Assurant

Director, Technology Product Managment

Assurant$122K — $204K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
  • 10+ years of progressive work experience
  • 5+ years in product management
  • 4+ years with technology platforms, integrations, and APIs
  • Experience in service repairs or manufacturing is a plus
  • Project management experience
  • Familiarity with AI business tools such as Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a hands-on player/coach for Agile teams
  • Regularly communicate and collaborate with stakeholders to maintain the capability backlog
  • Own and manage the intake process for cross-product work
  • Prioritize and maintain the epic-level product area backlog
  • Ensure new requests are processed timely through intake to prioritization
  • Interface with finance for budgeting and resource allocation
  • Facilitate quarterly PI planning and portfolio review meetings

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility
  • Collaborative team environment
  • Opportunity to influence cross-product initiatives
  • Engagement with advanced AI tools
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Dynamic Agile working environment
Full Job Description
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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Pay Range:
$122,400.00 - $204,400.00

Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.

If there is no posting end date listed then this is a pipeline requisition, and we will continue to collect applications on an ongoing basis.

About Assurant

The Warranty Group is the world’s premier provider of extended service plans and related benefits, with operations in 33 countries and 1800 employees. We have $5 billion in assets with almost $2 billion in revenues (2010). Our wholly-owned subsidiary, Virginia Surety Company, Inc., is rated "A-" Excellent by AM Best Company, as is our UK based company, London General Insurance. By providing underwriting, claims administration and marketing expertise, The Warranty Group is a global single-source solution for manufacturers, distributors and retailers of consumer goods including autos, homes, consumer electronics, medical devices, furniture and appliances as well as financial institutions. We partner with our clients to drive revenue through customer acquisition and retention, while providing financial modeling and regulatory services. The Warranty Group is a unit of Onex Corporation (TSX:OCX), one of Canada's largest publicly-held companies with assets of $40 billion, revenues of $35 billion, and 212,000 employees worldwide(2011).

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Joining Assurant means becoming part of a team that is committed to supporting your career growth and innovation in the insurance sector. As a global provider of risk management solutions, Assurant is where professional aspirations meet opportunities for real impact.

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Size
15,600 employees
Market Cap
$6.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$441.8 million
Founded
1892
5 Year Trend
+6.2%
Revenue
$10 billion
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