Digital Product Manager

Job Summary:

The Product Manager Expert is responsible for defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of one or more products in Allstate s growing product portfolio. The Product Manager Expert manages 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 Product Manager Expert 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.

Key Responsibilities:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

Education and Experience:

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

• 7 or more years of experience (Preferred)

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

Functional Skills:

• Understanding of, and experience working in, a technology development environment

• Entrepreneurial with a strong inclination towards action, preferably with experience shipping software.

• Experience operating in an environment driven by KPIs where you had the accountability to determine the best course of action to meet your goals.

• Advanced ability to communicate complex and innovative concepts to a new product development team with proven experience in data-driven decision making.

• Clear passion for topics of technology products and an ability to identify possibilities to innovate in our product space

• Ability to be self-directed and to proactively anticipate problems and seek opportunities.

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment.

• Proficient at breaking down work for iterative and incremental delivery.

• Expert at stakeholder management and transparent communication

Notes:

The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities. May be required to perform other related duties as assigned. Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this job.