Digital Product Manager (Container Workloads)

Allstate is a company dedicated to protecting families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. The Digital Product Manager for Container Workloads will define and oversee the lifecycle of products, focusing on strategic vision and product discovery to enhance the microservices ecosystem across multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and articulate a long-term strategy for simplifying our microservice ecosystems across multi-cloud Platform as a Service environments
• Define product vision, roadmap, priorities, and success measures
• Align this strategy with enterprise modernization, cloud transformation, and container engineering initiatives
• Drive the development of reference container workloads that exercise and validate our container based Platform as a Service hosting model ensuring experience consistency, runtime availability and operational reliability
• Influence the evolution of core dependencies such as application runtimes, container platforms, service mesh, networking, autoscaling, database, storage, observability, and release governance
• Identify and prioritize enhancements to support workload efficiency, resiliency, security, and scalability
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure container workloads meet user build and run requirements
• Author, refine, and prioritize stories and epics focused on delivering incremental value to platform consumers
• Define and track KPIs such as deployment speed, usage, adoption, and experience consistency
• Conduct discovery, backlog refinement, and agile ceremonies to support continuous value delivery
• Partner with cloud architects, platform consultants, security leaders, infrastructure engineering, and application teams to ensure container workload capabilities align with technical and business requirements
• Work with developer experience teams to enhance documentation, onboarding, and self-service workflows
• Facilitate alignment across multiple stakeholders in engineering, business, and operations
• Understand distributed systems and microservices hosting patterns to inform product decisions
• Incorporate best practices in application development, cloud-native architecture, multi-hybrid cloud environments, and platform governance
• Translate technical challenges and opportunities into meaningful product roadmaps
• Communicate product vision, roadmap progress, risks, and adoption plans to leadership and partner teams
• Serve as a thought leader for hosting modernization and cloud-native engineering practices
• Influence cross-team decision-making and drive alignment through strong communication and negotiation skills

Requirements:

• 5 or more years of product management experience
• Experience with internal developer platforms or Platform as a Service application hosting
• Recent hands-on experience writing code
• Fundamentals of microservices
• Application Hosting
• Business Case Analyses
• Communication
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Product Management
• Product Roadmap
• Product Roadmapping
• Product Strategies
• Product Vision
• Software Coding
• Systems Thinking