Be Here. Be Great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.
At Great American, we value diversity and recognize the benefits gained when people from different cultures, backgrounds and experiences work collaboratively to achieve business results. We are intentionally focused on fostering an inclusive culture and know valuing diversity is an essential leadership quality. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered and enabled to perform at their best.
P&C IT Services provides professional services to help our business units and corporate functions use technology to create, manage, and optimize information and business processes. IT Services can include a wide range of activities such as: software development, data management, Cloud services, IT security, network security, technical support, establishing and overseeing access rights, procuring and maintaining equipment or software, managing the infrastructure, and defining security procedures, The overall goal of IT Services is to provide technology solutions that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and give our company a competitive advantage over our competitors.
Our Great American Software Lab (G.A.S. Lab) is looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to join our team and work a hybrid schedule out of the Cincinnati office. We're looking for someone who loves solving problems, isn't afraid of new challenges, and passionate and product and CND practices.
The G.A.S. Lab empowers highly collaborative teams to quickly deliver quality products that provide clear business value. We do this, currently, through the advocacy and practice of a Product Mindset, User-Centered Design, Extreme Programming, and Cloud Native Development.
Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities
Individual Contributor:
- Will actively work as part of a cross-functional product team on discovering, designing, and building valuable solutions
- Will lead and facilitate product team ceremonies and discovery activities
- May provide product model coaching and enablement to other IT teams outside of the G.A.S. Lab
- May help lead, facilitate, or participate in discovery activities for other teams across the IT organization
Leadership:
- Embodies and Drives IT's guiding principles: Know Their Business, Do What We Say, Run to the Fire, Learn to Change, Stand Together, Performance Matters, and Do Better Every Day
- Ensures collaboration with customer stakeholders, product/project managers, and technical teams to deeply understand customer objectives, capabilities, and priorities.
- Partner closely with Product Leadership on enterprise practices and transformation at scale.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Strong communication skills: verbal, written, and listening to various levels of individual contributors and leaders around the organization
- Ability to support multiple products and domains
- Prior experience working in a product model is preferred
- Prior experience coaching/mentoring others preferred
- Prior experience in insurance industry preferred
- Prior XP/CND experience preferred
Other Job RequirementsEducation: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.Field of Study: Information Technology, Computer Science, Business or a related discipline.Experience: Generally, a minimum of 6 years of related experience. Experience with XP and CND practices a plus.
Business Unit:
Property & Casualty IT Services
Benefits:
Compensation varies by role, position level, and location. Individual pay is influenced by skills, education, training, certifications, experience, and the role's scope and complexity, along with business needs.
We offer a competitive Total Rewards package, including medical, dental, and vision plans starting on day one, PTO, paid holidays, commuter benefits, an employee stock purchase plan, education reimbursement, paid parental leave/adoption assistance, and a 401(k) plan with company match. These benefits are available to eligible full-time and part-time employees.
Your recruiter can provide more details about our total rewards and specific compensation ranges during the hiring process.
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What We Do
Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the operations of Great American Insurance Group are engaged primarily in property and casualty insurance, focusing on specialty commercial products for businesses. We have more than 30 specialty property and casualty insurance businesses, and in 2021, approximately 50% of our gross written premium in our property and casualty operations was generated by business units with a Top 10 market ranking.
Great American Insurance Company has received an "A" (Excellent) or higher rating from the AM Best Company for more than 110 years (most recent rating evaluation of "A+" (Superior) affirmed December 3, 2021). The members of Great American Insurance Group are subsidiaries of American Financial Group, Inc. (AFG), also based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
