Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Allstate is an insurance company that has been protecting families and their belongings for over 90 years. They are seeking a Principal Digital Product Manager to own the vision and roadmap for their Hosting Product Group, driving digital transformation and exceptional user experiences through a comprehensive set of cloud and mainframe products.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategic direction of your area of responsibility (~20 products across cloud, compute & storage, and mainframe) ensuring continuous alignment to the highest priority outcomes; including vision and strategy for suite of digital products, developing & managing a strategic roadmap
- Conduct market and user research to identify trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape. Connect emerging tech and market trends to influence business strategy and achieve value
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to inform architectural decisions, support solution design and determine the appropriate path forward. Drive delivery acceleration through reuse of capabilities and smarter, simpler ways to achieve outcomes on a consistent basis
- Drive alignment on strategic intent and related priorities across teams and areas of responsibilities. Influence digital product strategy and backlogs across product areas in support of strategic priorities
- Own over-arching intended outcome and ensure that product KPIs converge toward the ultimate intent across areas
- Communicate product progress and updates to internal stakeholders and external partners ensuring appropriate prioritization and coordination of the work
- Engage in strategic vendor management where necessary ensuring interactive partnership with both our external vendors and internal sourcing leaders
- Forecast ongoing total cost of ownership of your products, manage budgets including vendor contract management, hardware costs, labor costs, etc. ensuring operation effectiveness; develops strategies and adjust courses of action
- Grow & mature Digital Product Management practitioner skills with your peers and team to drive consistency on DPM product practices, ways of working, ceremonies, behaviors and increasing product mindset, as well as fostering the growth of individuals on your team
- Foster and evangelize Product Management community to recruit, attract, and develop world class talent. Create career opportunities and ensure mobility for key top talent, including succession plan for Lead DPMs
- Work across the enterprise, focusing in the technology organization, to drive product-centric thinking and optimization of our ways of working
Skills
- A minimum of 5 years of experience conducting product scoping, discovery, framing, and backlog ownership for digital products
- A minimum of 5 years' experience coaching and leading global teams
- Demonstrated experience applying Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) in a product delivery environment and using product management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Aha!, or similar to managing requirements, backlogs, roadmaps, and delivery outcomes
- Demonstrated understanding of software development lifecycles, human-centered design principles, UX/UI design practices, and digital marketing concepts, evidenced through delivery of digital products, features, campaigns, or customer experience improvements
- Proven ability to analyses and interpret quantitative and qualitative data, using insights, metrics, and customer feedback to inform product decisions, prioritization, and performance optimization
- 4-year bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience, degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, or a related field
- Experience managing or influencing product strategy for enterprise infrastructure platforms, including cloud, compute, storage, and hosting
- Strong understanding of public cloud platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and the operational capabilities required to support enterprise-scale adoption
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation practices utilizing technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, GitOps, or similar platforms
- Direct experience with Linux (RHEL), Windows, compute, storage, database, or mainframe platforms
Benefits
- Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
- Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.
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