Senior Technical Product Manager

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

The Senior Technical Product Manager is responsible for defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of one or more products in Allstate’s Benefits Group Health organization. In this role, you will manage strategic product vision, product discovery, roadmaps, and backlog to maximize the customer and enterprise value provided by their product. Successful Product Managers help to identify assumptions and validate those assumptions using product discovery techniques. The Senior Technical Product Manager is responsible for working closely with key stakeholders and partners, ensuring the successful definition and execution of go-to market and communications strategies for their products. The internal Allstate job title used for this role is Product Management (Technical) Expert.

Key Responsibilities:

• Use customer feedback, detailed market analysis, and data gathering to make decisions about product strategy.

• Create, drive and execute product strategy for one or more products in our growing digital product portfolio.

• Decompose complex problems into smaller manageable tasks by creating and prioritizing a backlog for the Product Team.

• Engage in discovery/test & learn activities to quickly validate assumptions and product direction.

• Be recognized as the voice of the customer"; invest significant time with current and potential customers to understand their needs & habits."

• Define and manage metrics to measure the success of your efforts and to inform the overall product strategy.

• Coach and mentor members of the team as well as members of the cross-functional development organization on how to collaborate and conduct idea generation, consumer research, test design and execution, measurement, product implementation, customer interactions and roll out.

• Manage the product backlog, create an effective vision, and provide timely stakeholder feedback on development iterations.

Job Qualifications:

• 5+ years of product management experience, with a strong technical background.

• Proven ability to manage complex product initiatives from start to finish.

• Experience with Agile methodologies and tools like VersionOne, Jira, Rally or similar.

• Strong communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills.

• Ability to translate business needs into actionable technical solutions.

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Education

4 year Bachelor’s Degree (Preferred)

Experience

5 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job does not have supervisory duties.

Education & Experience (in lieu)

In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Skills

Product Direction, Product Management, Product Strategies, Product Vision, Technical Specifications

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $112,000.00 - 196,750.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

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