Product Manager; Hybrid

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At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness. Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years. Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2025 and certification as a Great Place to Work® in 2025 for the sixth consecutive year.

Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high‑performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, keep them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs.

The Product Manager is a product champion and pivotal leader accountable for business value and outcomes, building and evangelizing a product mindset, and driving end‑to‑end delivery of strategic imperatives across a moderately sized agile program. Employing strategic and execution mastery, this individual actively influences product strategy, crafts and communicates a compelling program vision, and shepherds development of actionable plans ensuring ongoing delivery of measurable value.

The Product Manager is the chief user advocate and proxy, leading engagement with internal and external customers to cultivate and ensure understanding of needs and experiences and integrate these as a cornerstone in the shaping and evolution of products. An inspirational and empowering leader, this individual applies comprehensive product knowledge, leadership skills, and interpersonal aptitude in managing, coaching, and developing a team of high‑performing Product Owners.

As a trusted business partner, the Product Manager collaborates with product leadership, program leaders, end users, customers, stakeholders, and teams in ensuring strategic continuity in prioritization and refinement of content, measuring product and financial outcomes, ensuring balanced product support within agile teams, demonstrating impactful business value, and enabling meaningful program‑level continuous improvement.

• Interprets and synthesizes product strategy into a clear, inspirational, and actionable vision providing a foundation for development and delivery across an agile program. Translates vision and development plans to a value‑based, iterative roadmap communicating business and customer outcomes on a relevant timeline.
• Owns end‑to‑end value delivery and outcomes at the program level, collaborating with product leaders, IT leaders, business leaders, stakeholders, and teams to ensure alignment between strategic goals and program development plans.
• Acts as chief customer advocate and proxy, leading engagement with internal and external customers to understand needs, construct and optimize feedback mechanisms, and incorporate outcomes in product and program vision.
• Conducts and participates in market and competitive research efforts, introducing applicable findings in development of product initiatives.
• Identifies and directs collection of relevant data, guiding and performing refinement and analysis for informed decision making. Employs an economic view, assessing cost, benefit, and business value in determination of product and program priorities.
• Leads development and enrichment of a product mindset, ensuring understanding and alignment with product strategy across an agile program and the organization. Promotes innovation and guides navigation of ambiguity and embracing change. Leads a team of Product Owners within an agile program by providing clear direction, fostering collaboration, empowering decision‑making, and removing obstacles to ensure success.
• Owns, manages, and regularly prioritizes the program level/feature backlog. Directs refinement of features in collaboration with Product Owners, IT leads, end users, customers, stakeholders, and partners.
• Aligns and directs demonstration of business value for product…