Product Management (Technical) Lead Consultant

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 Product Manager Lead Consultant is responsible for contributing towards defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of one or more products in Allstate's growing product portfolio. The Product Manager Lead Consultant 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. The Product Manager Lead Consultant is responsible for working closely with key stakeholders and partners, ensuring the successful definition and execution of go-to market and communications strategies for their products.

Key Responsibilities

• Authors, tests, and accepts stories.

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

• Contribute towards creating the product strategy for one or more products in our growing digital product portfolio.

• Use customer feedback, detailed market analysis, and data gathering to provide recommendations on decisions about product strategy.

• Provide input on decomposing complex problems into smaller manageable tasks by creating and prioritizing a backlog for the Product Team.

• Manages the product backlog, contributes towards creating an effective vision and provide timely stakeholder feedback on development iterations.

• Represent the “voice of the customer”; invest significant time with current and potential customers to understand their needs and habits.

• Engage in discovery/test & learn activities to quickly validate assumptions and product direction.

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

Experience

• 5 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Education & Experience (in lieu)

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

Skills

Agile, Business Case Analyses, Customer-Focused, Product Backlog Management, Product Direction, Product Management, Product Roadmapping, Product Strategies, Product Vision, Systems Thinking, Waterfall Model

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 110,000.00 - 181,025.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

 

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.

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Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.

 

When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.