Product Manager

Agile Leadership

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life. Today, we're part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of whats important to them. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long-term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.

Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. Its part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.

Job Description Summary

Collaborate with key stakeholders and senior management to define and establish the digital product vision and roadmap for a digital product of focus. Drive the strategic and customer-centric focus in collaboration with Product Owners to clearly convey a vision to help delivery teams understand the roadmap and how their collective work enables value-based outcomes.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction to delivery teams (product owners, scrum master, UX designers, developers, testers) through building a strong and positive culture that puts user experience and satisfaction at the forefront.
• Ensure products supported by delivery teams optimize the ROI in support of strategic business objectives.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships across the organization and with other key delivery leaders to synchronize business value delivery that develops over time to a larger scale than the single delivery team.
• Develop an awareness of available market-based and customer-inspired insights that inform the products vision and comprehensive strategy planning.
• Provide vision and serve as a champion of customer perspectives to the Agile team in the form of clearly written epics, themes and user stories each with clear acceptance criteria in collaboration with the team. Help the team make business trade-offs between near term and longer-term product goals. Provide leadership to make the hard calls on scope and competing priorities while realistically manage stakeholder demands.
• Ensure the product roadmap and its backlog are aligning to current strategy, in collaboration with the team.
• Collaborate proactively in ceremonies with UI / UX team, product scrum team, and other product owners to maintain the product roadmap, business outcomes, and goals.
• Provide direction to POs as they lead regular backlog refinement workshops to help estimate relative feature value and update delivery forecasts to aid prioritization, minimize oversubscription of delivery teams and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Ensure the product of focus aligns with company strategy and broader product strategies through regular communication with customers, stakeholders and product management. Coordinate with the POs and Scrum Masters to facilitate short feedback loops between delivery teams and stakeholders through frequent deliveries and sharing of lessons learned.
• Contribute to scaled agile practices and coordinate with other PdMs and POs as needed to promote cross-team alignment around product roadmaps and dependencies.
• Lead product release planning with technical and business stakeholders and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities.
• Participate in system demos at the end of the iteration and provide story / feature acceptance per the pre-agreed Definition of Done criteria.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Working Conditions

Compensation

The salary for this position generally ranges between $120,000 - $140,000 annually / per hour. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan / Individual Performance and is at the Companys discretion.

What We Offer

For eligible employees, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support both the personal and financial well-being of our employees.

Compensation Benefits

Benefits Package

Health and Work / Life Balance Benefits