Sr. Manager - CompoZed XP Lab
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Irving, Texas
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Mar 26, 2019
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- Category
- IT , Executive / Management
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field cant be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. Youll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers lives. Well help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, youll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And youll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Description
The mission of CompoZed XP labs is to create accelerated value for Allstate customers and partners by delivering custom software using best XP engineering practices, lean product thinking, and user-centered design. The Sr. Lab Manager is an agent of change who takes ownership of his/her lab while evolving the operating model. A large focus of this role will be Product Management
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure that people in the lab are motivated, challenged, and provided with growth opportunities.
- Foster an environment in which product teams are empowered to deliver business value quickly and iteratively.
- Ensure that products are at the best state of readiness prior to kickoff, mitigating substantial risk for both business and delivery teams.
- Measure and communicate lab KPIs.
Job Qualifications
- 10+ years of related IT experience
- A significant digital product management experience leading custom software teams
- Prior PCF/AWS experience is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with TDD/BDD and CI/CD.
- Experience driving corporate agile transformations.
- Lean approach to product management and continuous process improvement.
- Experience driving iterative thinking and results.
- Highly connected to and aware of the external tech community.
- Strong mentoring, coaching, and facilitation skills.
- Personal maturity and leadership qualities.
- Empathy and ability to manage by influence in matrixed organizations.
The ideal candidate will have the following experience in addition to the above:
- Experience with a Startups, rather than only large enterprises
- Innovation rather than support of existing components
- Product management rather than project/delivery management
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary but thats just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, youll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
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- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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