Senior Product Owner (HR Access Management)

Role Overview 

We are looking for a product owner to lead HR Access Management squad at Swiss Re. Access management is an overarching topic, and it is critical to maintain our data and governance.  

As the Product Owner for HR Access Management at Swiss Re, you will lead a cross-functional squad to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant access solutions across the HR landscape. You will engage closely with HR stakeholders and fellow product owners to shape a future-ready access governance model, maintaining high standards of data protection, system integrity, and operational excellence. Your role spans strategic backlog management, roadmap delivery, and operational support setup, all while fostering a collaborative, high-performing squad environment. 

To get this work done, you will maintain and prioritize the backlog of user stories that your Squad members will help in execution.  

Responsibilities 

• Direct, inform and prioritize the order of work to maximize value within constraints of resource, strategy and compliance with an entrepreneurial attitude 

• Understand the needs of the stakeholders and from the HR products, and work with them to shape the target state that the solution enables 

• Co-create, prioritize and communicate product roadmaps and high-level squad backlogs using iterative techniques with feedback loops 

• Drive ABR / QBR process for the Product in collaboration with HR and CFIT product owners. 

• Ensure that development practices include clear test outcomes to guarantee quality of code within the development cycle; establish and run L3 Operational Support processes within squad and adoption of DevSecOps practices 

• Provide consultancy and system configuration services, handling incidents and problems, ensuring adherence to applicable requirements and strategic alignment 

• To work closely with internal stake holders, including product owners, data engineers, developers, and analysts in the squad to design and deliver product improvements. 

• To balance & manage technical debt in line with customer value work, aligning with the engineering lead on delivering to the architecture blueprint 

• To manage risks related to the product, including ORM/GRACE/RCSA, Vulnerability Management, ITSCM, Data Retention, DGF compliance, and Third-Party Cyber risk assessments together with the engineering lead. 

• Ensuring cooperation between functions and teams and manage interdependencies and remove impediments and create an environment for people to excel 

• To support the squad to deliver on budget, to clear scope, with clear guidance on timelines with clear acceptance criteria 

• Managing recruitment, onboarding, and offboarding of the squad members together with the  line manager. 

Requirements 

• Successfully completed university degree, preferably in computer science, math, physics, engineering, relevant business administration or equivalent field 

• 10+ years of work experience in IT leadership role (e.g. Product Owner, IT lead, IT project coordinator) 

• Proficiency in oral and written communication, presentation and leadership skills, with experience managing a range of stakeholders particularly from HR and Product teams 

• Several years of experience implementing and operating HR Technology in particular access management and HR core operations 

• Relevant HR access management knowledge and system configuration in SuccessFactors. 

• Passion towards people development and motivation of junior team members to build a strong talent pool and encourage them to work well in a distributed team with diverse partners spread across the world 

• Detailed real-world experience with Scrum or similar agile methodologies. A Scrum Product Owner certification is a plus 

• Interpersonal and consultative skills. 

• English proficiency is a requirement. 

• PSPO Certification (preferred). 

• Proficiency in oral and written communication, including presentation skills. 

• Ability to develop and cultivate relationships with senior stakeholders. 

• Strong business process knowledge, especially in HR and system configurations.