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. 

Job Description

The Architecture Compute, and Engineering organization provides a transformative platform ecosystem with a comprehensive set of capabilities that empowers end users and digital product teams to innovate seamlessly and drive growth for Allstate through the Consumer Connected Cloud mission. This ecosystem aims to provide an absolute frictionless experience for our user community.
As a Lead Digital Product Manager in the ACE organization, you'll be contributing towards defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of one or more products ensuring they meet the needs of the customers and align with the company’s strategic goals. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, technical understanding, and business acumen.
A career as a Lead Digital Product Manager is both challenging and rewarding, offering the opportunity to innovate and shape the future of digital products. Ideal candidates are strategic thinkers with strong technical and communication skills, capable of driving product success in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities
• Product Strategy and Vision: Develop and communicate the vision and strategy for digital product/s.
• Market Research: Conduct market and user research to identify trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape.
• Product Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and launch new digital products.
• Roadmap Management: Create and continuously maintain a product roadmap that aligns with business goals and customer needs.
• Ongoing Management: Work with the Digital Product team to write & groom stories, prioritize, and manage the backlog.
• Performance Monitoring: Definite product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisions.
• Stakeholder Communication: Communicate product progress and updates to internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Budget Management: Manage product budgets and resources efficiently.
• Customer Feedback: Gather and analyze customer feedback to continually improve the product.

Key Responsibilities

• Weigh alternatives and considers service and business implications of decisions

• Monitor budgets and operational effectiveness; develop strategies for adjusted courses of action

• Make build, buy and/or partner decisions to advance product strategy and maximize KPIs

• Partner with stakeholders inside and outside of the enterprise, and present to field teams and at events as the "product expert" for your defined product area.

• Coach and mentor members of the team as well as members of the cross-functional development organization

• Lead development and recommendation of new techniques and processes to support innovative solutions

• Create, drive and execute holistic product strategy (i.e. not limited to software development) for 2 or more products in our growing digital product portfolio.

• Define and manage KPIs to measure the success of your efforts and to inform the overall product strategy.

• Engage in discovery/test & learn activities to quickly validate concepts as appropriate for backlog investments.

• Invest significant time with current and potential customers to understand their needs & habits and to elicit their feedback to potential product concepts and/or released product iterations.

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

Experience

• 10 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job has supervisory duties.

Education & Experience (in lieu)

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Primary Skills

Influencing Others, Product Management, Product Strategies, Strategic Management, Systems Thinking

Shift Time

Recruiter Info

Yateesh B G

ybgaa@allstate.com

About Allstate

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. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organization’s business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design, global operations and integration, and training and transition.

Learn more about Allstate India here.