Product Manager- Partner Platform

GEICO is looking for an accomplished, customer-obsessed, results-oriented, and technically strong Product Manager to join our Geico Insurance Agency (GIA) team in the Sales Product Management Organization to support the Partner Integrations that enable Geico to offer products from our third-party partners. 

We are looking for candidates who have sound Agile product management fundamentals, a proven track record of building and working with teams that deliver full-stack, Enterprise grade technical platforms and products, from the APIs, Microservices, and SDKs used to integrate with 3rd parties, to the the front-end experiences used by millions of customers and thousands of Agents to shop for their products. A clear record of building strong relationships across teams and functions including internal business partners and other Product teams will be necessary. Successful candidates will also have customer empathy, strong execution skills, and a track record of building and leading multiple high-performing sprint teams.  

This position is preferably a hybrid role, however, exceptional remote candidates will be considered.  

Hybrid locations include: Washington, DC, Fredericksburg, VA, San Jose/San Francisco, CA, and Seattle, WA  

In this position, you will be a single-threaded owner who works with Technology, Design, and Business teams to operate and modernize GEICO’s products that enable our customers to find the coverage they need from our eco-system of partner providers.  

In this role, you will be accountable for:  

• Leading multiple high-performing sprint teams that balance a portfolio of products and capabilities focused on partner integrations  

• Increasing sales of partner products in by ensuring we have the right selection and optimizing the shopping customer experience  

• Building technical products that are scalable and adaptive to changing partner needs and market conditions so that we can offer more products, in more placements, to more prospects  

• Promoting and identifying effective ways of working and managing talent to drive sustainable results  

• Inspiring all levels of the company with a compelling product vision that is backed in data and focused on driving continuous value for our customers, partners, and our business  

• Rolling up your sleeves. You will at times need to lean in and support new teams and new ways of working with internal and external partners  

• Reporting on success, risks, and missteps, using data, relationships and context to move the ball forward  

• Influencing organizational change through proper scoping, process improvement, and positive team dynamics.  

• Diving into the details, writing requirements and leading cross-functional teams to deliver scalable solutions and business results through APIs, services, partner integrations and other modern architectural solutions  

The ideal candidate is excellent at:  

• Representing Product at all levels of the organization, building partnerships, and crafting an inspirational product vision that drives value for GEICO customers, associates and partners  

• Assessing and decomposing a big market opportunity into a product/technology vision and then turning that into milestones focused on delivering iterative value. Artifacts include Vision, Strategy, Roadmap, Experimentation Plans, Go To Market plans, and ability to define clear Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks with clear Acceptance Criteria and Test Plans  

• Building and leading multiple high-performing teams that are cross-functional and understand how to work in a matrixed org with dependencies and competing goals  

• Partnering with Technology leaders to influence end-state architecture and drive secure, resilient, performant, and scalable product solutions that solve material customer and business problems  

• Leveraging data/running experiments/ensuring instrumentation to drive roadmap decisions, celebrate wins, and communicate impact to stakeholders  

• Demonstrating a strong bias for action, partnership, and influence ability. This includes driving prioritization and feature requirement to capabilities teams as well as driving trade-off discussions and decision-making with technical experts and business stakeholders  

• Synthesizing business, market, and platform data to identify opportunities, size them, and turn insights into contributions to strategic Vision, roadmap, and requirements.  

• Creating and using compelling, informative artifacts to influence stakeholders and communicate progress to stakeholders (ex. Vision, Roadmaps, Features/Epics, Progress Updates, etc.)  

• Familiarity with Insurance products is a plus  

Basic Qualifications:  

• 5+ years of experience in product leadership positions with proven record of accomplishment  

• 5+ years in Agile product management  

• 5+ years of experience creating Consumer or Associate facing products  

• 4+ years managing all aspects of a product feature throughout its lifecycle from concept to delivery  

• 3+ years leading, mentoring, and coaching product manager  

• Bachelor’s Degree  

Preferred Qualifications:  

• High sense of accountability and strong problem-solving skills  

• Experience using quantitative and qualitative data to inform design decisions and drive change  

• Passion for coaching and mentorship  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills  

• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills to influence across the organization  

• Insurance industry experience preferable, not required  

• Agile certifications preferred (i.e., SAFe, Scrum Alliance, Scrum.Org, ICAgile)