Technical Product Management Consultant

Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value and recognize the benefits derived when people with different backgrounds and experiences work together to achieve business results. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered, and enabled to perform at their best.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading the development and maintenance of the complex product roadmap, ensuring strong alignment with business goals and customer needs. May drive market research and competitive analysis to identify significant opportunities and threats.

• Responsible for leading collaboration with stakeholders to gather and prioritize product requirements. Translates highly complex business needs into detailed technical specifications and user stories.

• May be responsible for defining and driving product strategy by aligning business objectives with long-term technical innovation, ensuring scalability and future-proofing product decisions.

• May oversee the evaluation of emerging technologies, architecture decisions, and integration approaches to ensure optimized performance, security, and system compatibility.

• Leads and oversees the entire product development lifecycle from concept to launch, ensuring timely delivery of key features and enhancements by engineering teams.

• Serves as a liaison for all product-related inquiries. Communicates product vision, strategy, and progress to all stakeholders across the organization.

• Advocates for the end-user by driving the development of intuitive, user-friendly, and high-quality products. Leads usability testing, user experience research, and gathers actionable user feedback to inform strategic product decisions.

• Leverages expert technical knowledge to influence and make strategic decisions regarding product architecture, design, and implementation. Partners with engineering teams to resolve complex technical challenges.

• Tracks, analyzes, and interprets product performance metrics to identify areas for improvement. Implements data-driven strategies to enhance product performance and optimize user engagement.

• Fosters a collaborative environment by working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful and cohesive product launches.

• Leads enterprise practices or transformation at scale, driving organizational change initiatives.

• Responsible for performance and coaching of staff and may have a participatory role in decisions regarding talent selection, development, and performance management for direct reports.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.

Experience: Generally, a minimum of 14 years of related experience that includes experience in Technical Product Management. Certification in Lean methodologies preferred, with a strong understanding of product development and development framework -- ideally Extreme Programming. User-Centered Design certification preferred.

Scope of Job/Qualifications: Performs product management for highly complex products and may have product management duties for multiple teams. Instills Product Mindset with a balanced team approach by breaking down complex problems into simple solutions focused on important customer needs. Coaches, mentors, or pairs with other Product Managers. Exhibits expert analytical skills with expertise in gathering and analyzing data to drive problem solving and decision-making. May own product strategy and execution, ensuring alignment between customer needs, business goals, and technology capabilities. Makes recommendations for best practices and introduces new techniques/tools to the product management team. Exhibits expert business knowledge and the ability to identify and define business needs including an understanding of the organization's business and technology operations. Demonstrates strong customer focus by being responsive, consultative, collaborative and accurate in work approach. Oversees Product Management practice, and/or supervises Product Managers with the ability to provide back-up on specific products as needed. Recognized as the company expert.

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We offer competitive benefits packages for full-time and part-time employees*. Full-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision coverage, wellness plans, parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement. Full-time and eligible part-time employees also enjoy Paid Time Off and paid holidays, a 401(k) plan with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, and commuter benefits.

Compensation varies by role, level, and location and is influenced by skills, experience, and business needs. Your recruiter will provide details about benefits and specific compensation ranges during the hiring process. Learn more at http://www.gaig.com/careers.

*Excludes seasonal employees and interns.