Sr Digital Product Manager

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:

• World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors,
• Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and
• 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.

About the Role

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.

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 managing 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 expectations 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 understanding of products, and up-to-date on industry standards and best practices
• Solid understanding of the product lifecycle
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proactive and highly organized, with precise attention to detail
• Ability to build strong relationships with business analysts, UI/UX team, leadership, senior management, and internal and external stakeholders
• Proficient computer skills, Microsoft Office Suite; working knowledge of software development

Preferred Qualifications

• Track record of continued and recent education in agile, including training, conferences, user groups, and self-study
• Knowledge of approaches discussed in the agile space: XP, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, Crystal, FDD, etc.
• Experience as a collaborative leader
• Experience working in a SAFe Agile environment, including participation in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, refinement sessions, PI Planning, and release trains.

Schedule

This is a hybrid position requiring three days (Tuesday-Thursday) in office per week in one of our hub locations (Philadelphia or Denver).

Pay

The salary for this position generally ranges between $135,000–$150,000 annually. 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 of 17.5% based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.

Benefits

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

Compensation Benefits

• Competitive Pay
• Bonus for Eligible Employees
• Pension Plan
• 401k Match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Insurance
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Career Training & Development Opportunities

Health and Work/Life Balance Benefits

• Paid Time Off starting at 160 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.
• Ten (10) paid holidays per year (typically mirroring the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) holidays).
• Be Well Company holistic wellness program, which includes Wellness Coaching and Reward Dollars
• Parental Leave – fifteen (15) days of paid parental leave per calendar year to eligible employees with at least one year of service at the time of birth, placement of an adopted child, or placement of a foster care child.
• Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Back-Up Care Program
• PTO for Volunteer Hours
• Employee Matching Gifts Program
• Employee Resource Groups
• Inclusion and Diversity Programs
• Employee Recognition Program
• Referral Bonus Programs