Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
Senior Associate, Product Owner (AI & Data)
Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
When you join New York Life, you’re joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture.
Join Strategic Capabilities and collaborate with a winning team developing and executing game-changing business strategies, informed by cutting-edge data and competitive insights. Fuel business growth through smart acquisitions, innovative partnerships, and impactful technology integration. Leverage AI and strategic data management to bring ideas to life, all while ensuring effective governance and project management.
New York Life’s AI and Data (AI&D) team within Strategic Capabilities delivers innovative data through the enterprise data platform, developing 360 data products, analytical insights, and AI solutions for the organization.
Role Overview:
This role serves as a Product Owner in AI&D product management organization and has accountability for creating the product functional and technical specifications/requirements, managing the roadmap and executing on the product backlog working closely with cross functional teams across data engineering, data governance, data science and data analytics within AI & Data.
In addition to working with AI&D functional teams, the role will work closely with business counterparts across New York Life in Recruiting & Development, Sales, Service, Eagle Investment Advisory, NYLIFE Securities, Life and other products, Technology and others.
The candidate should have prior product management experience working on data, AI and data products ideally in consumer facing financial services industry as well as a comfortable familiarity with technology & AI trends and industry-leading enterprise platforms.
What You’ll Do:
As a member of the AI&D product management team; your primary focus will be to define the functional and technical requirements, manage the roadmap and execute on the backlog across AI&D products portfolio and foundational initiatives.
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Ownership: Align with strategy for various business teams and create and drive a portfolio of AI & Data cross-functional initiatives to deliver on core elements of the business strategy

• Definition: Articulate business problems, gather evidence from users and outside sources, clarify the potential solutions with assumptions, guiding principles, strategic connections
• Roadmap: Define the roadmap and prioritization across the portfolio and create functional & non-functional requirements and user stories to manage product backlog and execution through scrum teams
• Delivery: Partner with AI&D cross functional teams and Business Unit product managers and technology partners to ensure high-quality, efficient execution of key initiatives in a scaled agile delivery framework
• Communication: Serve as primary evangelist of AI&D strategy and product capabilities with internal, business, and executive stakeholders
• Outcomes: Drive outcomes aligned with business teams and AI&D OKRs and report key metrics driving product effectiveness, utilization and satisfaction
• Requirements: Define and articulate functional & technical specifications and prioritize the product backlog and develop user stories to ensure development efforts meet strategic needs and deliver maximum value

What You’ll Bring:
You will bring relevant product management industry experience having worked on enterprise data platforms, data governance, data integration technologies, 360 data products, AI models and services and analytics & reporting for the enterprise (ideally in the financial services industry).

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s OR master’s degree in a technical field (Engineering/Computer Science or related) or business-related discipline
• 3+ years of industry experience with related product management, business analyst, or business-facing product development experience
• 2+ years of product owner/business analyst experience, including developing and managing roadmaps, writing product & technical specifications and managing agile processes
• 2+ years of experience working with data & analytics products and experience with cloud technologies, data governance, data science and analytics
• Proven ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and lead sprint planning, review, and refinement sessions, ensuring that the team has priorities
• Maintain and manage JIRA user stories, tasks, and backlog, ensuring proper documentation, prioritization, and alignment with sprint objectives
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including experience in developing influential presentations. Ability and executive presence to communicate persuasively with stakeholders at all levels in the organization as well as external partners
• Demonstrated success in creating measurable business benefit from products and analytics while interacting with cross functional stakeholders in a complex organization

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Proven track record of successfully managing end-to-end product lifecycles, from ideation to launch and ability to think strategically and translate insights into actionable product strategies
• Experience in insurance products, asset management or wealth management a plus
• Fluency in technical delivery, including scaled agile processes and product management tools like Confluence, Jira, Monday, a plus
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience facilitating agile processes and facilitate agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
  

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