As a Lead Digital Product Manager in the ACE organization, you will drive multiple products across a platform, contributing to defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of a suite of products that meet customer needs and align with Allstate’s strategic goals. You will lead and coach a team of Digital Product Managers to advance product strategy, driving innovation and growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the strategic direction of a product family, ensuring alignment to highest priority outcomes, including vision and strategy for a suite of digital products.
- 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 forums for roadmap alignment and planning in support of strategic initiatives across the product portfolio.
- Optimize team ceremonies and practices, such as story grooming, prioritization, and backlog management.
- Define product performance metrics, monitor 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.
- Engage in strategic vendor management, partnering with external vendors and internal sourcing leaders.
- Forecast and manage total cost of ownership, including vendor contracts, hardware costs, and labor costs, to ensure operational effectiveness.
- Gather and analyze customer feedback to continually improve the product.
- Drive maturity in product management practices and influence engineering, platform consultancy, and architecture leadership within the product domain and across ACE.
- Grow and mature Digital Product Management practitioner skills within the team by modeling expected skills and behaviors.
Essential Criteria
- Legal right to work in the UK; Allstate does not sponsor.
- At least 5+ years of experience as a Digital Product Manager.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience coaching and mentoring multiple product teams.
- Experience in End User, Network, Compute, or Platform as a Service preferred.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and product management tooling.
- Understanding of development processes, human‑centered design, UX/UI design, and digital marketing.
- Ability to effectively communicate complex and innovative product concepts to cross‑functional development teams.
- Proven data‑driven decision‑making to influence product direction and prioritization.
Desirable Experience
- Experience working in the insurance industry or with enterprise‑level software solutions.
Skills
- Cross‑functional teamwork.
- External partner management.
- Influencing others.
- Internal stakeholder engagement.
- Product management and strategies.
- Roadmapping.
- Strategic direction and management.
- Systems thinking.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- This position has supervisory duties.
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