Sr. Legal Digital and Technology Product Owner (Hybrid)

Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in digital/technology product management
  • Strong understanding of agile methodologies and data science trends
  • Experience with customer-facing technology products
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to foster cross-functional team collaboration
  • Insurance industry experience, especially in Claims or Legal, is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement digital/technology product framework and methodologies
  • Maintain and update product frameworks based on project insights
  • Lead customer empathy initiatives to identify and address user pain points
  • Collaborate extensively across teams to create change management deliverables
  • Conduct stakeholder assessments and readiness evaluations for change initiatives
  • Design strategies for communication and training related to product changes
  • Oversee the tracking and measurement of business success and readiness

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Competitive 401(k) contributions and pension plan
  • Annual incentive program and 23 paid time off days
  • Student loan repayment program
  • Paid family leave to support employees and their families
  • New Employee Orientation for better integration into the company
Full Job Description
Position Compensation Range:
$99,000.00 - $167,000.00

Pay Rate Type:
Salary

Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location. Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.

The Sr. Digital and Technology Product Owner role directly supports accelerating technology and AI adoption, and enabling more data-driven, scalable execution across AmFam's Legal Department. You will help drive value through improved efficiency, cost optimization, and better decision-making, ultimately contributing to enterprise performance and profitability. You will create scalable delivery of solutions through product ownership and standardization. You will report to the Senior Manager, Legal Operations.

In this flex office/home role, you will be expected to work a minimum of 10 days per month from either Madison, WI 53783 or Boston, MA 02110. Non-proximate internal employees are required to relocate.

We will not consider candidates who require current or future sponsorship for this position

Primary Accountabilities
  • You will develop and implement the digital/technology product framework, including methodologies, tools, and templates, to deliver and measure business readiness and success.
  • You will lead the maintenance, review, and update to the framework and toolkit based on lessons learned and evolving project needs.
  • You will oversee customer and user empathy collaboration; identifies pain points and evaluates opportunities to solve them, determining what gets built to support product; lead with broader decision making within product suite.
  • You will conduct deep collaboration across business technology and user experience, including with leadership, project teams and other relevant internal and external stakeholders, to create change-transformation deliverables, including but not limited to business case for change, leadership strategy, change impact assessment, stakeholder assessment and engagement plan, change agent network, change readiness assessments, change strategy and implementation plan, communications and training strategy and plan.


Specialized Knowledge and Skills Requirements
  • Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service.
  • Demonstrated understanding of the technology industry and data science space, including current and emerging digital solutions and trends.
  • Demonstrated experience leading multiple customer-facing digital/technology products.
  • Extensive knowledge of agile methodologies, managing data and tech projects, industry standards and best practices.
  • Extensive knowledge and understanding of the market, users, and landscape of digital products and applications.
  • Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills with ability to transfer knowledge and work cross-functionally.
  • Demonstrated strong problem solving and analytical aptitude with the ability to analyze information, interpret results, formulate conclusions and provide strong consulting.
  • Demonstrated experience fostering a collaborative and cross-functional team environment.
  • Travel requirements up to 10%.

Additional Qualifications
  • Insurance industry experience with specific focus on Claims and/or Legal is ideal.
  • Claims litigation, compliance and Guidewire experience are beneficial


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Additional Information
  • To ensure a strong start, all employees participate in our New Employee Orientation during their first week. This experience is held in person at our Madison, WI Headquarters or one of our AmFam core locations to help you connect with our mission, meet key team members and build relationships that support your growth. At times, sessions may be delivered virtually based on scheduling and availability.
  • Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks
  • Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions
  • Sponsorship will not be considered for this position unless specified in the posting


We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.

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