Job Classification:
Technology - Agile, Delivery, & Product
Prudential’s Distributor Domain team empowers Prudential’s agents and advisors to sell life insurance, annuities and retirement services to customers nationwide. Our domain-driven, platform team plays a critical and highly visible role in delivering solutions across multiple lines of business. The Distributor Domain team is made up of diverse, agile-thinking, and highly skilled professionals; we use our combined capabilities to enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency.
The Distributor Domain team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA. When you join our organization, you’ll tackle some of Prudential’s largest business and technical challenges, leverage modern technologies and infrastructures, and unlock a challenging and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.
This Agile Product Owner role is accountable for continued build out of the Distributor Domain platform supporting servicing use cases across Annuities and Life products. This role will work on the cutting edge of defining the future of our technology organization and the way our technology serves clients in this space going forward.
We are an Agile shop and as a Lead Product Owner you must have experience working in the Agile Scrum SDLC. Knowledge of SAFe Agile is also highly desirable. Some technical background is also a plus.
Location: Newark, NJ hybrid (minimum 2 days/week in office)
Responsibilities:
• Work with the SAE/CPO of Contract/Policy Domain to set clear product vision.
• Assist in communicating the product vision to key stakeholders and the members of our clients and consumers.
• Ensure alignment of product features with Agile Epics, Features, and Stories with the overall product vision.
• Create and continuously improve the product backlog, working with the team and Scrum Master, ensuring all items are clearly described, estimated, and prioritized.
• Review, provide feedback, and approve all work completed by the team (aka: Product Owner Review) before that work gets release to our business partners.
• Work closely with the team Tech Lead and the platform System Architect to deliver solutions that are modular, reusable, and technology forward.
• Establish and lead multiple teams across the Domain Journey to build skill sets, enhance collaboration on development, and optimize compensation capabilities for speed to market and operational efficiency.
Professional Skills:
• 5 + years of industry experience with strong expertise in life insurance & annuity product development and servicing
• Must have direct experience actively using the Agile SDLC
• Must be proficient with Jira or equivalent tools
• Strong communication skills with ability to align the organization on complex business feature support and assistance in making technical decisions
• Active coach and mentor whose goals are to grow and maximize the team’s potential
• Establishes a clear vision and strategy, focuses externally, takes intelligent risks and collaborates to seize opportunities.
• Adept at demonstrating soft skills such as collaboration, creative thinking, critical observation, decision making and problem solving.
What we offer you:
Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $160,700.00 to $217,300.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.
Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.
Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.
