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The Product Manager for IT Platforms leads the product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for the platforms and infrastructure that support our business applications.
This role is responsible for driving initiatives that strengthen our cloud infrastructure and improve our security, development, and monitoring toolsets.
This role partners closely with product management peers and stakeholders to translate the need for secure, reliable and maintainable applications into prioritized platform and infrastructure initiatives with clear value, scope, and outcomes, ensuring teams remain focused on the highest-value work. While primarily focused on future roadmap and pipeline planning (≈80%), the role also supports in-flight delivery by clarifying requirements, refining scope, and maintaining stakeholder alignment and communication.
Key Accountabilities/Deliverables:
- Build deep partnerships with business leaders to identify pain points, opportunities, and measurable outcomes
- Maintain an 18-month roadmap and a 6+ month ready backlog aligned to business priorities and capacity
- Lead end-to-end business case development, ensuring clear value (ROI), defined scope, and approved prioritization
- Balance feature delivery with technical investment (reliability, scalability, modernization)
- Own requirements clarity, backlog prioritization, and stakeholder alignment across all initiatives
- Provide clear, consistent progress and roadmap reporting, enabling informed stakeholder decisions
- Define and track success metrics for delivered outcomes
- Drive prioritization trade-offs based on value, risk, and capacity
- Enforce intake, prioritization, and funding governance processes to ensure alignment to portfolio priorities
Technical Knowledge and Understanding:
- Strong written communication skills for technical and executive audiences (C-suite)
- Practical experience with Agile delivery (Scrum, Kanban)
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, layered security and development/monitoring tooling
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated habit of continuously teaching themselves new skills, with clear examples of recently applied learning
- Deep understanding of Azure and AWS clouds, development tools and pipelines, security preferred
Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Business Administration related discipline (or equivalent practical experience)
- 3+ years in product management within Agile environments
- 3+ years driving cloud and/or security initiatives
- Experience with Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence)
- Experience using AI-enabled tools (e.g., Copilot) to improve productivity
- Experience working in a regulated industry (insurance, financial services, healthcare) preferred
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over work authorization sponsorship now or in the future for this position.
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At Core Specialty, you will receive a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development and advancement. We offer medical, dental, vision, and life insurances; short and long-term disability; a Company-match of 100% of a 6% contribution 401(k) plan; an Employee Assistance Plan; Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, Health Reimbursement Account, and a wellness program
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of product management experience in Agile environments
- 3+ years driving cloud and/or security initiatives
- Experience with the Atlassian Suite, including Jira and Confluence
- Experience using AI-enabled productivity tools such as Copilot
- Strong written communication skills for technical and executive audiences
- Practical experience with Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, layered security, and development and monitoring tooling
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams
- Experience working in a regulated industry such as insurance, financial services, or healthcare
- Authorization to work for any employer in the United States without current or future sponsorship
What We Do
Core Specialty, through its subsidiary insurers, offers a diversified range of property, casualty, and marine insurance products for small to mid-sized businesses. We have the capital to take on risk, the underwriting talent in place, decisive leadership team, infrastructure, and a proven track record of making things happen – fast! When you’re ready to solve your toughest insurance needs, we’re ready to get it done for you. We free customers up to focus on their business by taking the load of complicated specialty insurance off their hands. We break down the walls of bureaucracy to provide optimal underwriting solutions for brokers. We’re ready, equipped, and motivated to get the job done, efficiently and professionally, by empowering experts with what they need to move quickly on behalf of customers and their brokers. Our specialty focus is the essential part of our identity. It is at our core
