New York Life Insurance Company
Senior Associate, Digital Product Owner NYL360
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Owns the Field Manager experience within NYL360 by translating stakeholder needs into prototypes, user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint-ready backlog items. Coordinates with Product, Design, Engineering, Data, Testing, and field teams; supports sprint delivery, user acceptance testing, defect resolution, releases, pilots, and feedback-driven improvements. Uses AI tools, validates workflows, tracks dependencies and decisions, and ensures delivered functionality meets business rules and user needs.
Job Requisition ID: 94753
Location Designation: Fully Remote
Product Owner, Field Manager Experience (PF4)
NYL360 - New York Life
Reporting To Maile Oliveira, CVP - NYL360
Role Overview
We're seeking a Product Owner to support the design and delivery of the Field Manager experience within NYL360. NYL360 is New York Life's connected digital experience for the field, bringing together the tools, information, and insights advisors use every day in one place. Built first for advisors, the platform is now expanding to Field Managers and the tools they rely on to run their General Offices. You will work closely with other Product Owners, Designers, Engineers, data teams, testing teams, and field stakeholders to turn Field Manager needs into well-defined, deliverable features. This is a fast-moving transformation effort, and what the team builds will fundamentally change how Field Managers run their business every day.
What You'll Do
Shape the Work Through Prototypes• Partner with Design to turn high-level epics into working prototypes in place of traditional requirements documentation.• Define & codify "what good looks like" in terms of Field Manager needs, biz rules, data requirements, and access.• Refine the stories that come out of the prototype into clear scope and acceptance criteria for engineering.• Keep the backlog ready for weekly sprint planning.
Coordinate Across Business, Field & Technology Teams• Work in partnership with Design, Engineering, Data & Testing teams with fewer handoffs than traditional delivery models• Work directly with Field Managers and other field stakeholders to validate workflows and gather feedback.• Flag dependencies, risks, and open decisions early enough for the team to act.
Keep Weekly Delivery Moving• Participate in weekly sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives.• Answer questions and close requirement gaps in the moment so development keeps moving on a one-week cycle.• Use AI tools in your own product work. This team relies on them heavily in design and development.• Track sprint commitments, follow-ups, and open items, and own closing them out.• Capture decisions and trade-offs as they happen.
Support User Acceptance Testing & Quality• Build test scenarios based on real Field Manager workflows and business use cases.• Validate delivered functionality in the QA environment, document defects, and confirm resolutions.
Support Readiness & the Field Feedback Loop• Contribute to communications, demos, and release documentation for new capabilities.• Support pilots and phased releases, gather feedback, and translate it into product improvements.• Sort feedback and production issues into usability concerns, defects, enhancements, and maintain backlog items.
What You'll Bring
Experience & Skills• Experience in product ownership, digital delivery, or a related role preferred.• Strong ability to translate user feedback and operational pain points into a clear direction, and to carry it through delivery.• Comfort working with cross-functional teams in a complex environment with legacy systems and evolving processes.• Familiarity with Agile methodology and tools such as Jira preferred.• Uses AI tools in day-to-day work and looks for ways to apply them across product, design, and delivery.• Strong attention to detail around data accuracy, business rules, and role-based requirements.• Understanding of field leadership, field manager workflows, or the New York Life field organization is a plus.
Mindset & Behaviors• Bias for progress. Owns follow-ups, closes gaps, and finds a practical path forward when the answer is not obvious.• Decisive. Comfortable making calls with the information available and adjusting as the product evolves.• Collaborative. Co-creates and iterates with Product, Design, Technology, Data, and field partners.• Open to a different way of working. Comfortable trading heavy documentation for short cycles and working prototypes
Job Level: LEVELPF4
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.
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 Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life's leadership in this space.
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: 94753
Location Designation: Fully Remote
Product Owner, Field Manager Experience (PF4)
NYL360 - New York Life
Reporting To Maile Oliveira, CVP - NYL360
Role Overview
We're seeking a Product Owner to support the design and delivery of the Field Manager experience within NYL360. NYL360 is New York Life's connected digital experience for the field, bringing together the tools, information, and insights advisors use every day in one place. Built first for advisors, the platform is now expanding to Field Managers and the tools they rely on to run their General Offices. You will work closely with other Product Owners, Designers, Engineers, data teams, testing teams, and field stakeholders to turn Field Manager needs into well-defined, deliverable features. This is a fast-moving transformation effort, and what the team builds will fundamentally change how Field Managers run their business every day.
What You'll Do
Shape the Work Through Prototypes• Partner with Design to turn high-level epics into working prototypes in place of traditional requirements documentation.• Define & codify "what good looks like" in terms of Field Manager needs, biz rules, data requirements, and access.• Refine the stories that come out of the prototype into clear scope and acceptance criteria for engineering.• Keep the backlog ready for weekly sprint planning.
Coordinate Across Business, Field & Technology Teams• Work in partnership with Design, Engineering, Data & Testing teams with fewer handoffs than traditional delivery models• Work directly with Field Managers and other field stakeholders to validate workflows and gather feedback.• Flag dependencies, risks, and open decisions early enough for the team to act.
Keep Weekly Delivery Moving• Participate in weekly sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives.• Answer questions and close requirement gaps in the moment so development keeps moving on a one-week cycle.• Use AI tools in your own product work. This team relies on them heavily in design and development.• Track sprint commitments, follow-ups, and open items, and own closing them out.• Capture decisions and trade-offs as they happen.
Support User Acceptance Testing & Quality• Build test scenarios based on real Field Manager workflows and business use cases.• Validate delivered functionality in the QA environment, document defects, and confirm resolutions.
Support Readiness & the Field Feedback Loop• Contribute to communications, demos, and release documentation for new capabilities.• Support pilots and phased releases, gather feedback, and translate it into product improvements.• Sort feedback and production issues into usability concerns, defects, enhancements, and maintain backlog items.
What You'll Bring
Experience & Skills• Experience in product ownership, digital delivery, or a related role preferred.• Strong ability to translate user feedback and operational pain points into a clear direction, and to carry it through delivery.• Comfort working with cross-functional teams in a complex environment with legacy systems and evolving processes.• Familiarity with Agile methodology and tools such as Jira preferred.• Uses AI tools in day-to-day work and looks for ways to apply them across product, design, and delivery.• Strong attention to detail around data accuracy, business rules, and role-based requirements.• Understanding of field leadership, field manager workflows, or the New York Life field organization is a plus.
Mindset & Behaviors• Bias for progress. Owns follow-ups, closes gaps, and finds a practical path forward when the answer is not obvious.• Decisive. Comfortable making calls with the information available and adjusting as the product evolves.• Collaborative. Co-creates and iterates with Product, Design, Technology, Data, and field partners.• Open to a different way of working. Comfortable trading heavy documentation for short cycles and working prototypes
Job Level: LEVELPF4
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.
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 Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life's leadership in this space.
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: 94753
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