Lead Digital Product Manager (Sr. Manager)

Allstate is a company focused on protecting families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. As a Lead Digital Product Manager, you will drive multiple products across a platform, ensuring they meet customer needs and align with strategic goals while coaching a team of Digital Product Managers.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the strategic direction of your product family (multiple products) 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
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and launch new digital products
• Create appropriate forum for roadmap alignment and planning in support of strategic initiatives across product portfolio and product management team
• Work with the Digital Product teams to optimize team ceremonies and practices to drive maturity including write & groom stories, prioritize, and manage the backlog
• Define product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisions
• 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
• Gather and analyze customer feedback to continually improve the product
• Drive maturity in our product management practices, influence engineering, platform consultant and architecture leadership within your product domain and across ACE
• Grow & mature Digital Product Management practitioner skills with your team by modeling the skills & behaviors we expect within our DPM trade as well as fostering the growth of individuals on your team

Requirements:

• 10+ years of product management experience, 2+ year's coaching and leading teams
• Experience with Agile methodologies and product management tooling
• Technical Skills: Understanding of development processes, human centered design, UX/UI design, and digital marketing
• Analytical Skills: Proficiency in data analysis and interpretation to inform product decisions
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead and inspire cross-functional teams
• Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and creativity in finding solutions
• Experience in networking, identity management solutions, infrastructure as code, automation, data analytics, or cloud solutions preferred
• Product experience in End User, Network, Compute, or Platform as a Service preferred