Director, Technology Product Managment

The Technical Product Director is responsible for collaborating with business stakeholders on priorities and requirements for new capabilities.  They will lead cross-product work intake process, coordinating from initial request through planning and budgeting stages, overseeing the cross-product epic grooming process to align on priorities and sequencing. He/she manages the successful outcomes of the Agile teams.

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

• This role is a hands-on player / coach position.

• Communicates regularly with key stakeholders, collaborates with stakeholders to create and maintain the capability backlog

• Owns intake process for new work affecting multiple product groups

• Maintains product area backlog of requests at the epic level and prioritizes cross-product initiatives

• Coordinates with stakeholders to ensure new requests proceed through intake to prioritization within SLA

• Interfaces with finance for budget & resourcing

• Elevates potential ‘backlog breaking’ requests or urgent prioritization concerns to senior leadership as needed

• Facilitates quarterly PI planning and budgeting

• Coordinates portfolio review meetings to approve impact to committed deliverables from new cross-product requests

• Communicates decisions, priorities, and other relevant cross product initiative information to appropriate stakeholders

• Travel 10%-15%

What are the requirements needed for this position? 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar

• 10+ years of progressive work experience

• 5+ years’ experience in a product management role

• 4+ years of experience working with technology platforms, integrations and APIs

• Experience in service repairs or manufacturing is desired

• Experience working as a program / project management role

• Experience using AI tools for business: Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, etc.

What other skills/experience would be helpful to have?

• Strong communication and leadership skills, particularly good communicating between business and technology teams

• Ability to coordinate and influence a wide variety of stakeholders across the enterprise in order to clear roadblocks

• Strong understanding of technology as well as business needs

• Enthusiasm for Agile development methodologies

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Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world’s leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.

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