Senior Product Manager - Data Ingestion

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 Team:

Looking to join a strong team with a vision to build the future of transportation? At Arity, achieving our goals requires a product manager eager to work in the trenches with the development team to solve tough problems and produce great results. Just as importantly, they’ll need to collaborate regularly with our engineers, designers, customers, and stakeholders to understand what must be done and why
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We’re looking for a dynamic new teammate who’s comfortable scoping out the use cases of a new API one moment, providing design critique the next, and finishing up by building out a roadmap around a new feature - or has the willingness to learn these skills. Above all, an Arity product manager should possess insatiable curiosity and attention to detail.
Want to join our team? Let’s chat!

The Role:

Within the Core Services segment, the Data Ingestion products are the entry to our data platform and support the inflow of data into normalized formats both for real-time external products and internal datasets that power Arity’s products. The Senior Product Manager for this scrum team manages the product vision, discovery, roadmaps, and backlog to maximize the customer value provided by their products.

In this role, you will need to understand user management systems and backend system & data pipeline design extensively. The Senior PM in this role will work closely with key stakeholders and will need assertiveness, strong prioritization skills, and a transparent communication style to balance incoming needs from a variety of sources. Successful Senior Product Managers will help to identify assumptions, then validate those assumptions with product discovery techniques and data driven analysis.

Senior Product Managers in this role are also responsible for actively participating in our learning culture, including mentoring and working with other members of the product team to drive improvement in our processes.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute toward and drive the product strategy for our Data Ingestion product portfolio.
• Use stakeholder, partner, and customer feedback and data gathering & analysis techniques to make decisions about product strategy.
• Define and manage key performance metrics (KPIs) to measure the success of your products and inform ongoing product strategy.
• Know your customer; invest significant time speaking with your current and potential customers to understand their needs & habits.
• Engage in discovery/test & learn activities to quickly validate assumptions and product direction.
• Decompose complex problems with your scrum team, then split identified solutions into smaller, manageable tasks by creating and prioritizing a backlog & roadmap.
• Manage the product backlog, create an effective vision and provide clear & timely stakeholder feedback on development iterations.
• Ensure the successful execution of development standards to ensure tight feedback loops and clear product definition.
• Collaborate and coach members of the product team as well as across the development organization on conducting idea generation, consumer research, test design and execution, measurement, and product implementation and release.

Required Qualifications:

• Clear passion for working with vast amounts of mobility data to deliver innovative solutions and meaningful insights.
• 7-10 years of relevant experience developing and launching products in a fast-paced environment.
• Entrepreneurial with a strong inclination towards taking initiative and action.
• Ability to proactively anticipate problems, recognize potential solutions to those problems, and decide with the team on the best opportunity with which to proceed.
• Experience operating in a metrics-driven environment where you have the data and accountability to determine the best course of action in meeting product goals.
• Ability to communicate complex and innovative concepts to your development team, including engineers and data analytics members.
• Understanding of and experience working in a complex, Agile development environment
• Demonstrated ability to communicate across multiple levels of leadership.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A background in the telematics industry and working for SaaS organizations.