Senior Technical Product Owner – Investments

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Missouri.

📋 Description

• Oversee strategic product planning for intricate Investment products and/or services.

• Manage the product backlog while partnering with business product managers for prioritization and delivery.

• Act as the voice of the customer to technology teams.

• Guide business product managers in articulating product vision and developing roadmaps.

• Direct business solution design for new product features and capabilities alongside technology delivery teams.

• Lead clients and stakeholders through the design of solutions and features.

• Convert business strategy and requirements into features and user stories.

• Verify that solutions have valid cost-benefit drivers and are aligned with business objectives.

• Construct multi-year strategic product roadmaps that incorporate forward-looking trends.

• Convey complex concepts through storyboards, prototypes, and interactive design techniques.

• Suggest user-centric solutions and present or pitch alternative approaches.

• Implement the RGA Product Framework and best practices.

• Serve as a technical authority throughout the development lifecycle.

• Direct cross-divisional, line-of-business, and geographic solution strategy plans.

• Evaluate stakeholder needs and the support provided by existing systems.

• Collaborate with business and IT associates to identify technology and process solutions.

• Define business objectives, delivery best practices, solution goals, service delivery details, roles, responsibilities, efforts, and success metrics.

• Document features and user stories for development teams and processes.

• Collaborate across regions and functions, forming and adapting virtual teams.

• Establish governance structures as necessary.

• Promote a positive and engaged work atmosphere.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) in IT or equivalent experience - Required.

• Professional certification or progress toward certification, such as CFA, agile certification, or product owner certification - Preferred.

• 15+ years of progressive professional experience in evaluating, delivering, and/or managing complex development and/or process improvement projects in a global context - Required.

• 10+ years of business and technical experience, including 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.

• Capability to resolve unique and complex problems with potential broad impacts on the Investments business.

• Demonstrated innovative thinking.

• Strong facilitation skills and the ability to gain business stakeholder buy-in.

• Comprehensive understanding of investment workflows, data flows, and reporting concepts.

• Skills in global teamwork and remote collaboration.

• Ability to collaboratively challenge the status quo.

• Proficiency in Business Domain Analysis, Business Architecture Development, and Business Process Modeling.

• Persuasive skills when collaborating with internal partners and external providers.

• Project management capabilities, which include assessing objectives and scope feasibility, resource scheduling, budget management, and overseeing multiple projects or sub-teams.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation abilities.

• Adaptability to new methods and capability to work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions.

• Timely and effective decision-making skills, producing results through strategic planning and program implementation and evaluation.

• Ability to liaise across operational, functional, and technical disciplines.

• Capacity to translate investment priorities into technology and data outcomes.

• Ability to draft clear, well-structured functional and non-functional requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual bonus plan.

• Eligibility for long-term equity incentive plans for certain positions.

• Comprehensive health benefits.

• Retirement benefits.

• Additional employee benefits.

• Valuable knowledge and experience gained with diverse, caring colleagues globally.

• A respectful and welcoming environment that nurtures individuality and encourages innovative thought.

• Opportunities for career growth.

• AI-assisted personalized job recommendations, automated interview scheduling, experience-based evaluation, and chatbot support during preliminary screening.