Product Manager III

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This opportunity is in the Information Technology department.

As the company's largest department, I.T. is responsible for supporting both ongoing operations and our next innovative project. Information technology is prioritized, allowing us to partner with colleagues to securely enable and support new capabilities every day. Utilizing a diverse set of technologies, like Guidewire, Salesforce, Java, C#/.NET, Mule, and Azure, the available career opportunities continue to grow rapidly. Our department consists of agile teams where individual contributions are recognized, and career advancement is nurtured.

Role Description:

As a Product Manager III, you will own the strategy, vision, and roadmap for a product or product line that delivers meaningful value to our business and customers. You will serve as the bridge between business and technology, ensuring solutions align with Safety National's strategic objectives while meeting evolving market and stakeholder needs.

In this role, you will define and communicate a compelling product vision, identify opportunities and risks through thoughtful analysis, and translate business objectives into clear, prioritized features and epics. You will collaborate closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, business architecture, and senior leaders to drive alignment across Agile Release Trains (ARTs), proactively initiating discovery efforts and influencing direction using data and customer insights.

You will create and maintain a strategic product roadmap that balances short-term delivery with long-term outcomes. By managing portfolio epics, value-add initiatives, and dependencies, you will ensure stakeholders remain aligned and informed. Your leadership will extend to backlog management, ensuring that prioritized work is clearly defined, strategically aligned, and ready for execution.

With a strong customer focus, you will monitor product performance, define and analyze key performance indicators, and iterate based on feedback, experimentation, and market trends. You will proactively seek input from users and business partners, test hypotheses, and use both leading and lagging indicators to inform next steps.

As a trusted leader and coach, you will foster cross-functional collaboration, guide teams through complex problem-solving, and serve as a key point of contact for stakeholders and executive leadership. From ideation through launch and continuous improvement, you will manage the product lifecycle, mitigate risks, and champion innovation within the product organization.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field (preferred).

Required Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of experience in Product Management or a related field
• Excellent written, analytical, problem-solving, and verbal communication skills
• Technical aptitude to understand complex systems and translate customer needs into value-driven solutions
• Strong systems thinking, negotiation skills, and a user-centric mindset with solid business acumen
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple priorities, and collaborate effectively within a team
• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
• This position allows for a hybrid work schedule which includes a minimum of 3 days per week in our St. Louis Corporate Office, located at 1832 Schuetz Rd. Saint Louis, MO. All employees are required to submit work from home requests and follow our Work From Home policy, which will be provided to all candidates selected to interview.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certification or formal education in Product Management (e.g., SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (PO/PM), Certified Product Manager (CPM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), or similar)
• Working knowledge of product and software development life cycles, including agile, waterfall, or iterative methodologies; SAFe experience preferred

Experience in Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance

Protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and technology assets against unauthorized disclosure, destruction and/or alteration, in accordance with Safety National policies, standards, and procedures.

Safety National is a leading specialty insurance and reinsurance provider. Our culture is built upon relationships, which allow us to demonstrate our expertise gained through our rich 80-year history. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tokio Marine, Inc., we appreciate the benefits and support provided by our affiliation with one of the top 10 insurance companies in the world.

Total Rewards That Put Employees First

In our vision to be First with Co-Workers, compensation that includes base salary, holiday bonus, and incentive awards is only a small portion of the comprehensive total rewards package we offer. Our total rewards approach recognizes and rewards the time, talents, efforts, and results of our valued employees. Highlights of our exceptional benefits include generous health, dental, and vision coverage, health savings accounts, a 401(k)-retirement savings match and an annual profit sharing contribution. We proudly offer family forming benefits for adoption, fertility, and surrogacy, generous paid time off and paid holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave, a hybrid work environment, and company-paid life insurance and disability. To support employees in their career journeys, we provide professional growth and development opportunities in addition to employee recognition and well-being programs. Apply today to learn more.

Safety National is committed to fair, transparent pay and we strive to provide competitive, market-based compensation. In our vision to be First with Co-Workers, compensation is only one piece of the comprehensive total rewards package we offer. The target base salary range for this position is $111,650.00 to $144,000. Compensation for the successful candidate will consider the candidate's particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, experience and geographic location.

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