Product Owner (Chatbots)

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Product Owner (Chatbots) for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Insurance Services clients in Hartford , CT.

Responsibilities:

• Participate and facilitate agile team level planning and ceremonies
• Understand prioritized Epics, Minimal Viable Product, and Features to drive feature refinement
• Implement prioritization techniques to deliver on high impact and benefit outcomes
• Maintain team predictability, define team level execution metrics and governance
• Implement benefit tracking for delivered capabilities
• Support release deployments and issue resolution
• Support Enterprise and Digital maintenance
• Lead Enterprise collaboration, coordination, and cross functional team engagement
• Proactively communicates tradeoffs and shifts in priorities to cross functional stakeholders
• Drive accountability of vended resources for delivery execution success
• Build strong partnerships with engineering, architecture, and UX to maintain high quality, customer focused chat capabilities
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify pain points and opportunities that inform the long-term vision for enterprise chat, including agentic and AI-powered experiences.
• Translate business goals into a phased roadmap balancing near-term delivery with long-term innovation.
• Support business case development and prioritization for future investments.
• Awareness of emerging trends in customer engagement across channels (phone, digital, chat, self service)
• Expertise in Chat AI experience and capabilities to recommend new customer engagement experiences
• Awareness of emerging technology impacting long term strategy of customer engagement experiences
• Evaluate and propose recommendations for tools, frameworks, opportunities for improvement with Enterprise Chat Experience
• Leverage customer feedback and sentiment to improve and enhance customer chat experiences

Required Skills:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in product ownership, digital platforms, or enterprise technology delivery
• Ability to align with product strategy, manage dependencies, and proactively remove blockers
• Demonstrated success leading agile teams and delivering scalable platform capabilities
• Deep understanding of chat and chatbot frameworks, AWS (including Lex), natural language processing (NLP), and agentic user experience (UX) concepts
• Detail oriented with exceptional communication
• Proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders, build trust and strong relationships across enterprise stakeholder groups and cross-functional teams, and drive success through stakeholder engagement, change management, and benefit realization tracking.
• Passionate about enhancing customer experience through data-driven decision-making
• Capable of translating business needs into clear technical requirements
• Proficiency with tools such as Rally, Figma, Glassbox, and Medallia

Preferred Skills:

• Agile certification (e.g., CSPO, SAFe PO/PM) strongly preferred

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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