Product Manager - Premium Finance

Role Description

Partner with business stakeholders to balance demand and help refine the strategic change and technology roadmap supporting the business goals and vision. Partner with a cross-section of Premium Finance, Technology, and other support partners to maximize value within delivery of the strategic change and technology roadmap. Requires strategic and tactical level skills to ensure an effective, holistic solution is delivered to market. Responsible for the intent of the assigned backlog, while serving as customer proxy, working closely with Agile teams and the business unit to identify areas for improvement, refine features, partner with technical leads/scrum teams to ensure the solution effectively addresses priorities - while maintaining technical integrity and overseeing tactical execution of efforts. Serve as a thought leader in developing complex change and technology projects to market.

May assume broad responsibility for components of a complex initiative, provide the direction or vision for a group of scrum teams related to their business solution, and/or be called upon to solve highly complex problems.

Coordinate with Scrum Master(s) to drive program increment (PI) planning, sprint planning, and other Agile ceremonies ensuring alignment to larger strategic change and technology road map priorities and vision.

Align with Business Leaders to clearly articulate business strategy and prioritization to the change and technology teams.

Collaborate and engage key stakeholders, including business partners, technology, and other support areas in the planning and execution of projects.

Author and maintain the team's backlog serving as a subject matter expert on features, user stories, and capabilities.

Assist in obtaining partner alignment and approvals including legal, compliance, finance, marketing, and others, as needed.

Work with process design, user acceptance testing (UAT)/training, marketing/communications, demand intake, and other partners to support the identification, prioritization, and management of efforts.

Serve as key resource to technology and other support teams to answer questions, provide clarification, and triage issues in support of the development and change lifecycle.

Qualifications

Eight years of banking, financial services or other relevant experience

Five years of change management experience

Five years of leading and or participating in cross-functional teams, preferably with a strong background in technology changes

Experience with premium finance or insurance businesses

Previous experience working in an Agile environment

Experience defining and delivering concurrent large-scale business initiatives to execute on a strategic change and technology roadmap, including stakeholder management and backlog prioritization/refinement

Proven ability to translate strategic plans into tactical daily actions for execution

Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams without formal authority

Comfortable with ambiguity, leading working autonomously and making independent decisions in a fast-paced, results-driven environment

Experience in roles requiring strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills as well as the creation of succinct executive-level presentations to explain and sell plans/vision

Requirements

Certified SAFe Agilist (or equivalent)

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment

Tax-preferred savings accounts and a 401k plan

No less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during the first year of employment

10 sick days (also prorated) and paid holidays

Eligibility for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan