Digital Product Manager (Hybrid)

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Your role in the team

We are seeking a Digital Product Manager (Senior Consultant) to support the Use My Protection customer journey in our Auto Claims Integration team which helps our customers to have accurate data and insights when interacting with application in the Use My Protection Journey. The Digital Product Manager will be responsible for contributing towards defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of one or more products in Allstate’s growing product portfolio. The Digital Product Manager assists with establishing 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. They will also work closely with key stakeholders and partners, ensuring the successful definition and execution of go-to market and communications strategies for their products.

Key responsibilities
 

• Manages the product backlog, contributes towards creating an effective vision and provide timely stakeholder feedback on development iterations.
• Provide input on decomposing complex problems into smaller manageable tasks by creating and prioritizing a backlog for the Product Team.
• Engage in discovery/test & learn activities to quickly validate assumptions and product direction.
• Represent the “voice of the customer”; invest significant time with current and potential customers to understand their needs and habits.
• Define and manage metrics to measure the success of your efforts and to inform the overall product strategy.
• Authors, tests, and accepts stories.
• Use customer feedback, detailed market analysis, and data gathering to provide recommendations on decisions about product strategy.
• Contribute towards creating the product strategy for one or more products in our growing digital product portfolio.

 

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 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 in a technology development environment. 
• Experience at breaking down work for iterative and incremental delivery.  

Desirable Skills

• Experience in Insurance sector 
• Experience in application integration
• Experience in Java

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Job Posting End Date:  Wednesday 20th March 2024 [11:59pm]

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.  

You’ll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we’ve proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. 

Good Hands. Greater Together.

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.

Posting End Date:

10 March 2025