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About the role

  • Product Owner leading Sun Life’s traditional insurance product roadmap and agile delivery. Enabling product launches, policy-administration capabilities, integrations and downstream data flows.

Responsibilities

  • Own and prioritize the Traditional Product Development backlog, aligning investments with strategy and measurable Insurance Solutions outcomes
  • Lead quarterly and sprint planning, making trade-offs based on user value, business impact, risk, dependencies, capacity and feasibility
  • Partner with product, pricing, actuarial, operations and technology teams on new product launches, enhancements and repricing
  • Leverage AI, automation and reusable solutions to increase delivery speed and reduce implementation risk
  • Translate complex business and technical needs into features, acceptance criteria, delivery plans and implementation outcomes
  • Coordinate solutioning, data mapping, integration, testing and implementation readiness across application teams, administration systems and downstream partners
  • Identify risks, dependencies and sequencing issues; evaluate options and escalate material decisions with recommendations
  • Lead delivery through analysis, development, testing, implementation and warranty support
  • Maintain transparent plans and communicate progress, priorities, trade-offs and decisions to stakeholders and senior leaders
  • Promote automation, reusable solutions and continuous improvement
  • Strengthen knowledge sustainability through documentation, cross-training and reducing single points of failure
  • Create clarity of purpose for the agile squad and foster shared accountability
  • Build relationships across business, operations, architecture, engineering, vendor and platform teams
  • Champion backlog management, refinement, sprint reviews and evidence-based prioritization
  • Represent the squad in cross-platform planning and dependency forums

Requirements

  • Five or more years of experience in product ownership, insurance delivery, technology delivery or a related field
  • Experience leading an agile product squad, managing a prioritized backlog and defining measurable outcomes
  • Strong product management skills across vision, road mapping, discovery, prioritization and value measurement
  • Proven delivery of complex capabilities involving core systems, data flows, integrations, testing and multiple stakeholder groups
  • Experience applying AI-enabled tools to accelerate analysis and delivery, improve quality and reduce implementation risk
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, including the ability to manage ambiguity, dependencies, risks and competing priorities
  • Business acumen and the ability to connect technical and product decisions to Client, advisor, operational and financial outcomes
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills, including with senior leaders
  • A collaborative leadership style that builds trust and alignment across organizational boundaries
  • Knowledge of individual life and health insurance, including product design, pricing, policy administration and downstream processes
  • Experience enabling new insurance products, product series, repricing, regulatory changes or complex cross-system implementations
  • Knowledge of traditional policy-administration environments, inter-system feeds, batch processing or mainframe delivery

Benefits

  • Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family
  • Pension, stock and savings programs
  • Hybrid work flexibility with the choice to work from the office and virtually
  • Incentive plans for eligible employees, with payment subject to individual and company performance
  • Accommodation support in the application process and alternative job posting formats

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$100,000 - CA$143,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

HybridWaterlooCanada

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