At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

The Architecture Compute, and Engineering organization provides a transformative platform ecosystem with a comprehensive set of capabilities that empowers end users and digital product teams to innovate seamlessly and drive growth for Allstate through the Consumer Connected Cloud mission. This ecosystem aims to provide an absolute frictionless experience for our user community.  

As a Lead Digital Product Manager in the ACE organization, you'll be a player/coach who drives multiple products across a platform, contributing towards defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of a suite of products ensuring they meet the needs of the customers and align with the company’s strategic goals. You will lead and coach a team of Digital Product Managers to advance in the trade and to advance product strategy. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, technical understanding, and business acumen.  


A career as a Digital Product Manager is both challenging and rewarding, offering the opportunity to innovate and shape the future of digital products. Ideal candidates are strategic thinkers with strong technical and communication skills, capable of driving product success in a fast-paced environment. 

Key responsibilities 

Product Portfolio Leadership: Manage the strategic direction of your product family (multiple products) ensuring continuous alignment to the highest priority outcomes; including vision and strategy for suite of digital products, developing & managing a strategic roadmap   

Market Research: Conduct market and user research to identify trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape   

Product Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and launch new digital products.   

Roadmap Management and Alignment: Create appropriate forum for roadmap alignment and planning in support of strategic initiatives across product portfolio and product management team   

Ongoing Management: Work with the Digital Product teams to optimize team ceremonies and practices to drive maturity including write & groom stories, prioritize, and manage the backlog.   

Performance Monitoring: Define product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisions.   

Stakeholder Management: Communicate product progress and updates to internal stakeholders and external partners ensuring appropriate prioritization and coordination of the work   

Vendor Management: Engage in strategic vendor management where necessary ensuring interactive partnership with both our external vendors and internal sourcing leaders   

Budget Management: Forecast ongoing total cost of ownership of your products, manage budgets including vendor contract management, hardware costs, labor costs, etc. ensuring operation effectiveness; develops strategies and adjust courses of action   

Customer Feedback: Gather and analyze customer feedback to continually improve the product.   

Impact and Influence: Drive maturity in our product management practices, influence engineering, platform consultant and architecture leadership within your product domain and across ACE   

Grow Talent: Grow & mature Digital Product Management practitioner skills with your team by modeling the skills & behaviors we expect within our DPM trade as well as fostering the growth of individuals on your team 

  

  

Essential Skills 

  

All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy. 

A minimum of 5 years of product management experience   and overall exp of 15+ yrs

A minimum of 2 years of experience coaching and leading cross functional teams.    

Proven experience with Agile methodologies and product management tooling   

Proven understanding of development processes, human centered design, UX/UI design, and digital marketing   

Proficiency in data analysis and interpretation to inform product decisions.   

Strong problem-solving skills and creativity in finding solutions.   

  

  

Desirable Skills 

  

Product experience in End User, Network, Compute, or Platform as a Service preferred.   

Experience in networking, identity management solutions, infrastructure as code, automation, data analytics, or cloud solutions.   

  

 

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job does not have supervisory duties.

 

  

  

  

Primary Skills

Digital Product Development, Digital Product Management, Digital Products, Digital Product Strategy, Influencing Others, Product Development, Product Management, Product Strategies, Strategic Management, Systems Thinking

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Recruiter Info

Shilpa Amit Vaish

ShilpaAmit.Vaish@allstate.com

About Allstate

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.  

You’ll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we’ve proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. 

Good Hands. Greater Together.

The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organization’s business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design, global operations and integration, and training and transition.

Learn more about Allstate India here.