Chief Product Officer – Distribution
| Company | Liberty Mutual |
|---|---|
| Location | Boston, MA, USA, Portsmouth, NH, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Business expertise and knowledge of agile development methodologies and IT project management
- Bachelors’ degree in relevant field (business, computer science, etc.) and a minimum of 10 years’ experience in business, engineering, technology and/or consulting
- At least 5 years’ experience managing product management teams
- Proven business expertise needed to set clear priorities across the product domain and drive business value
- Has in depth knowledge and ability to influence business strategy for Distribution function for a commercial insurer
- Possesses strong communication and influence skills within the 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 designers
- Demonstrates passion for improving customer outcomes and experiences
- Embraces change and ‘outside of the box’ ideas-does not feel attachment to the status quo
- Encourages a non-hierarchical culture
Responsibilities
- Develops and executes product strategies and roadmaps to support digital capabilities such as broker onboarding, customer / broker account management, relationship management, customer / broker domain analytics in partnership with other domain and portfolio leaders
- Deeply understands the businesses that comprise GRS, their go-to-market strategies, their common opportunities to leverage scale, and their unique differences that are required to win in local markets
- Translates the voice of customer (from both broker and consumer perspective) and works closely with business units to take business strategy and translate into product strategies to support overall business objectives
- Represents the business by communicating the product vision broadly and effectively to key stakeholders and Sr. Management
- Prioritizes and allocates investment across products and ensures sufficient resources
- Owns the overall product backlog across the Distribution domain and provides guidance to product owners on the teams that comprise the complete effort
- Uses the overall backlog to coordinate the work of product teams, through each team’s product owner
- Functions as the final arbiter at the agile product level to order work and accepts the final release plan
- Manages final escalation on trade-offs across the product domain, provides customer-oriented feedback on product and feature demos for product teams
- Provides leadership to agile product teams and has direct managerial responsibilities for Product Owners
- Defines objectives and development plans in alignment with IT and business objectives. Manages team to achieve business results
- Champions agile development methodology transformation across the company through contribution to agile education initiatives and communicating agile principles to executive audiences
- Monitors the application of agile principles across product teams
- Leads a team of about 40 FTEs globally
- Manages diverse stakeholders globally
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.