Agile Product Owner

Description

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 Hartford agile tools and ceremonies (e.g., PI Planning, system demos) to ensure alignment, visibility, and effective execution.

Skills

• Agile, Scrum, SAFe, M365, PPT
• Agile methodology
• Product backlog
• Stakeholder engagement
• Product management

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Leading team as an agile product owner, reporting to agile product manager (APM).
• Working closely with business partners and development team to deliver agreed upon scope. This can include tracking down missing info, working with IT to translate requirements, QA, change management, implementation and post implementation support.

Experience Level

• Intermediate Level

Job Type & Location

• This is a Contract position based out of Hartford, CT.
• This is a fully remote position.

Pay and Benefits

• The pay range for this position is $40.00 - $55.00/hr.
• Benefits may include: Medical, dental & vision; Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital; 401(k) Retirement Plan; Life Insurance; Short and long-term disability; Health Spending Account (HSA); Transportation benefits; Employee Assistance Program; Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave).

Application Deadline

• This position is anticipated to close on Jun 23, 2026.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.