Sr. Product Manager

Job Overview
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Position Overview
We're searching for a Sr. Product Manager to join our commercial lines quoting team to execute on the strategy and roadmap across the multiple front-end experiences within the quoting suite of products. In this role, you'll be responsible for breaking down and sequencing the roadmap items ("the what") into workable action items for the team ("the how"), and ensuring alignment across the teams and individual stakeholders ("the why").
To keep us headed in the right direction, we're looking for people who understand winning is a team sport, who value and seek to learn from our team's diverse experiences and backgrounds, who welcome a challenge and take risks in the pursuit of creating better outcomes for our customers, and who can, at any given time, step back to laugh and have some fun. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical abilities and the capacity to translate customer pain into customer value, by deeply understanding users' needs and how to best solve their problems -- while balancing priority and engineering effort to deliver the most value back to our customers.
What You'll Do

• Lead the development and execution of product strategies for commercial lines quoting
• Deliver on the vision and roadmap for commercial lines quoting
• Identify and define problem statements, leading to research that deepens understanding or validates decisions
• Conduct market research and competitive benchmarking to pinpoint customer needs, product gaps, and market opportunities
• Prioritize and manage the roadmap and release plan for commercial lines quoting
• Define product requirements and specifications for commercial lines quoting
• Translate findings into recommendations for feature areas or product enhancements
• Create business cases to support feature or product enhancements or new product concepts
• Present business cases to Product leadership to gather feedback and buy-in
• Ensure feature delivery creates a connected customer journey and a phased approach to value realization
• Lead cross-functional teams through development cycles
• Track progress towards milestones, identify roadblocks, and recommend solutions
• Execute user research and testing to comprehend needs and pain points
• Utilize various techniques to explore user needs, gaining deeper insight into the customer
• Communicate user needs cross-functionally to align with feature and product prioritization
• Synthesize market and user data from multiple sources
• Create compelling stories and present to Product leadership to validate hypotheses or decisions
• Communicate feature-area and product values to go-to-market teams
• Define the product positioning and market differentiation for commercial lines quoting
• Partner cross-functionally to develop new features, feature areas, or products
• Collaborate with Software Development, User Experience, Customer Experience, Go-To-Market, Customers, and Product Leadership?

We're Excited to Learn More About You
Your experience may include:

• 5+ years of experience in product management
• Comprehensive knowledge of product management methodologies, industry best practices, and business strategy
• Highly skilled in data analysis, with the ability to derive actionable insight from complex datasets
• Experience with writing user stories and defining requirements for both UI and API solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience in storytelling and articulating customer value.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, effectively managing priorities and dependencies across teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (MBA a plus)

You may have other skills or credentials, including:

• A background working for enterprise SaaS organizations
• Experience working with data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker)
• API connectivity between internal & external systems
• Understanding of Postman, Swagger - other API tooling & documentation

Location

• • Candidate will need to reside in North America, working arrangement will be hybrid/remote

We know that talent comes from all backgrounds and experience levels. We encourage military members and their spouses as well as candidates without a degree or a background in tech to apply!
When You Join Team Applied, You Can Expect:
A culture that values who you are and recognizes that you aren't just an employee; you are a teammate, and you matter. We thrive on the benefits of our different experiences and celebrate the uniqueness our teammates bring to work with them every day.
We flex our time together, collaborating remotely and in-person to empower our teams to work in the ways that work best for them.
A comprehensive benefits and compensation package that centers our teammates and helps them to bring their best to work every day:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Holiday and Vacation Time
• Health & Wellness Days
• A Bonus Day for Your Birthday

Learn more about the people behind our products at https://www1.appliedsystems.com/en-us/about-us/jobs/
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