Digital Product Manager

Aspida Financial Services LLC•Durham, NC

35d•Hybrid

About The Position

In this role, you’ll shape and deliver the experiences and desired outcomes of our digital products and experiences. You will employ human-centered product management practices to articulate and prioritize the features and experiences that will build upon the success of our platform. Articulating your user needs and formulating prioritized roadmaps, you will work closely with the Development teams to implement features that support the end to end buying and servicing process—with the Aspida user experience always at the forefront. In preparation, and once up and running, you'll also ensure we have available metrics to monitor and validate the desired outcome of our products. The perfect candidate for this role is a highly experienced product manager who's passionate about user centered product management and will help shape the future of our industry. This role is required to be onsite at our Durham office 3 days a week.

Requirements

6+ years of experience as a Digital Product Manager at an insurance company or similar industry, experience with annuity products preferred.
Ability to synthesize complex internal needs across the company while considering both customer value and future growth.
An aptitude and willingness to understand the annuity industry.
Experience using Agile/Scrum/Sprint methodology including sprint planning and execution, as well as a strong understanding of software development management tools.
Ability to take informed action and a track record of leading new initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
Team player and excellent communication skills.
Comfortable and adaptable to change and new technologies.

Responsibilities

Define and own the digital product roadmap and go to market execution for your assigned product.
Optimizing and enable the collaboration between stakeholders across multiple departments including operations, actuarial, distribution, strategy, compliance, technology, finance, data.
Conduct user and stakeholder research to inform product feature sets.
Create and maintain a strong product, experience, and outcome vision for your product.
Support clearly defined prioritization frameworks and capabilities.
Ongoing product management and backlog refinement.
Assist with the development of marketing and training material for the digital products to support end users.
Deeply understand our end user’s workflows and buying experience to inform new opportunities to improve their experience.
Manage external vendor relationships.
Research emerging market trends and products.
Improve speed to market through build, buy or partnership opportunities.
Define clear outcomes that measure customer satisfaction and business impact with the ability to analyze them and utilize them in decision making processes.
Own roadmap prioritization to balance speed to market and new digital platform features with new product implementation.