Senior Associate Product Manager

Responsibilities

The Senior Associate Product Manager is responsible for supporting Product Managers as part of a product management team; however, they are not the accountable Product Manager for a product. They develop knowledge, experience, and skills by working side-by-side with experienced product managers while contributing to the success of complex products and product families.

The successful candidate will

• Lead product discovery sessions, helping teams understand business problems, customer needs, and outcome hypotheses.
• Support cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and Business stakeholders in ideating and executing experiments.
• Gather, analyze, and communicate product insights, customer feedback, operational metrics, and measurable outcomes to stakeholders.
• Maintain and communicate product health and operational metrics, ensuring progress against product goals and objectives is visible and measurable.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Agile teams to identify and resolve dependencies, impediments, and delivery risks.
• Act as or support the role of Product Owner by contributing to backlog management, story refinement, acceptance criteria definition, prioritization discussions, and sprint ceremonies.
• Communicate product releases, roadmap updates, experiment outcomes, and key product decisions to stakeholders and partners.
• Work closely with business leaders, finance partners, and stakeholders to support change readiness, product adoption, and business outcomes.
• Demonstrate strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills while building relationships across product disciplines.
• Leverage data, metrics, and analytical thinking to support data-driven decision-making and identify opportunities for product improvement.
• Continuously build expertise across all phases of the product lifecycle while contributing to an effective and mature product management practice.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
• 6–10 years of overall professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or a related discipline within a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience with product lifecycle management and roadmap planning.
• Experience working with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Experience managing multiple workloads and competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage data and insights to drive business and product decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical and quantitative aptitude with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, derive insights, and support evidence-based decision-making.
• Excellent mathematical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Experience creating reports, dashboards, KPIs, and product health metrics.
• Experience driving prioritization discussions and balancing customer, business, and technical needs.
• Understanding of Cloud concepts.
• Working experience in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments.
• Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, and Miro.
• Exposure to end users, business stakeholders, and technology teams.
• Understanding of Distribution in Life/Group Insurance would be a plus.

Influencing & Negotiation

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
• 6–10 years of overall professional experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, or a related discipline within a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience with product lifecycle management and roadmap planning.
• Experience working with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Experience managing multiple workloads and competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage data and insights to drive business and product decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical and quantitative aptitude with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, derive insights, and support evidence-based decision-making.
• Excellent mathematical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Experience creating reports, dashboards, KPIs, and product health metrics.
• Experience driving prioritization discussions and balancing customer, business, and technical needs.
• Understanding of Cloud concepts.
• Working experience in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments.
• Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, and Miro.
• Exposure to end users, business stakeholders, and technology teams.
• Understanding of Distribution in Life/Group Insurance would be a plus.

Key Skills

Product Discovery & Experimentation

Product Lifecycle Management

Product Ownership

Agile Delivery

Stakeholder Management

Data Analysis & Insights

Quantitative Problem Solving

Business Acumen

Prioritization & Decision Making

Communication & Facilitation

Influencing & Negotiation