Hybrid Senior Technical Product Owner, Guardian Insights

at Guardian Life

• Job title: Senior Technical Product Owner, Guardian Insights
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $118,980 - $195,465 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Kafka, Postgres
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Boston, United States

About the role

• Senior Product Owner for Guardian’s next-generation reporting and insights platform. Redefining how brokers and employers understand plan performance, costs, and engagement for better outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Translate the product vision and strategy into a team backlog, including user stories with clear acceptance criteria and tasks, ensuring alignment with epics and customer needs
• Work closely with the Product Manager (PDM) to prioritize and implement process improvements, track progress and communicate updates to stakeholders
• Define, prioritize, and sequence product features and requirements in the team backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs
• Manage the backlog and roadmap in collaboration with the Tech Lead
• Break down data requirements into the team backlog and ensure timely and quality delivery of product functionality and desired customer experience
• Work with data and AI SMEs to ensure data and AI standards are met across applications
• Conduct go-to-market readiness activities as the team prepares for release, including reviewing the release plan with the PDM
• Bring customer feedback into prioritization to improve adoption, usability, and product impact.
• Maintain a consistent, practical quality bar—clear outcomes, intuitive user experiences, and reliable data—while saying 'no' thoughtfully to lower‑value work to protect team focus.
• Continuously scan best‑in‑class products and apply proven design and product patterns to elevate our roadmap and user experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• A minimum of 5-7 years of experience in product management or a related field
• Proven experience in defining and driving product roadmaps, integrating customer research, and ensuring compliance with data/AI standards
• Strong knowledge of product journey mapping, business process improvement, and OKR management
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines
• Hands-on experience with APIs, payload structures, and common integration patterns
• Comfort working with relational databases (e.g., RDS, Aurora, PostgreSQL) and familiarity with event-driven architectures (e.g., SNS, Kafka) and transactional email systems (e.g., SES, SendGrid)
• Experience supporting user-facing features, including web interfaces and email experiences
• A high ownership mindset, resourcefulness, and the ability to move quickly and figure things out.

Benefits

• Opportunities to build communities and grow your career
• Skill-building
• Leadership development
• Philanthropic opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits for full-time eligible employees