Lead Digital Product Manager

Allstate Allstate · Insurance · Belfast, United Kingdom +1

Lead Digital Product Manager for Integration Platforms at Allstate, responsible for shaping and owning the enterprise-wide integration strategy across APIs, event-driven architecture, and legacy systems. This role involves defining product vision, roadmaps, and lifecycle management for core integration capabilities, leading a team of product managers, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to drive modernization and enable next-generation integration capabilities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and communicate the unified product vision across API, event-driven, and TIBCO integration platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise needs.
  2. Lead product strategy, roadmap planning, and prioritization, balancing new capabilities with technical debt, modernization, and lifecycle management.
  3. Drive platform-level KPIs (adoption, performance, resiliency, developer experience, operational excellence) and leverage data for decision-making.
  4. Provide leadership and coaching to Digital Product Managers, setting standards for backlog management, story refinement, KPI development, and agile practices.
  5. Establish governance, best practices, and operating models for integration product management across teams.

Skills

Required

  • legal right to work in the UK
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in Digital Product Management or related fields
  • Proven experience leading multiple products, teams, or workstreams
  • Strong background in application integration, API management, eventing, or middleware technologies
  • Hands-on experience with integration patterns (REST, messaging, pub/sub, event streaming, orchestration)
  • Demonstrated capability in roadmap development, backlog management, and KPI-driven delivery
  • Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to translate complex technical concepts into customer- and business-centric outcomes
  • Experience mentoring and developing product managers

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of major one streaming/event platforms or API Platforms (Kafka, Apigee, Kong/DataPower etc.)
  • Practical experience with TIBCO BusinessWorks
  • Familiarity with modern cloud-native integration mechanisms like AWS API gateway and Azure API Management
  • Familiarity with AI integration mechanisms like MCPs
  • Experience contributing to large-scale enterprise modernization or platform transformation initiatives
  • Relevant certifications in Agile, Product Management, or Cloud platforms (e.g., Scrum, SAFe, AIPMM, AWS/Azure/GCP certifications)

What the JD emphasized

  • legal right to work in the UK
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in Digital Product Management or related fields
  • Proven experience leading multiple products, teams, or workstreams
  • Strong background in application integration, API management, eventing, or middleware technologies
  • Hands-on experience with integration patterns (REST, messaging, pub/sub, event streaming, orchestration)
  • Demonstrated capability in roadmap development, backlog management, and KPI-driven delivery
  • Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to translate complex technical concepts into customer- and business-centric outcomes
  • Experience mentoring and developing product managers