Digital Product Manager Expert (Technical)- (Hybrid)

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. For more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs.

Your role in the team: 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.
• Experience with database infrastructure and service automation.
• Engage in discovery/test & learn activities to quickly validate assumptions and product direction.
• Be recognised 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.
• Use customer feedback, detailed market analysis, and data gathering to make decisions about product strategy.
• Coach and mentor members of the team as well as members of the cross-functional development organisation 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.
• Decompose complex problems into smaller manageable tasks by creating and prioritising a backlog for the Product Team.

Essential Skills:

• All candidates must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
• A minimum of 4+ years’ experience in a digital product manager/owner or technical leadership role working in an Agile software development environment (Scrum, Kanban or XP).
• Experience in communicating complex and innovative concepts to product development teams with proven experience in data-driven decision making.
• Experience working across Microsoft office suite/ PowerPoint / Agility.
• Experience at breaking down work for iterative and incremental delivery.

Desirable Skills:

• Working knowledge of API development.
• SQL / Mongo and Oracle Database.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure and Database.
• 4-year bachelor’s degree.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This job does not have supervisory duties.

What we offer:

As Digital DNA’s Workplace of the Year 2020 & 2022 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking. Allstate invests heavily in your development, as an employee you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team. We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organisation. We encourage a better work-life balance and you’ll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.

Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities:

Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability. We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit. Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.