Date Posted: 06/08/2026
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 502471
Industry: Insurance
Job Title: Agile Product Owner
Job Location: Hartford, CT, USA, 06115
Work Model: Hybrid
Work Model Details: Onsite 3 days per week (T, W, Th)
Shift: 8-4:30 pm EST
Employment Type: Temp to Hire
FT/PT: Full-Time
Estimated Duration (In months): 7
Min Hourly Rate($): 50.00
Max Hourly Rate($): 60.00
Must Have Skills/Attributes: Agile, Insurance, MS Office, Product Management, Product Owner, Stakeholders
Experience Desired: Agile Product Ownership & Backlog Management (4+ yrs); MS365 experience including PPT, Word, Excel, MS Lists, SharePoint (2+ yrs); Lead day-to-day agile execution for assigned initiatives (2+ yrs)
Preferred Education: Bachelor’s Degree
Preferred Certifications/Licenses: Agile product owner certification
**C2C is not available**
Job Description
***Only qualified Agile Product Owner candidates located near Hartford, CT (In office 3 days per week) or with the ability to work remotely from within the US to be considered for this role.***
Required Education & Certifications:
• Bachelor's degree in related field
• Agile product owner certification
Required Experience, Knowledge & Skills:
• MS365 experience – PPT, Word, Excel, MS Lists, SharePoint, and others
• Excellent Presentation skills
• Excellent Organizational skills
Role:
The Agile Product Owner (APO) supports initiatives within the Global Specialty Business Product value stream, with a primary focus on underwriting capabilities, including pricing and rating tools. Reporting to the Director of Agile Product Management, the APO serves as the bridge between business strategy and agile execution—translating vision into prioritized work that delivers measurable value. In this role, the APO partners closely with Actuarial, Underwriting, Operations, Product, Data Science, and IT to define scope, refine requirements, and drive backlog readiness. The APO leads day-to-day agile execution for one or more teams, ensuring alignment to the product roadmap, business outcomes, and customer needs while enabling consistent, high-quality delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Product Ownership & Backlog Management
• Serve as the voice of the business and customer for assigned agile team(s), ensuring work delivered aligns to Global Specialty priorities and underwriting outcomes.
• Own and actively manage the team backlog, including refinement, prioritization, and readiness of features and user stories to support roadmap execution.
• Decompose features into clear, actionable user stories with defined acceptance criteria and a shared definition of done.
• Ensure backlog items are sequenced to maximize value delivery, manage dependencies, and balance capacity across initiatives.
- Agile Execution & Delivery
• Lead day-to-day agile execution for assigned initiatives, supporting sprint planning, execution, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Partner with IT and delivery teams to ensure timely delivery of capabilities while maintaining quality, transparency, and predictable outcomes.
• Accept completed work and validate that delivered outcomes meet business intent and value expectations.
• Monitor initiative health, proactively addressing risks, impediments, and delivery issues in collaboration with Agile Product Managers and delivery leadership.
- Stakeholder Partnership & Alignment
• Collaborate with Actuarial, Underwriting, Operations, Product, Data Science, and IT to refine priorities, clarify requirements, and align execution to business objectives.
• Support Agile Product Managers in translating value stream strategy and roadmaps into executable team-level work.
• Incorporate feedback from demos, stakeholders, and business outcomes to inform continuous backlog refinement and iteration.
- Continuous Improvement & Ways of Working
• Promote agile best practices, transparency, and continuous improvement across teams and stakeholders.
• Leverage Client agile tools and ceremonies (e.g., PI Planning, system demos) to ensure alignment, visibility, and effective execution - **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**
- **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**
Benefits:
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California Pay Equity:
For information and details on pay equity laws in California, please visit the State of California Department of Industrial Relations' website here.
Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.
If you need assistance in completing this application, or during any phase of the application, interview, hiring, or employment process, whether due to a disability or otherwise, please contact our HR Department.
Rose International has an official agreement (ID #132522), effective June 30, 2008, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Employment Verification Program (E-Verify). (Posting required by OCGA 13/10-91.).
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