Product Manager II

Safety National•Saint Louis, MO

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Product Manager II, you will help shape the strategy, vision, roadmap, and feature definition for products that deliver meaningful value to Safety National and our stakeholders. You’ll serve as a bridge between business and technology, partnering with Product Owners, engineering teams, business owners, and other stakeholders to translate customer needs and business objectives into clear product priorities and solutions. You’ll develop and communicate product vision and strategy, maintain product roadmaps, evaluate opportunities, prioritize features, and help teams focus on delivering the greatest value. In this role, you’ll take ownership throughout the product lifecycle, from ideation and planning through delivery and continuous improvement. You’ll work collaboratively to prepare features for PI Planning, manage priorities and dependencies, monitor product performance, and use customer feedback and data to guide future enhancements. You’ll build strong relationships across teams, create effective feedback loops, identify and proactively manage risks, and communicate product progress and strategy at the appropriate level for audiences ranging from delivery teams to senior stakeholders. Your customer-focused mindset will be critical as you seek feedback, develop personas and visualizations, evaluate product performance, and use insights to improve outcomes. You’ll also define KPIs and product objectives, analyze trends, identify opportunities for process improvement, and partner with infrastructure, compliance, data strategy, and Information Security stakeholders to address non-functional requirements such as security, performance, and compliance. If you enjoy combining strategic thinking, collaboration, technology, and customer insight to turn ideas into valuable products, this role offers an opportunity to make an impact across the organization.

Requirements

3 or more years of experience in Product Management or a related field
Excellent written, analytical, problem-solving, and verbal communication skills
Technical skills to understand how complex systems work and explain customer needs to teams to achieve value
Systems-thinking skills with the ability to identify and remedy issues or roadblocks within products or processes
Strong negotiation skills and the ability to navigate tradeoff conversations with stakeholders to position products for success
User-centric mindset and business acumen with the ability to think like a customer and understand business needs
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities
Ability to work effectively in a team environment
Motivated, self-directed, results-oriented, and customer-focused
Working knowledge of product and software development life cycles, including agile, waterfall, and iterative methodologies
Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future

Nice To Haves

A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field is preferred.
Certification or education in Product Management, such as SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (PO/PM), Certified Product Manager (CPM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), or similar
Property & Casualty Insurance experience
SAFe experience

Responsibilities

Shape the strategy, vision, roadmap, and feature definition for products.
Serve as a bridge between business and technology.
Partner with Product Owners, engineering teams, business owners, and other stakeholders.
Translate customer needs and business objectives into clear product priorities and solutions.
Develop and communicate product vision and strategy.
Maintain product roadmaps.
Evaluate opportunities and prioritize features.
Take ownership throughout the product lifecycle.
Prepare features for PI Planning.
Manage priorities and dependencies.
Monitor product performance.
Use customer feedback and data to guide future enhancements.
Build strong relationships across teams.
Create effective feedback loops.
Identify and proactively manage risks.
Communicate product progress and strategy.
Seek feedback, develop personas and visualizations, evaluate product performance, and use insights to improve outcomes.
Define KPIs and product objectives.
Analyze trends and identify opportunities for process improvement.
Partner with infrastructure, compliance, data strategy, and Information Security stakeholders to address non-functional requirements.