Senior Manager - Digital Products

6620 Mooney St, Dublin, OH 43017, USA ● 800 S Washington St, Van Wert, OH 45891, USA Req 1021 Thursday, October 31, 2024 At Central, we believe technology enables great experiences for our customers, agents, and employees. We also believe great experiences are key to our success and that's why we're building a world class digital product team to help us leverage technology to drive continued growth. As a Senior Manager- Digital Products , you'll lead a team of Product Owners that create and deliver solutions with outcomes that improve our Core Policy Personal Lines, Core Policy Commercial Lines, Billing & Finance, and Claims Products. Your team will bridge Product Management and Engineering by breaking long-term strategy down into an executable roadmap. Working with your Engineering and Design counterparts, you’ll ensure we maximize our investment in product development by ensuring your team clearly articulates requirements, breaks down work, and orchestrates the product team's activities. How You Will Make an Impact Market Discovery Research : Ensure team fully understands the value of discovery work. Conduct continuous discovery and share actionable findings. Assess team gaps in discovery and create training plans. Internal opportunities : Coach team on articulating prioritization process to stakeholders. Market research : Help team assimilate market research findings. Legal and regulatory : Facilitate relationship with legal and compliance teams. Strategic Planning Market selection : Help team develop and communicate market selection point of view. Routes to market : Help team understand chosen routes to market. Build, buy, partner : Help team identify options and prepare business cases. Value analysis : Coach teams on business case reviews. Viability analysis : Coach teams on creating a point of view on viability. Product strategy and prioritization : Walk team through prioritization process. Definition and Viability Planning : Review initiatives and suggest improvements. Effort sizing : Broker sizing conversations. Sprint planning : Address repeat planning challenges. Validation : Ensure team tests assumptions early and often. Build and Deliver Handoff : Develop collaborative relationships with engineering. Tracking : Track outcomes and release progress. Release : Develop rollout plans for features. Sense and Respond Coordination : Maintain collaborative mindset with Design and Development counterparts. Performance : Track product outcomes and financial performance. What You Will Bring Master’s degree in business management or related field and 4 years of direct Product Management experience including 1 year management experience Or Bachelor’s degree in business management or related field and 4 years of direct Product Management experience including 1 year management experience Or 8 years of direct Product Management experience including 1 year management experience Ability to lead, mentor, and develop a team of product owners. Expert research skills to conduct primary and secondary market research. Expert ability to gather and synthesize large quantities of information. Expert strategic thinking skills to develop roadmaps. Basic financial accounting skills. Clear written communications skills. Excellent public speaking skills. Strong knowledge and experience with the software development lifecycle. Strong experience working in an agile environment. Work Authorization Central will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Equal Opportunity Employer It is the policy of Central that all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, job classification and assignment, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment and all other terms and conditions of employment shall be maintained in a manner which will not discriminate against any person because of race, color, age, sex, national origin, ancestry, religion, marital status, military status, or disability. J-18808-Ljbffr