Product Manager - Premium Finance - remote

AFCO Direct•McDonald, PA

2d•Remote

About The Position

The Product Manager - Premium Finance role involves partnering with business stakeholders to refine the strategic change and technology roadmap supporting business goals and vision. This role collaborates with Premium Finance, Technology, and other support partners to maximize value delivery. It requires strategic and tactical skills to ensure effective, holistic solutions are delivered to market. The Product Manager is responsible for the intent of the assigned backlog, acting as a customer proxy, and working closely with Agile teams and the business unit to identify improvements, refine features, and partner with technical leads/scrum teams to ensure solutions address priorities while maintaining technical integrity and overseeing tactical execution. This role also serves as a thought leader in developing complex change and technology projects to market.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Certified SAFe Agilist (or equivalent)

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.