Product Manager 2 (Hybrid)

About the position

We're seeking a Product Manager 2 to join our Benefits & Protection team, where you'll have the opportunity to partner with various collaborators to drive initiatives and results of our strategic vision and processes within the External Partner Integrations product family. Collaborate with agile team members from IT and other product managers to successfully implement a variety of technology solutions for customers and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Show confidence in understanding of the product and contribute to the overall future vision and strategy.
• Assist in representing a balance of product direction and the customer/stakeholder needs.
• Tell the story of the problems that need to be solved and opportunities.
• Focus on describing value proposition, value stream, and capability outcomes.
• Work with team to validate how solutions build towards those outcomes and meet customer needs.
• Help with leading discovery efforts and leverage lean experiments to maximize learnings at a minimal expense.
• Build strong partnerships with stakeholders and business partners to represent their needs.
• Garner their support and engage them proactively to overcome barriers for the team(s).
• Assist in making decisions to enable the team to deliver quickly.
• Be comfortable not having all of the answers.
• Make small bets and embrace experimentation.
• Responsible for validating the story meets acceptance criteria and will achieve the desired customer or business outcome.
• Challenge status quo, encourage innovation, be open-minded and approachable.
• Collaborate well with all partners.
• Gather feedback from customers on delivered work and share with the team.
• Utilize data, customer insights and industry trends to drive decision making.

Requirements

• 4+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, military experience, or education.
• 2+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced product environment.
• Experience resolving solutions to complicated problems using good judgment and positive relationships to assess risk, and lay-out your argument in a well-structured, data-informed narrative.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to influence and negotiate with partners at all levels of the company while advising on complex expectations.
• Proven understanding of techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery and the ability to coach that in others.
• Understands various approaches and tools for research, synthesis, ideation, and testing in a dynamic dual track discovery and delivery loop.

Nice-to-haves

• Product Management experience and experience with third party integrations.
• Experience creating clarity from highly complex and ambiguous situations.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) for salaried employees.
• Pension eligibility.