[Hiring] Senior Technical Product Owner @Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated

Role Description

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.

Principal 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 recommends 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• 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.

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.