Product Manager III

Safety National•Maryland Heights, MO

18d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Product Manager III, you will own the strategy, vision, and roadmap for a product or product line that delivers meaningful value to our business and customers. You will serve as the bridge between business and technology, ensuring solutions align with Safety National’s strategic objectives while meeting evolving market and stakeholder needs. In this role, you will define and communicate a compelling product vision, identify opportunities and risks through thoughtful analysis, and translate business objectives into clear, prioritized features and epics. You will collaborate closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, business architecture, and senior leaders to drive alignment across Agile Release Trains (ARTs), proactively initiating discovery efforts and influencing direction using data and customer insights. You will create and maintain a strategic product roadmap that balances short-term delivery with long-term outcomes. By managing portfolio epics, value-add initiatives, and dependencies, you will ensure stakeholders remain aligned and informed. Your leadership will extend to backlog management, ensuring that prioritized work is clearly defined, strategically aligned, and ready for execution. With a strong customer focus, you will monitor product performance, define and analyze key performance indicators, and iterate based on feedback, experimentation, and market trends. You will proactively seek input from users and business partners, test hypotheses, and use both leading and lagging indicators to inform next steps. As a trusted leader and coach, you will foster cross-functional collaboration, guide teams through complex problem-solving, and serve as a key point of contact for stakeholders and executive leadership. From ideation through launch and continuous improvement, you will manage the product lifecycle, mitigate risks, and champion innovation within the product organization.

Requirements

5 or more years of experience in Product Management or a related field
Minimum 2 years’ experience working with Azure and cloud-based product capabilities
Experience with AI integration with products and services from a product leadership perspective
Excellent written, analytical, problem-solving, and verbal communication skills
Technical aptitude to understand complex systems and translate customer needs into value-driven solutions
Strong systems thinking, negotiation skills, and a user-centric mindset with solid business acumen
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple priorities, and collaborate effectively within a team
Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
This position allows for a hybrid work schedule which includes a minimum of 3 days per week in our St. Louis Corporate Office, located at 1832 Schuetz Rd. Saint Louis, MO. All employees are required to submit work from home requests and follow our Work From Home policy, which will be provided to all candidates selected to interview.

Nice To Haves

Certification or formal education in Product Management (e.g., SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (PO/PM), Certified Product Manager (CPM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), or similar)
Working knowledge of product and software development life cycles, including agile, waterfall, or iterative methodologies; SAFe experience preferred
Experience in Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance

Responsibilities

Own the strategy, vision, and roadmap for a product or product line.
Serve as the bridge between business and technology.
Define and communicate a compelling product vision.
Identify opportunities and risks through thoughtful analysis.
Translate business objectives into clear, prioritized features and epics.
Collaborate closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, business architecture, and senior leaders.
Drive alignment across Agile Release Trains (ARTs).
Proactively initiate discovery efforts and influencing direction using data and customer insights.
Create and maintain a strategic product roadmap.
Manage portfolio epics, value-add initiatives, and dependencies.
Ensure stakeholders remain aligned and informed.
Extend leadership to backlog management.
Monitor product performance.
Define and analyze key performance indicators.
Iterate based on feedback, experimentation, and market trends.
Proactively seek input from users and business partners.
Test hypotheses.
Use both leading and lagging indicators to inform next steps.
Foster cross-functional collaboration.
Guide teams through complex problem-solving.
Serve as a key point of contact for stakeholders and executive leadership.
Manage the product lifecycle.
Mitigate risks.
Champion innovation within the product organization.