[Hiring] Product Manager - Premium Finance @AFCO Direct

Role Description

Partner with business stakeholders to balance demand and helps to refine the strategic change and technology roadmap supporting the business goals and vision. Partner with a cross section of Premium Finance, Technology, and other support partners to maximize value within delivery of the strategic change and technology roadmap. Requires strategic and tactical level skills to ensure an effective, holistic solution is delivered to market. Responsible for the intent of the assigned backlog, while serving as customer proxy, working closely with Agile teams and the business unit to identify areas for improvement, refine features, partner with technical leads/scrum teams to ensure the solution effectively addresses priorities - while maintaining technical integrity and overseeing tactical execution of efforts. Serve as a thought leader in developing complex change and technology projects to market.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• May assume broad responsibility for components of a complex initiative, provide the direction or vision for a group of scrum teams related to their business solution, and/or be called upon to solve highly complex problems.
• Coordinate with Scrum Master(s) to drive program increment (PI) planning, sprint planning, and other Agile ceremonies ensuring alignment to larger strategic change and technology road map priorities and vision.
• Align with Business Leaders to clearly articulate business strategy and prioritization to the change and technology teams.
• Collaborate and engage key stakeholders, including business partners, technology, and other support areas in the planning and execution of projects.
• Author and maintain the team's backlog serving as a subject matter expert on features, user stories, and capabilities.
• Assist in obtaining partner alignment and approvals including legal, compliance, finance, marketing, and others, as needed.
• Work with process design, user acceptance testing (UAT)/training, marketing/communications, demand intake, and other partners to support the identification, prioritization, and management of efforts.
• Serve as key resource to technology and other support teams to answer questions, provide clarification, and triage issues in support of the development and change lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Eight years of banking, financial services or other relevant experience
• Five years of change management experience
• Five years of leading and or participating in cross functional teams, preferably with a strong background in technology changes
• Experience with premium finance or insurance businesses
• Previous experience working in an Agile environment
• Experience defining and delivering concurrent large-scale business initiatives to execute on a strategic change and technology roadmap, including stakeholder management and backlog prioritization/refinement
• Proven ability to translate strategic plans into tactical daily actions for execution
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Comfortable with ambiguity, leading working autonomously and making independent decisions in a fast paced, results driven environment
• Experience in roles requiring strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills as well as the creation of succinct executive-level presentations to explain and sell plans/vision

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified SAFe Agilist (or equivalent)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment
• Tax-preferred savings accounts
• 401k plan
• No less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during the first year of employment
• 10 sick days (also prorated)
• Paid holidays
• Potential eligibility for defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan