Product Owner

The Opportunity

Join our dynamic team as a Product Owner, where you'll play a pivotal role in driving the execution of our technology strategy. As a key collaborator, you will lead complex, high-impact programs across the organization. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing cross-functional teams and managing multiple, large-scale initiatives from concept to completion. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of driving successful program execution, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, and delivering measurable business results. You will work closely with executive leadership, stakeholders, and project teams to ensure the timely and efficient delivery of key programs. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we invite you to be part of our journey towards excellence.

The Team

You'll be an integral part of our esteemed Corporate Technology Team, focused on Finance Technology. Our team operates on a global scale, driving innovation and excellence across diverse areas of expertise. As a Senior Product Owner, you'll play a pivotal role in high impact Corporate Technology Finance Initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and driving impactful outcomes. This is a high-visibility position, offering the opportunity to collaborate closely with our esteemed Corporate Technology leadership team. Our team thrives on collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to excellence. Together, we're shaping the future of technology within our organization and making a lasting impact on a global scale. Join us and be part of a dynamic team where your contributions will be valued and your potential unleashed.

The Impact:

Strategic Product Leadership

• Define and own the product vision and multi-year roadmap for finance systems across Actuarial, Financial Planning.
• Lead transformation initiatives for policy accounting, claims financial integration, investment ledger systems, and GAAP/STAT reporting platforms.
   

End-to-End Product Ownership

• Prioritize and manage the product backlog, ensuring traceable and compliant financial system requirements.
• Translate complex regulatory, actuarial, and financial needs into actionable features and technical stories.
• Own delivery of key product milestones related to Financial Modeling, ALM, Actuarial applications and Treasury functionality

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner with finance, actuarial, reinsurance, investments, IT, and compliance leaders to align product delivery with strategic business objectives.
• Lead cross-functional working groups with business SMEs and technology teams.
   

Execution Oversight & Delivery

• Guide Agile development teams through sprint planning, refinement, testing, and deployment cycles.
• Ensure high-quality documentation, audit-ability, and financial data integrity within and across systems e.g., GL, sub-ledgers, actuarial tools, data lakes.
   

Insurance Compliance and Data Governance

• Ensure products meet compliance mandates from regulators.
• Implement strong financial controls and data governance for downstream reporting, including support for actuarial models and investment reporting systems.
   

Continuous Innovation

• Champion modernization initiatives including cloud implementations, robotic process automation (RPA), smart reconciliation, and AI-enhanced forecasting tailored for insurance finance functions.
• Benchmark technology capabilities against industry peers and bring forward new ideas to enable scalability and compliance efficiency.

The Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree
• 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 5 years focused on finance technology in the insurance sector.
• 2+ years of deep domain knowledge of insurance financial processes, including premium billing, claims reserving, actuarial feeds, investment accounting, and reinsurance settlements.
• 2+ years of experience with ERP platforms e.g., Oracle, SAP, Workday and insurance systems e.g., Guidewire, Duck Creek, FIS, Moody’s AXIS, or custom-built tools.

The Ideal Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or Actuarial Science.
• Solid understanding of insurance regulatory frameworks e.g., GAAP, STAT and LDTI.
• Agile certification (e.g., CSPO) and proven track record leading high-performing Agile teams.
• CPA, CFA, or CPCU designation is a strong plus.
• Hands-on experience with finance data lakes, insurance data warehouses, and cloud-native financial platforms.
• Experience integrating financial systems with actuarial, policy administration, and claims platforms.
• Familiarity with reinsurance finance processes and tools e.g, TAI.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to influence and motivate teams without direct authority.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple initiatives.

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Salary Range:

At MassMutual, we focus on ensuring fair equitable pay, by providing competitive salaries, along with incentive and bonus opportunities for all employees. Your total compensation package includes either a bonus target or in a sales-focused role a Variable Incentive Compensation component.

Why Join Us.

We’ve been around since 1851. During our history, we’ve learned a few things about making sure our customers are our top priority. In order to meet and exceed their expectations, we must have the best people providing the best thinking, products and services. To accomplish this, we celebrate an inclusive, vibrant and diverse culture that encourages growth, openness and opportunities for everyone. A career with MassMutual means you will be part of a strong, stable and ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits. And your voice will always be heard.

We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company owned by our policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to put customers first. It’s more than our company structure – it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources, and rely on each other when it counts. At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.

MassMutual is an equal employment opportunity employer. We welcome all persons to apply.

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At MassMutual, we focus on ensuring fair, equitable pay by providing competitive salaries, along with incentive and bonus opportunities for all employees.  Your total compensation package includes either a bonus target or in a sales-focused role a Variable Incentive Compensation component.  For more information about our extensive benefits offerings please check out our Total Rewards at a Glance.