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Requisition ID
94243
Department
Purchase Experience Value Stream
Job Function
Purchase Experience Value Stream
Location
Remote, New York, United States
Role Location Designation
Hybrid - 1 day per quarter
Role Overview:
The Universal Purchase Experience (UPX) Product Owner supports modernization of New York Life’s new business capabilities by executing on defined priorities while partnering closely with technology, operations, compliance, distribution, and other value streams.
The Product Owner operates with a high degree of autonomy and is recognized as a subject matter expert within the organization. This role plays a critical part in modernizing New York Life’s purchase experience by driving strategic initiatives, solving complex business problems, and enabling scalable, customer-centric digital capabilities.
What You'll Do:
Product Ownership & Strategy:
- Lead end-to-end execution of strategic Universal Purchase Experience (UPX) initiatives, and enhance purchase processes and workflows by leveraging digital tools and data insights.
- In partnership with the Product Manager, contribute to maintaining a product roadmap supporting PX modernization objectives.
- Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and modernize capabilities, providing recommendations for prioritization.
- Drive backlog creation, refinement, and prioritization, based on customer needs, business value, and strategic direction.
- Lead release planning, sprint alignment, and execution across multiple complex workstreams.
- Ensure solutions meet customer experience, operational, compliance, and quality expectations.
- Partner closely with the Product Manager to evaluate trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and prioritization decisions.
- Influence delivery strategy and operational execution across teams to achieve business outcomes.
Innovation & Modernization:
- Solve highly complex and ambiguous business and operational problems impacting the purchase experience.
- Lead discovery activities including problem framing, requirements synthesis, process analysis, and solution evaluation.
- Identify opportunities to modernize purchase workflows and improve operational efficiency through digital capabilities and automation.
- Leverage customer insights, analytics, experimentation, and industry trends to inform recommendations and prioritization.
- Champion intuitive, consistent, and frictionless experiences for agents, clients, and internal users.
- Contribute to roadmap development and long-term strategic planning for the UPX portfolio.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with UX/UI teams to support user-centered digital workflows.
- Serve as a key liaison across business, technology, operations, underwriting, compliance, distribution, and vendor partners.
- Represent Product in cross-functional forums and influence stakeholders on execution approach, priorities, and timelines.
- Build alignment across teams while balancing competing priorities and enterprise objectives.
- Act as a trusted proxy for Product Management leadership when representing product strategy, priorities, and delivery decisions.
- Communicate complex concepts, risks, and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
Execution & Delivery:
- Execute sprint-level delivery activities including backlog grooming, sprint planning support, UAT coordination, and release readiness.
- Translate business needs into product requirements, epics, and user stories.
- Partner with technology teams on sprint planning and release execution.
- Manage vendor interactions where applicable.
- Ensure adherence to regulatory and compliance requirements.
What You'll Bring:
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Technology, or related field.
- 7–10+ years of experience in product ownership, product operations, digital delivery, or related strategic roles.
- Experience leading complex digital initiatives in highly cross-functional environments.
- Strong understanding of insurance purchase workflows, suitability, replacements, funding, underwriting, and new business systems.
- Demonstrated ability to influence strategic decisions and drive execution across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Advanced proficiency in Jira and Microsoft Office products including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working in Agile product delivery environments.
Preferred
- Experience with new business systems (front end eApplications, Suitability rules-engines, internal/external funding).
- Knowledge of digital purchase journeys and modern new business platforms.
- Agile certifications (PO/PM, PMI-ACP) or equivalent experience.
Core Competencies
- Strategic execution leadership
- Enterprise and cross-functional collaboration
- Advanced problem solving and analytical thinking
- Influencing and stakeholder management
- Product delivery and operational excellence
- Customer and advisor focused mindset
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $119,000-$160,000
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.
Please note: This role requires FINRA licensed and/or FINRA Associated Person pre-hire fingerprinting.
Company Overview
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.
Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities—inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you’ll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.
As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what’s next, and your growth powers it.
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.
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.
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.
Job Requisition ID: 94243
Job Description
Requisition ID
94243
Department
Purchase Experience Value Stream
Job Function
Purchase Experience Value Stream
Location
Remote, New York, United States
Role Location Designation
Hybrid - 1 day per quarter
Role Overview:
The Universal Purchase Experience (UPX) Product Owner supports modernization of New York Life’s new business capabilities by executing on defined priorities while partnering closely with technology, operations, compliance, distribution, and other value streams.
The Product Owner operates with a high degree of autonomy and is recognized as a subject matter expert within the organization. This role plays a critical part in modernizing New York Life’s purchase experience by driving strategic initiatives, solving complex business problems, and enabling scalable, customer-centric digital capabilities.
What You'll Do:
Product Ownership & Strategy:
- Lead end-to-end execution of strategic Universal Purchase Experience (UPX) initiatives, and enhance purchase processes and workflows by leveraging digital tools and data insights.
- In partnership with the Product Manager, contribute to maintaining a product roadmap supporting PX modernization objectives.
- Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and modernize capabilities, providing recommendations for prioritization.
- Drive backlog creation, refinement, and prioritization, based on customer needs, business value, and strategic direction.
- Lead release planning, sprint alignment, and execution across multiple complex workstreams.
- Ensure solutions meet customer experience, operational, compliance, and quality expectations.
- Partner closely with the Product Manager to evaluate trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and prioritization decisions.
- Influence delivery strategy and operational execution across teams to achieve business outcomes.
Innovation & Modernization:
- Solve highly complex and ambiguous business and operational problems impacting the purchase experience.
- Lead discovery activities including problem framing, requirements synthesis, process analysis, and solution evaluation.
- Identify opportunities to modernize purchase workflows and improve operational efficiency through digital capabilities and automation.
- Leverage customer insights, analytics, experimentation, and industry trends to inform recommendations and prioritization.
- Champion intuitive, consistent, and frictionless experiences for agents, clients, and internal users.
- Contribute to roadmap development and long-term strategic planning for the UPX portfolio.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with UX/UI teams to support user-centered digital workflows.
- Serve as a key liaison across business, technology, operations, underwriting, compliance, distribution, and vendor partners.
- Represent Product in cross-functional forums and influence stakeholders on execution approach, priorities, and timelines.
- Build alignment across teams while balancing competing priorities and enterprise objectives.
- Act as a trusted proxy for Product Management leadership when representing product strategy, priorities, and delivery decisions.
- Communicate complex concepts, risks, and recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
Execution & Delivery:
- Execute sprint-level delivery activities including backlog grooming, sprint planning support, UAT coordination, and release readiness.
- Translate business needs into product requirements, epics, and user stories.
- Partner with technology teams on sprint planning and release execution.
- Manage vendor interactions where applicable.
- Ensure adherence to regulatory and compliance requirements.
What You'll Bring:
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Technology, or related field.
- 7–10+ years of experience in product ownership, product operations, digital delivery, or related strategic roles.
- Experience leading complex digital initiatives in highly cross-functional environments.
- Strong understanding of insurance purchase workflows, suitability, replacements, funding, underwriting, and new business systems.
- Demonstrated ability to influence strategic decisions and drive execution across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Advanced proficiency in Jira and Microsoft Office products including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working in Agile product delivery environments.
Preferred
- Experience with new business systems (front end eApplications, Suitability rules-engines, internal/external funding).
- Knowledge of digital purchase journeys and modern new business platforms.
- Agile certifications (PO/PM, PMI-ACP) or equivalent experience.
Core Competencies
- Strategic execution leadership
- Enterprise and cross-functional collaboration
- Advanced problem solving and analytical thinking
- Influencing and stakeholder management
- Product delivery and operational excellence
- Customer and advisor focused mindset
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $119,000-$160,000
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.
Please note: This role requires FINRA licensed and/or FINRA Associated Person pre-hire fingerprinting.
Company Overview
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.
Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities—inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you’ll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.
As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what’s next, and your growth powers it.
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.
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.
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.
Job Requisition ID: 94243
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Software Product Manager
Lead with technical depth, not just product sense
H-1B approval for Product Managers hinges on demonstrating specialty occupation. Emphasize your technical background, engineering collaboration, and degree-specific skills. Employers who sponsor PMs expect candidates who can credibly bridge product and engineering.
Target companies with an established H-1B track record
Large tech employers and growth-stage startups with dedicated legal teams sponsor PMs far more consistently than early-stage companies. A history of prior PM sponsorship signals that the company understands the process and won't back out.
Clarify your visa timeline before the offer stage
If you're on OPT or a grace period, employers need lead time to file. Raising your status early in the process lets both sides plan realistically and avoids surprises after an offer is extended and accepted.
Frame your degree as a direct qualifier for the role
USCIS scrutinizes PM roles closely. A computer science or engineering degree strengthens your case significantly. If your degree is in a different field, be prepared to show how your coursework directly connects to the product management functions in the job description.
Prioritize roles with strong technical specialization
PM positions tied to a specific technical domain, such as platform infrastructure, developer tools, or machine learning products, are easier to defend as specialty occupations than generalist PM roles. Specialization makes the degree requirement more defensible under USCIS standards.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for roles that explicitly sponsor
Not every PM job listing makes sponsorship eligibility obvious. Migrate Mate surfaces roles where employers have confirmed willingness to sponsor, saving you from applying to positions that will stall at the offer stage.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do Software Product Manager roles qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, but USCIS scrutinizes PM roles more than engineering titles because the specialty occupation requirement is harder to establish. Approval is strongest when the role requires a specific technical degree and involves deep collaboration with engineering teams. Generalist PM positions with vague degree requirements face higher RFE rates. Roles tied to a defined technical domain, such as API products, data platforms, or developer tooling, tend to hold up better under review.
What degree do I need to get sponsored as a Software Product Manager?
Most employers require a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a closely related technical field. An MBA or business degree alone is unlikely to satisfy specialty occupation standards for a PM role at a tech company. If your degree is in a non-technical field, you'll need to demonstrate through coursework and experience that your education directly qualifies you for the specific technical responsibilities in the job description.
How common is H-1B sponsorship for Product Manager roles in tech?
PM roles appear frequently in H-1B visa disclosure data, particularly at large tech employers. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and mid-size SaaS companies regularly sponsor this title. That said, sponsorship rates vary significantly by company size and immigration infrastructure. Startups without dedicated legal teams are less likely to sponsor. Browsing open roles on Migrate Mate lets you focus specifically on employers who have confirmed they will sponsor.
Can I get an L-1 visa as a Product Manager transferring from an overseas office?
Yes, if you've worked for the same employer abroad for at least one continuous year within the past three years in a managerial, executive, or specialized knowledge capacity. L-1B specialized knowledge is the most common path for PM transfers, requiring you to demonstrate that your product knowledge, internal systems expertise, or domain experience is proprietary and not easily transferable to an outside hire. The standard is fact-specific and varies by employer.
What makes a Software Product Manager role harder to sponsor than a software engineering role?
USCIS evaluates whether the position normally requires a specific bachelor's degree as a minimum entry requirement. Engineering roles clear this bar easily. PM roles are harder to defend because job postings often list degrees in multiple unrelated fields or emphasize experience over formal education. Employers that sponsor PMs successfully tend to write job descriptions that narrow the degree field and explicitly connect technical requirements to product responsibilities, making the specialty occupation argument cleaner.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Software Product Manager jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.