technology and process) and with the functional leads to ensure business processes make the most efficient and effective use of the technology deployed; Develops business objectives, delivery best practices and solution goals; Works with the functional leads to specify in detail how the service will be delivered, roles and responsibilities, effort, and how to measure success of the service and its contribution to supporting the business as part of translating the Business Architecture into an implementation roadmap; and, Documents features and user stories as needed to support the development teams and process.
• Works seamlessly across regions and functions, forming, evolving, and disbanding virtual teams; including establishment of governance structures as appropriate to achieve the objectives.
• Fosters a positive and engaged work environment.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) IT or equivalent experience - Required
• Professional certification or progress toward certification, such as CFA, agile certification, product owner certification - Preferred

Work Experience

• 15+ years progressive professional experience evaluating, delivering, and/or managing complex development and/or process improvement projects in a global environment - Required
• 10+ years business and technical experience, of which includes 5+ years specifically in product ownership, business analysis, investment operations, or technology delivery within an insurance company, asset manager, reinsurer, or institutional investment organization - Required

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to solve unique and complex problems that have a potentially broad impact on the Investments business. Must be a proven, innovative thinker - Required

• Facilitation skills with the ability to obtain buy-in from business stakeholders on deliverables, serving as the primary point of contact between Investment stakeholders and Technology delivery teams for assigned initiatives - Required

• Solid understanding of investment workflows, data flows, and reporting concepts - Required

• Global teaming and remote collaboration skills - Required

• Ability to challenge the status quo in a facilitative and collaborative way - Required

• Competent in Business Domain Analysis, Business Architecture Development and Business Process Modeling - Required

• Persuasion skills when working with internal partners and external providers to resolve issues/problems. - Required

• Project management skills. Demonstrates ability to evaluate project objectives and scope feasibility, gain understanding, schedule resources, and manage budget to plan; and, managing multiple projects and/or sub-teams simultaneously - Required

• Oral and written communication skills including presentation skills, demonstrating the ability to convey information in a way that is meaningful and well received by stakeholders and team members - Required

• Ability to adapt new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions - Required

• Ability to make timely and effective decisions and produce results through strategic planning and the implementation and evaluation of programs and Ability to foster a teamwork and customer service focused environment - Required

• Ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines - Required

• Translates investment priorities into technology and data outcomes and oversees analysis across major investment initiatives. This includes creating clear, well-structured functional and non-functional requirements. - Required

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What you can expect from RGA:

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.

• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.

• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.

We’re excited to get to know you and connect your unique skills with our global opportunities. To create a modern and seamless experience, we use artificial intelligence (AI) in parts of our preliminary screening process. This technology helps us personalize job recommendations, automate interview scheduling, evaluate candidates based solely on experience—without considering name, gender, or other personal details—and provide real-time answers through our chatbot. AI is used only during early screening and never makes hiring decisions. Your RGA recruiter will work closely with you every step of the way to ensure the process feels personal, thoughtful, and focused on you.

Compensation Range:

$126,710.00 - $188,840.00 Annual

Base pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.

RGA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, sex, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.