Product Manager/Sr. Product Manager (Employee Benefits Solutions)

Applied Systems is transforming the insurance industry and is seeking a Product Manager/Sr. Product Manager for their Benefits Solutions Team. The role involves defining and executing product strategies, conducting market research, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions for employee benefits.

Responsibilities:

• Prioritize and manage the product backlog, translating requirements into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria using Agile methodologies while partnering with internal stakeholders and contributing to the success of our quarterly planning process
• Lead the roadmap and release planning for a product or multiple related products, balancing strategic goals and operational execution
• Contribute to product roadmap planning activities to ensure alignment with market demands and strategic objectives through market research to gather insights to drive data-driven product development decisions
• Ensures the development team can be continually fed by planning, monitoring, and analyzing the requirements throughout the roadmap and release planning process
• Collaborate with Software Development, User Experience, Customer Experience, Go-To-Market, Customers, Product Leadership, and Cross Functional Leadership to determine a clear understanding of business problems that can be solved by technological solutions
• Owns establishing exploratory research topics that influence the long-term strategy for a product and spearheads market research and competitive benchmarking to pinpoint customer needs, product gaps, and market opportunities
• Lead the creation and presentation of strategic business cases to product leadership, cross-functional leadership, and executives, aligning proposals with business goals and customer needs
• Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to develop a financially and technically feasible roadmap, including scale, security, and performance requirements, with a formal change management process
• Drive product activation to ensure new products or features/releases are ready for on-time, in scope delivery, including launch, training, support, marketing, messaging, sales, and other related departments
• Own the Adoption dashboard for platform solutions – including defining measures, setting goals, reporting on progress, capturing voice of the customer, and recommending tactics to improve KPI’s
• Define detailed design specifications for software projects, leveraging your technical understanding of full-stack applications
• Informal mentor to junior product team members, sharing expertise and promoting continuous learning
• As a product manager, you must understand a range of stakeholders, including other product teams within Applied, servicing, sales, and technology teams at enterprise customers, third-party partners, as well as a strong understanding of the Insurtech ecosystem and our customers needs

Requirements:

• 5 - 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, or Business Analysis within Agile, focusing on delivering successful data-driven products
• Experience in the Employee Benefits domain
• Proven track record in developing and implementing data-driven products and solutions
• Experience with APIs
• Strong Agile/Scrum discipline, adept at leading cross-functional teams
• Familiarity with data analytics, data visualization tools, reporting tools, and tech stack; experience with Looker is beneficial
• Excellent communication skills, driving the implementation of value-added features
• Technical proficiency across full-stack applications
• Ability to define detailed design specifications and collaborate effectively with technical teams
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in the areas of Computer Engineering, Information Science, Computer Science, or related disciplines
• Accounting experience within Employee Benefits
• Insurance Carrier experience
• Jira/Confluence experience or similar project management tools