Corporate Vice President, Product Owner, Protection Powered Growth Planning, Data & Enterprise

The Company is seeking a Corporate Vice President, Product Owner, to translate product strategy into prioritized features and delivery plans for data, calculations, integrations, and enterprise services that support financial planning experiences. Responsibilities include managing the team backlog and roadmap, defining user stories and acceptance criteria, coordinating dependencies across business and technology teams, and guiding features from definition through production and release. The role also involves making build-versus-integrate decisions, supporting data governance and compliance readiness, maintaining product quality, and driving continuous improvement. The Product Owner will collaborate with a Product Manager and peer teams, track team outcomes, and ensure releases are ready for organizational adoption. Candidates should have at least six years of experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis, or related delivery roles, including three or more years as a Product Owner or Product Manager in an Agile environment; SAFe experience is preferred. Required qualifications include strong backlog, sprint-planning, and release-management skills, along with experience delivering data-intensive or integration-dependent features. Familiarity with APIs, data models, vendor platforms, customer journeys, and Jira or equivalent tools is important. Applicants should also demonstrate strong communication, stakeholder management, and cross-team coordination skills, plus the ability to use performance measures and AI-enabled tools to improve delivery. Knowledge of insurance or financial-services processes, or the ability to quickly develop expertise in a regulated industry, is expected.