AVP, Agile Product Management – Value Stream Owner – Global Specialty

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​You are a strategic orchestrator and customer advocate—a leader who thrives at the intersection of business vision and agile product execution. As AVP, Agile Product Management – Value Stream Owner, you’ll shape and steer the future of our Global Specialty transformation initiatives, driving value across the enterprise.

You’ll own the vision and flow of one or more Value Streams, translating strategy into outcomes and outcomes into impact. You’ll lead with clarity, influence across silos, and empower teams to deliver measurable value—without losing sight of creativity, context, or the customer.

This role reports to the Head of Transformation and may lead a team of Agile Product Managers or Owners.

How You’ll Drive Transformation

Strategic Direction & Execution

• 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.

Operational Excellence & Change Enablement

• 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.

Leadership & Collaboration

• 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.

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

• 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.

What You Will Bring:

• Deep Expertise: 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. Prior experience in property & casualty insurance a plus.

• Collaboration Extraordinaire: 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.

• Inventive Mindset: You are not afraid to challenge the status quo or legacy structures to unlock new ways of working through clarity, courage, and curiosity. Prior experience working with and delivering automation and agentic augmentation capabilities.

• Fluency and Acumen: 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.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree - required, Operations, or related field

• 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.

Compensation

The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is:

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