Sr Digital Product Manager

About this role

Job Family Agile Leadership About Us  

  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.  

Who We Are  

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 what’s important to them.  

We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.  

What We Do  

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. It’s part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide. * For more information, visit transamerica.com .   

Job Description Summary Collaborate with key stakeholders and senior/executive management to define and establish the digital product vision and roadmap. 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 employee 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 on a larger scale than the single delivery team. • Research and evaluate market-based and customer-inspired insights that inform the product's 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 long term product goals. Provide leadership to make the hard calls on scope and competing priorities while realistically manage stakeholder demands. • Establish and prioritize the product roadmap and its backlog 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 product 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. • Engage in 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. • Recruit, select, orientate, train, develop and coach team members. • May have direct reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, or equivalent work in a related field • Eight years of experience with digital experience and/or relevant industries such as insurance, retirement, or financial services • Five years of experience as a product manager, product owner, business analyst, or a related role • Second level Product Owner / Product Manager certification (e.g. CSPOII, SAFe POPM) • Expert knowledge of agile delivery methodologies • Experience with JIRA, or similar agile product management toolset • Experience establishing and executing a product vision and roadmap across several teams/domains • In-depth experience with agile methodologies, technical unde

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