At Allstate in Northern Ireland, we're not just keeping pace — we're setting it. As Allstate continues to drive digital transformation, we seek a Mainframe Lead Digital Product Manager (Sr. Manager) — Hybrid/Remote.OverviewAt Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. For more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws to leading in pricing sophistication, telematics, and device and identity protection.Your role in the teamThe Architecture Compute, and Engineering organization provides a transformative platform ecosystem with capabilities that empower end users and digital product teams to innovate and drive growth for Allstate through the Consumer Connected Cloud mission. This ecosystem aims to provide an absolute frictionless experience for our user community. As a Lead Digital Product Manager in the ACE organization, you'll be a player/coach driving multiple products across a platform, contributing toward defining, delivering, and managing the lifecycle of a suite of products to meet customer needs and align with the company’s strategic goals. You will lead and coach a team of Digital Product Managers to advance product strategy and practice. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, technical understanding, and business acumen.Key ResponsibilitiesProduct Portfolio Leadership: Manage the strategic direction of your product family (multiple products) ensuring alignment to top-priority outcomes; including vision and strategy for the suite of digital products and developing & managing a strategic roadmapMarket Research: Conduct market and user research to identify trends, customer needs, and the competitive landscapeProduct Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and launch new digital productsRoadmap Management and Alignment: Create appropriate forums for roadmap alignment and planning in support of strategic initiatives across the product portfolio and product management teamOngoing Management: Work with Digital Product teams to optimize team ceremonies and practices to drive maturity including writing & grooming stories, prioritizing, and managing the backlogPerformance Monitoring: Define product performance metrics & monitor product performance using analytics tools and make data-driven decisionsStakeholder Management: Communicate product progress and updates to internal stakeholders and external partners ensuring appropriate prioritization and coordinationVendor Management: Engage in strategic vendor management where necessary, ensuring interactive partnerships with external vendors and internal sourcing leadersBudget Management: Forecast total cost of ownership of products, manage budgets including vendor contracts, hardware costs, and labor costs, ensuring operational effectiveness; develop strategies and adjust courses of actionCustomer Feedback: Gather and analyze customer feedback to continually improve the productImpact and Influence: Drive maturity in product management practices and influence engineering, platform consultant, and architecture leadership within your product domain and across ACEGrow Talent: Grow & mature Digital Product Management practitioner skills within the team, modeling expected behaviors and nurturing individual growthQualificationsAll candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK. Allstate is unable to provide sponsorship for this position.A minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Digital Product ManagerA minimum of 2 years coaching and leading teamsMust have experience in one or more of the following within the last 10 years: COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, and z/OS fundamentalsExperience with Agile methodologies and product management toolingExperience of development processes, human-centered design, UX/UI design, and digital marketingDemonstrable experience in effectively communicating complex and innovative product concepts to cross-functional development teamsProven ability to apply data-driven decision-making to influence product direction and prioritizationStrong capability in breaking down complex initiatives into incremental and iterative deliverables aligned with Agile best practicesDefined product performance metrics and monitoring using analytics tools to drive decisionsUnderstanding of system behaviors, batch and online transactions, performance tuning, and capacity planningFamiliarity with RACF, encryption standards, and audit requirementsSupervisory ExperienceThis job does have supervisory duties.Job posting end date: Friday the 3rd of October 2025Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate’s European Digital Centre of Excellence—recent winners of ‘Best Use of Cloud Services’ at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards 2024, and recognised for our community and sustainability impact at the 2024 Business in the Community Awards and Gold accreditation for Environmental Responsibility.We’re a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value.We offer:A generous, flexible benefits package including annual leave, healthcare and dental cover, pension, and lifestyle discountsAccess to world-class learning platforms and award-winning L&DClear career paths, internal mobility, and a strong focus on growthA people-first culture with flexible working optionsBe part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way.Statement on Fair Employment and Equal OpportunitiesAllstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position. #J-18808-Ljbffr