Position Summary: The Senior Digital Product Owner serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and development teams, translating product strategy into actionable priorities. This role owns and manages the product backlog, prioritizes user stories, facilitates sprint planning, and provides ongoing guidance to development teams to ensure successful delivery of digital solutions. As an active participant in the Agile process, the Senior Digital Product Owner drives alignment, removes roadblocks, and ensures product development efforts deliver maximum business and customer value.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Own, prioritize, and maintain the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business strategy, customer needs, and organizational objectives.
• Translate product vision into actionable requirements by breaking down epics into user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and establishing sprint goals.
• Partner with development teams throughout the Agile lifecycle to provide direction, clarify requirements, resolve issues, and support successful delivery.
• Lead sprint reviews and product demonstrations, communicating progress and gathering feedback from business and technical stakeholders.
• Identify and deliver data-driven solutions, automation opportunities, and strategic insights that enhance Pricing and Risk Management decision-making and business outcomes.
• Govern data sharing and information management practices to ensure compliance, security, risk mitigation, and alignment across business and corporate functions.
• Optimize data workflows, reporting, and analytics capabilities through modern data platforms, process improvement, and stakeholder adoption initiatives.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to refine product roadmaps, develop user-centric solutions, and support product launch and adoption strategies.
• Utilize market research, customer insights, and data analytics to identify opportunities, recommend enhancements, and drive digital product innovation.
• Manage operational support, prioritize issue resolution, and evaluate business process and system impacts to optimize the user experience.
• Drive data, reporting, and automation initiatives while ensuring compliance, security, and effective information governance across business functions.
• Additional responsibilities may be added as business needs evolve.

Qualifications and Competencies Required: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience driving digital transformation initiatives, enabling and optimizing digital business processes, executing strategic product roadmaps, and delivering solutions within an Agile Scrum environment.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in business, Marketing, Engineering, Communications, or a related field.

Skills Required:

• Demonstrates the ability to analyze complex information, identify trends and opportunities, and develop innovative, effective solutions using both data-driven insights and sound business judgment.
• Applies strong analytical and technical skills to identify root causes, resolve issues efficiently, and communicate knowledge and best practices to support continuous improvement.
• Communicates effectively with diverse audiences through clear verbal and written communication, fosters collaboration, maintains confidentiality, and values diverse perspectives and feedback.
• Build strong partnerships across teams, influences stakeholders without direct authority, balances individual and team objectives, and promotes a culture of accountability and engagement.
• Thrives in dynamic environments, embraces change, drives process improvements, and demonstrates resilience while maintaining a focus on quality and operational excellence.
• Demonstrates sound business judgment, understands organizational and market impacts, aligns decisions with strategic objectives, and consistently upholds the highest standards of ethics and professionalism.
• Overtime required - required on an as needed basis.
• Travel 0-10% - as required on an as needed basis.
• Must have reliable transportation and live within a commutable distance to one of the following cities: Dallas, TX; Detroit, MI

Qualifications Preferred:

• Experience working within Agile and/or SAFe Agile frameworks

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time, use hands and arms to operate office equipment including but not limited to a keyboard, mouse and phone, will occasionally need to reach, stoop, stand or walk. The employee must be able to see (close vision), hear, speak, and communicate verbally. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Work Schedule: This position requires the ability to work various shifts to accommodate business needs. Typically, between the hours of 8AM-6PM Monday through Friday and on weekends as needed. Travel is required 10% of the time.