Senior Associate - Data Product Owner

 

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week 

 

 

The Data Product Owner has a critical role within the AI&D product management organization that sits at the intersection of business strategy, data, and technology. Your impact is both strategic and operational. You will drive business value from data by ensuring that data isn’t just collected, but transformed into actionable insights, tools, and products that create revenue, reduce costs, and improve customer experience.

This role is ideal for someone who can bridge business needs, digital experiences, and technical capabilities to deliver enterprise data product solutions that create measurable value.

It entails working closely with data product managers, data engineering, data governance, data science and data analytics, business stakeholders to ensure our enterprise data products are scalable, reliable, and impactful.

In addition to working with AI&D cross-functional teams, the role will work closely with business counterparts across New York Life in Foundational Business, Sales, Service, Eagle Investment Advisory, NYLIFE Securities, Life and other products, Technology, and others.

 

What You’ll Do:

As a member of the AI&D product management team,  your primary focus will be to drive the delivery of the data strategy, define and manage data requirements documents, manage the roadmap, and execute on the backlog across AI&D products portfolio and enterprise foundational initiatives.

• Ownership: Deeply understand and provide input into enterprise 360 data product vision and strategy to drive effective outcomes across the enterprise. Align the strategy for various business teams and create and drive a portfolio of AI & Data cross-functional data initiatives.
• Roadmap: Define the roadmap and prioritization across the portfolio and create functional & non-functional requirements and user stories to manage product backlog and execution through scrum teams
• Definition: Articulate business problems, gather evidence from users and outside sources, clarify the potential solutions with assumptions, guiding principles, strategic connections, elicit and document the business and data requirements.
• Delivery: Partner with AI&D cross functional teams and Business Unit product managers and technology partners to ensure high-quality, efficient execution of key initiatives in a scaled agile delivery framework
• Communication: Serve as primary evangelist of AI&D strategy and data product capabilities with internal, business, and executive stakeholders by reinforcing its business value and mindset of data as a strategic asset.
• Outcomes: Drive outcomes aligned with business teams and AI&D OKRs and report key metrics driving product effectiveness, utilization, and satisfaction

 

What You’ll Bring:

You will bring relevant product management industry experience, having worked on enterprise data platforms, data governance, data integration technologies, 360 data products, AI models and services and analytics & reporting for the enterprise (ideally in the insurance and financial services industry).

 

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s OR master’s degree in a technical field (Engineering/Computer Science or related) or business-related discipline
• 2+ years of insurance or financial industry experience with related product management, design, or business-facing product development experience
• 3+ years of product management experience, including defining and managing product backlogs, writing business and data requirements.
• Proficient in working in waterfall, agile software development methodology settings.
• 3+ years of experience working with data & analytics products and experience with cloud technologies, MDM (identity resolution), data management, data governance, data science and analytics.
• Proven experience in shipping enterprise 360 data products from ideation to launch and deep understanding of data architecture and pipeline technologies, data lineage analysis, data governance, APIs, and data discovery.