Consultant, Software Engineer (Product Owner)

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week on Tuesdays & Thursdays.

We are looking for a Digital Product Owner to support DevXP products. This role will help translate problems and opportunities from engineering teams into clear, actionable work for delivery teams, with a focus on improving software engineer productivity, satisfaction, and platform adoption.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about developer tooling, platform thinking, and incremental delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Backlog management & refinement

Maintain, refine, and prioritize backlogs for DevXP products aligned to products including GitHub, Artifactory, Software Engineering Environments, and LaunchDarkly.

Break high-level outcomes into clear epics and well formed user stories with acceptance criteria.

Participate in product planning meetings for the assets.

Discovery & stakeholder collaboration

Partner with engineering leaders, Tech Leads, SREs, and security/platform partners to understand problems, pain points, and desired outcomes.

Direct outreach campaigns to developers and SEPMs for targeted product opportunities, surveys, and interviews.

Participate in and occasionally facilitate discovery sessions, workshops, and office hours to gather input and validate direction.

Delivery support

Work with agile teams to ensure stories are clear, sized, and ready for sprint planning.

Clarify requirements, answer questions, and remove day to day blockers with guidance from senior product and architecture partners.

Measurement & feedback

Use Developer Experience (DX) metrics, adoption data, and qualitative feedback to refine priorities and demonstrate value.

Partner with data teams to plan and facilitate ingestion of data to show product adoption, ROI, and friction reduction.

Communication

Draft press releases, announcements, SharePoint sites, newsletters, and visuals that explain what changed, why it matters, and how engineers can get started.

Plan and facilitate training sessions for technical and non-technical audiences.

Required Qualifications

1–3 years of experience in product, business analysis, project, or delivery roles in a technology environment.

Deep understanding of modern software delivery (Agile, CI/CD, Git, Cloud) and particular willingness to grow in developer experience and platform concepts.

Demonstrated ability to:

Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria.

Facilitate or actively participate in backlog refinement and sprint ceremonies.

Work with multiple stakeholders and balance competing priorities.

Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable tailoring messages to engineers and non technical partners.

Curiosity and growth mindset: eager to learn from data and feedback.

Knowledge

Experience working with or around:

Internal developer platforms or golden paths (e.g., templates, pipelines, shared services).

Developer tooling (GitHub, CI/CD tools, artifact repositories, feature flags, observability tooling).

Knowledge and exposure to platform or infrastructure product teams.

Familiarity with experience/feedback tooling (e.g., surveys, telemetry dashboards) and using data to inform prioritization.

Success in the First 12 Months

Maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog for assigned products with clear alignment to DevXP and enterprise outcomes.

Drive one major product increment from ideation to adoption.

Demonstrate increasing independence in day to day product decisions while escalating appropriately on higher risk items.

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Job Description SummaryIf you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

As a Software Engineer, you will focus on mentoring and leading others to deliver high quality, cost-effective technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.

Mentors and trains other team members on design techniques, tools and coding standards.

Provides strategic advice on using technology to achieve goals.

Drives cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.

Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards and optimal practices.

Champions the use of DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques.

Ensures continuous learning and improvement through ongoing training, practice and innovation.

Manages individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to a Technology Manager/Director.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics or related field is strongly preferred.

Experience: Six years of experience in programming and systems analysis. Three years of experience in project management is preferred.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Hands-on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction. Proficiency in one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript. Knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle sophisticated business and development problems. Ability to thrive in a team environment. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resources Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

The national salary range for Consultant, Software Engineer : $118,000.00-$222,000.00

The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Software Engineer : $118,000.00 - $178,000.00

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