Lead Product Manager, Finance & Reinsurance Systems

We're Looking for an experienced Lead Product Manager!

Security Benefit is a leader in the U.S. retirement market with more than $75 billion in assets under management. We offer opportunities to thrive, innovate, and make an impact. As part of our team, you’ll play a key role in driving the future of the U.S. retirement industry. Security Benefit is a PLACE where we promise to help our customers To and Through Retirement®.

We’re proud to have been recognized as one of the best in the business:

• Named to Ward’s 50 list of top-performing life-health insurance companies
• Recognized on list of Ingram’s Top 100 Private Companies in the Kansas City area in 2025

The Lead Product Manager, Finance & Reinsurance Systems is the senior-most contributor in the Product Management series supporting Security Benefit's Finance and Reinsurance domain. Unlike a Senior Product Manager, who owns the hands-on craft of product management for a single product area, this Lead Product Manager holds no product area or backlog of their own — they operate one level above execution, on the practice and portfolio across the Finance & Reinsurance domain.

Within the Finance & Reinsurance domain, the Lead PM shapes how product management is practiced across Finance systems, designs frameworks and approaches that Senior and Professional PMs execute, serves as the escalation point for what those PMs cannot resolve themselves, and carries formal people-development and hiring/promotion input for PMs in that domain.

Finance functional leaders (FP&A, Reporting, Treasury, Tax, Actuarial) and Reinsurance stakeholders are engaged as this role's core partnership network. The Lead PM leads through influence, credibility, and precise communication — translating fluently between Finance/Reinsurance domain language and Technology/Product delivery language.

The Lead Product Manager, Finance & Reinsurance Systems position reports to the Vice President, Portfolio Strategy & Delivery and can be based out of our office in Topeka or Overland Park, Kansas, or Des Moines, Iowa. We work a hybrid schedule, offering flexibility to work both remotely and on-site.

• Shape the 3-year product roadmap direction for the Finance & Reinsurance domain,
• Own the portfolio-level investment recommendation that Executive leadership acts on for prioritization, sequencing, and strategic trade-offs
• Serve as the product management perspective for Finance & Reinsurance in leadership discussions on digital strategy and CCDM model evolution
• Drive product thinking for complex, multi-year initiatives within the domain where no established playbook exists — including anticipating systems implications of regulatory changes (e.g., VM-22 adoption), reinsurance structure evolution, investment management transitions, and entity-level changes before they become execution problems
• Identify gaps, redundancies, and integration risks across the Finance technology stack; develop recommendations for rationalization or enhancement
• Support organizational scalability planning for the domain, including anticipating whether future scope — such as Enterprise Financial Systems or the growing Reinsurance Platform — may warrant additional dedicated product or platform capacity over time

• Establish/ Maintain domain-level standards for Epic definition, roadmap construction, outcome measurement, and stakeholder engagement
• Lead retrospectives and capability assessments of the product management practice within the domain; identify and implement systemic improvements
• Own cross-team product dependencies and alignment across three or more product areas within the domain, including Finance…