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Senior Associate, Group Transformation Office (GTO) Product Owner
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The Role
The Product Owner defines and drives product strategy and execution, collaborating with business and technology to deliver valuable product solutions.
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Location Designation: Fully Remote
Group Benefit Solutions deliverscomprehensive insurance and absence management solutions for mid-sized and large companies. Our work fosters a healthier, happier, and more secure workforce, contributing to New York Life's legacy of beingthere when we're needed most. Here, you'll design, implement, and support these solutions directly impacting employees' lives. At our core, we provide financial security and peace of mind to people through our absence, accident, disability, voluntary benefits, and life insurance solutions. Click here to learn more about Group Benefits solutions.
Role Overview:
The Product Owner is responsible for defining and driving product strategy, roadmap, and execution for a critical product or product domain. This role serves as a key liaison between business, technology, and leadership, ensuring alignment of product initiatives with enterprise objectives and delivering measurable business value.
What You'll Do:• Own and drive product strategy and roadmap for a product or product suite, aligning with business goals, customer needs, and market opportunities• Translate complex business challenges into product solutions, leveraging deep domain expertise and data-driven insights• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple teams, ensuring alignment, prioritization, and successful delivery of high-impact outcomes• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) in the product domain, advising stakeholders and influencing best practices across teams• Make strategic prioritization decisions balancing customer value, technical feasibility, regulatory considerations, and financial impact• Collaborate with senior stakeholders (including leadership) to shape product vision, influence decisions, and manage expectations• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance processes, products, and customer experience• Oversee backlog management and execution, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities while empowering Agile teams to deliver effectively• Analyze market trends, competitive landscape, and internal performance metrics to proactively identify risks and opportunities• Lead or play a key role in large, complex programs with significant business and/or operational impact
What You'll Bring:• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience • Typically 5+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, or related domain• Demonstrated ability to own product strategy and influence outcomes across multiple teams or functions• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience addressing complex and ambiguous business challenges• Proven ability to collaborate and influence at all levels, including senior leadership• Deep understanding of Agile methodologies and product management best practices; Agile certification preferred • Experience working in complex, regulated, or enterprise environments preferred
Colorado Statement:
It is recommended that all qualified candidates apply to this posting as soon as possible. Residents of Colorado are hereby notified that the deadline to apply is two weeks from the Posting Date listed above.
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Pay Transparency
Salary range: $100,000 - $143,000
Overtime eligible: Exempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes
Sales bonus eligible: No
Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.
Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location.In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.
Our Benefits
We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.Click hereto discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.
Our Diversity Promise
We believe in a diverse workforce because it is our mission to advocate for the financial security and success of people in every community. This is why diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are guiding principles that are embedded in our brand and our culture. Click here to learn more about how we have been recognized for our leadership.
Recognized as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.
Job Requisition ID: 94048
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Group Benefit Solutions deliverscomprehensive insurance and absence management solutions for mid-sized and large companies. Our work fosters a healthier, happier, and more secure workforce, contributing to New York Life's legacy of beingthere when we're needed most. Here, you'll design, implement, and support these solutions directly impacting employees' lives. At our core, we provide financial security and peace of mind to people through our absence, accident, disability, voluntary benefits, and life insurance solutions. Click here to learn more about Group Benefits solutions.
Role Overview:
The Product Owner is responsible for defining and driving product strategy, roadmap, and execution for a critical product or product domain. This role serves as a key liaison between business, technology, and leadership, ensuring alignment of product initiatives with enterprise objectives and delivering measurable business value.
What You'll Do:• Own and drive product strategy and roadmap for a product or product suite, aligning with business goals, customer needs, and market opportunities• Translate complex business challenges into product solutions, leveraging deep domain expertise and data-driven insights• Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple teams, ensuring alignment, prioritization, and successful delivery of high-impact outcomes• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) in the product domain, advising stakeholders and influencing best practices across teams• Make strategic prioritization decisions balancing customer value, technical feasibility, regulatory considerations, and financial impact• Collaborate with senior stakeholders (including leadership) to shape product vision, influence decisions, and manage expectations• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance processes, products, and customer experience• Oversee backlog management and execution, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities while empowering Agile teams to deliver effectively• Analyze market trends, competitive landscape, and internal performance metrics to proactively identify risks and opportunities• Lead or play a key role in large, complex programs with significant business and/or operational impact
What You'll Bring:• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience • Typically 5+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, or related domain• Demonstrated ability to own product strategy and influence outcomes across multiple teams or functions• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience addressing complex and ambiguous business challenges• Proven ability to collaborate and influence at all levels, including senior leadership• Deep understanding of Agile methodologies and product management best practices; Agile certification preferred • Experience working in complex, regulated, or enterprise environments preferred
Colorado Statement:
It is recommended that all qualified candidates apply to this posting as soon as possible. Residents of Colorado are hereby notified that the deadline to apply is two weeks from the Posting Date listed above.
#LI-SV1
#LI-REMOTE
Pay Transparency
Salary range: $100,000 - $143,000
Overtime eligible: Exempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes
Sales bonus eligible: No
Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.
Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location.In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.
Our Benefits
We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.Click hereto discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.
Our Diversity Promise
We believe in a diverse workforce because it is our mission to advocate for the financial security and success of people in every community. This is why diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are guiding principles that are embedded in our brand and our culture. Click here to learn more about how we have been recognized for our leadership.
Recognized as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.
Job Requisition ID: 94048
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in product ownership or management
- Ability to own product strategy and influence outcomes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience in Agile methodologies
- Experience in complex, regulated environments
What the Team is Saying
Tyrone
Corporate Vice President, Employee Experience
Emma
Director, Tech, Data, AI, Ventures (TDAV)
Deepa
Chief Information Officer
New York Life Insurance Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — 401(k) savings with company match alongside eligibility for a defined‑benefit pension in some roles underscores unusually strong retirement depth. Plan documents note vesting requirements and company materials highlight financial education around choices like Roth 401(k).
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options are paired with tools to help choose cost‑effective care, plus FSAs/HRA and mental health/EAP resources for employees and families. Well‑being programs and wellness centers or discounts reinforce access to care.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid time off, expanded paid new‑parent leave, adoption assistance, fertility support, backup childcare, and elder‑care resources indicate broad family coverage. Company recognition for family supports and ERGs signals emphasis on flexibility and caregiving needs.
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The Company
What We Do
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of integrity, mutuality, and financial strength fuels a future defined by bold transformation. As the largest mutual life insurance company in the U.S., we operate on behalf of our policy owners—not shareholders. That structure allows us to take a long-term view, investing in people, purpose, and innovation that endures. Guided by a clear enterprise vision to become a technology-, data-, and AI-powered company, we’re modernizing our platforms, rearchitecting experiences, and embedding intelligence across our products and services. Our mission has always been about helping people through life’s most meaningful moments. Today, technology is amplifying that mission—enabling us to serve clients, advisors, and communities in more personalized, proactive ways. With a diversified business portfolio spanning insurance, investments, retirement, group benefits, and direct-to-consumer offerings, New York Life delivers the stability of a Fortune 100 company with the agility of one that’s continuously evolving. We’re powered by a values-led culture, inclusive teams, and a shared belief that when our people thrive, so does our company. Here, tradition fuels momentum—and your ideas, energy, and growth power what’s next.
Why Work With Us
New York Life is transforming from the inside out—blending 180 years of trust with the velocity of innovation. What makes us different is our culture: grounded in integrity, humanity, and shared success—values that show up in how we work, lead, and grow. If you want a place where innovation has purpose—build what's next with us.
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