Technical Product Manager - Remote, United States - Allstate Insurance Company

Description

The world isn't standing still, and neither is Allstate. We're moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers' evolving needs. That's why now is an exciting time to join our team. You'll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.

You'll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

Everything we do at Allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to protect people from life's uncertainties so they can realize their hopes and dreams. For more than 89 years we've thrived by staying a step ahead of whatever's coming next – to give customers peace of mind no matter what changes they face. We acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws. We help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowerment. We've been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protection.

We are the Good Hands. We don't follow the trends. We set them.

Job Summary:

This technical Digital Product Manager will be responsible for defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of multiple container management and services products in our strategic Platform as a Service portfolio. Digital Product Managers are responsible for managing strategic product vision, product discovery, roadmaps, and backlog to maximize value provided by their product. Successful Product Managers help to identify assumptions and validate those assumptions using product discovery techniques. The Container Management & Services Digital Product Manager will be responsible for building key relationships and working closely with stakeholders and partners, ensuring delivery of measurable outcomes focused on container platform management, integration and usability driving operational efficiencies and improving user experience.

Digital Product Managers are also responsible for actively participating in our learning culture; including coaching and mentoring product teams, stakeholders and peers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create, drive and execute product strategy for multiple products in our growing Kubernetes container management and services portfolio.

• Craft and execute a comprehensive product roadmap, prioritizing features and enhancements.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define what needs to be true to meet intended outcomes, ensuring a deep understanding of platform and Digital product team operational needs.

• Navigate complex container technologies, leveraging insights to inform product decisions.

• Decompose complex problems into smaller manageable tasks by creating and prioritizing tasks.

• Develop and execute both an internal and external communications strategy for marketing your products.

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

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

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

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years relevant new product or technology development experience working in a fast-paced environment.

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

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

• Knowledgeable with API development and comfortable with API testing and basic SQL database queries.

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

• Ability to communicate complex and innovative concepts to a new product development team.

• Proficiency in agile ceremonies and methodologies i.e. iterations, technical story writing, point systems and refinements.

• Effectively lead and collaborate across boundaries with technical and non-technical resources to implement decisions and/or initiatives.

• Excellent written/verbal communication and facilitation skills for communicating at all levels (employees and leaders); including strong presentation skills.

• Strong interpersonal, analytical, time management and organizational skills.

• Comfort with ambiguity and able to independently drive resolution of issues and challenges.

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

Desirable Qualifications:

• Strong understanding and experience of cloud services across multiple venues.

• Basic understanding of Kubernetes container platform concepts and comfortable with command line execution.

• Solid understanding on the concepts of infrastructure-as-code and immutable infrastructure.

• Actual experience working in any project that successfully leverages continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Notes:

Compensation offered for this role is $105,500.00-$178,250.00 per year and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.

Good Hands. Greater Together. SM

As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that's just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you'll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy. For a full description of Allstate's benefits, visit

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