AVP BSI Agile Product Lead (AI)

Location: Hybrid, CT - Hartford, United States of America

Annual base salary: $173,700.00–$286,600.00, plus eligibility for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Company

hirify.global is a property casualty insurer providing surety, management liability, and specialty insurance products to agents, brokers, and commercial customers.

What you will do

• Apply modern software product management practices across Bond & Specialty Insurance to improve customer outcomes and measurable business results.
• Manage and develop Agile Product Owners, directly and/or through a matrix structure, while establishing role expectations and performance standards.
• Partner with business, technology, value stream, circle, and enterprise leaders to shape product vision, multi-year roadmaps, operating rhythms, governance, and OKRs.
• Lead outcome-oriented prioritization, initiative scoping, funding, budget preparation, and measurement across concurrent product teams.
• Develop AI-era requirements and discovery practices, including AI-assisted backlog development, user story generation, acceptance test creation, and dependency analysis with business validation and traceability.
• Build the BSI product discipline through coaching, mentoring, community-of-practice leadership, capability assessments, upskilling, and career pathing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline; a Master’s Degree or MBA is preferred.
• At least seven years of experience in software product management, product ownership, or a closely related discipline.
• At least four years of people management or team leadership experience; the ideal profile has five or more years in a leadership role within a large, matrixed organization.
• Experience with scaled Agile frameworks such as SAFe, LeSS, or equivalent, including OKR-based prioritization and outcome-oriented delivery across multiple concurrent product teams.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, influencing, and presentation skills across all organizational levels.
• Knowledge of emerging AI tools and their application throughout the software product management lifecycle.

Nice to have

• Experience in commercial lines or specialty insurance, including familiarity with underwriting workflows, policy lifecycle, or distribution systems.
• Master’s Degree or MBA.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a collaborative, innovation-focused organization.
• Health insurance for employees and eligible family members from the first day of employment.
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) matching up to the first 5% of eligible pay, a student-loan savings program, and a hirify.global-funded pension plan.
• At least 20 paid time-off days annually plus nine paid company holidays.
• Wellness resources, mental health counseling, health coaching, caregiving support, and community volunteering programs.

Hiring process

• hirify.global may fill the position at a level above or below the level stated in the posting.
• Candidates with questions about the role’s physical requirements may contact hirify.global for assistance.