Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Hartford is an insurance company committed to making a difference and shaping the future. As the AVP of Agile Product Management – Value Stream Owner, you will lead the transformation initiatives, driving value across the enterprise by owning the vision and flow of Value Streams, and ensuring alignment with customer needs and business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve the Value Stream vision, strategy, and roadmap—anchored in customer needs and business outcomes
- Own the agile product lifecycle and OKRs refined in coordination with the Business Transformation Leads, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and market opportunities
- Serve as the voice of the customer and the business, shaping agile product direction through insight, empathy, and data-driven insights
- Partner across the organization with functional partners and subject matter expertise to drive execution with pace and agility and amplify organizational impact
- Prioritize epics and enablers, maintain a healthy program backlog, and ensure delivery readiness
- Lead epic refinement and sign-off, ensuring change management and communications are embedded in delivery
- Champion continuous improvement and operational innovation across the Value Stream
- Translate transformation strategy into action, embedding new ways of working and measuring what matters
- Monitor performance metrics and transformation health, using data to inform decisions and fuel momentum
- Lead with empathy and clarity—building high-performing teams that are empowered, aligned, and inspired
- Attract, develop, and retain top talent across Agile Product Management and Product Ownership roles
- Act as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders, bridging vision with execution
- Navigate complexity and influence across ARTs, business units, and leadership forums
- Cascade transformation updates and product direction with clarity and purpose
- Engage stakeholders early and often—ensuring alignment, transparency, and shared ownership
- Partner with IT Delivery Leads and Agile Product Managers/Owners to balance technical tradeoffs and business value, ensuring actions and recommendations drive business value
- Lead demos and feedback loops that bring the Value Stream to life
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in product delivery, Agile coaching, business operations, or digital transformation
- Proven success leading large-scale value streams or program increments across multiple squads
- Team player with outstanding inter-personal, negotiation and organizational influencing skills
- Excellent stakeholder/relationship management skills, leadership behaviors, and strong communication and facilitation skills across all levels of the organization
- You are not afraid to challenge the status quo or legacy structures to unlock new ways of working through clarity, courage, and curiosity
- Superpowers in Lean Portfolio Management, Agile Product operations and OKR/KPIs with a proven track record of steering long-term strategies to tangible results
- Ability to align business, IT, and operations around shared priorities and measurable outcomes
- Fluency in Agile frameworks (SAFe, LeSS, Spotify) and flexibility to adapt them to real-world needs
- Bachelor's degree - required, Operations, or related field
- Prior experience in property & casualty insurance a plus
- Prior experience working with and delivering automation and agentic augmentation capabilities
Benefits
- Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition.
- This role can have a Hybrid or Remote work schedule. Candidates who live near one of our office locations have the expectation of working in an office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday). Candidates who do not live near an office will have a remote work arrangement, with the expectation of coming into an office as business needs arise.
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