Senior Product Owner, Data Science

Job Description

Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines: Collaborate with business stakeholders across underwriting, claims, actuarial, and other functions to understand business problems and translate business objectives into technical outcomes. Leads the Agile team to define, prioritize, and sequence work from design through development and implementation. Collaborate with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, Data Engineers, and Architects to ensure product requirements are technically sound, scalable, and production-ready. Supports one to three Agile Scrum teams on initiatives of medium to large complexity.

Owes the team backlog, establishes story acceptance criteria, drives content via prioritized user stories, obtains customer validation and accept stories, ensuring that the solution effectively addresses overall program priorities. A thought leader in Scrum ceremonies (such as daily standups, sprint review meetings, retrospective meetings, cross-team coordination, and etc.), alongside the Scrum Master, ensuring that Scrum Teams adhere to the Scrum values of courage, focus, commitment, respect and openness in delivering high quality solutions.

Fosters an environment of continuous improvement / learning. Leading by example, facilitates Product Backlog Refinement including reviewing and updating backlog item definition and developing acceptance criteria and value statements, providing information to the team so they can establish technical feasibility and scope estimates, analyzing ways to split backlog items into smaller chunks of incremental value, helping to inform the enablers required to support new features and capabilities, and establishing their capacity allocation.

Builds customer and user insights into all stages of the Scrum planning and execution process, ensuring the continuous validation of stories with Customers and business users. Proactively analyzes metrics, and recommends changes to the product based on data from feedback loops.

Inspire and motivate a team where the members constructively challenge each other, have a sense of ownership, and advocate for the right long-term decision making. Builds a trusting and safe environment within the team, customers, and other stakeholders.

May collaborate with Product Managers and other Senior Product Owners and other Product Owners, to ensure Stories align to value, goals and objectives of overall program priorities. May perform additional duties as assigned.

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Deep understanding of data science principles, with high interest in solving business problems through AI and data science.
• Understanding advances in AI, google cloud, BI platforms, and data science techniques.
• Guide and manage change so stakeholders understand its business impact and view you as a reliable advisor and partner.
• Strong problem-solving and proven ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Effective communication with technical and non-technical teams.
• Strong executor, proven across complex initiatives.
• Champion for the adoption of new Agile technologies and methodologies.
• Ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships with stakeholders.
• Highly collaborative with good conflict resolutions skills.
• Willingness to develop Agile team members by inspiring, encouraging and providing constructive feedback.
• Solid leadership skill.
• Proven ability to work directly with Product Management, business stakeholders and technical/product teams.
• Domain knowledge of solutions being developed.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Typically a minimum of five years as a Product Owner or equivalent role.
• Strong knowledge and experience with commercial insurance products.
• Extensive expertise in data science, AI-driven technologies, and platform-based solutions.
• Successful track record with Agile methodologies.
• Applicable certifications preferred (e.g. SAFe PO/PM, CSPO or PSPO).

Benefits

CNA offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to help our employees – and their family members – achieve their physical, financial, emotional and social wellbeing goals. For a detailed look at CNA’s benefits, please visit cnabenefits.com.