Technology Product Manager

The Technology Product Manager is a senior individual-contributor role responsible for owning the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of key technology products that enable Baldwin’s insurance brokerage lifecycle (e.g., client/colleague portals, policy administration tools, internal brokerage platforms). Operating with advanced professional judgment, this role leads cross‑functional teams to discover customer and colleague needs, define outcome‑oriented solutions, and deliver incremental value through modern product management practices. Drawing on leading product management standards from accredited programs, the Technology Product Manager applies data‑driven decision making, structured discovery, and iterative delivery to align product outcomes with business, operational, and client goals. ## Primary Responsibilities - Define and continuously refine vision, strategy, and measurable objectives for assigned products, ensuring clear alignment with Baldwin’s brokerage strategy and operating model. - Develop and maintain an outcome‑oriented product roadmap that balances regulatory, operational, user experience, and technical considerations; socialize and adjust roadmaps based on evidence and stakeholder input. - Lead structured discovery using techniques endorsed by accredited product programs (e.g., stakeholder interviews, journey mapping, qualitative user research, and collaborative workshops) to understand user problems and opportunities. - Partner with Analytics and business teams to translate behavioral data, incident trends, and operational metrics into actionable product insights and hypotheses. - Translate problems and opportunities into well‑formed epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria and edge cases suitable for Agile delivery teams. - Collaborate daily with Engineering, Architecture, UX, and Operations to shape feasible solution options, clarify trade‑offs, and ensure designs adhere to technical, security, and data standards. - Own the product backlog for assigned domains: prioritize based on customer impact, risk, regulatory needs, dependencies, and capacity, using recognized prioritization frameworks (e.g., RICE, WSJF, value vs. effort). - Act as product lead within Agile ceremonies (e.g., planning, backlog refinement, reviews), ensuring work items are ready, understood, and anchored to defined outcomes. - Oversee functional validation for key features: define test scenarios, support test case design, review results, and accept/reject work based on agreed acceptance criteria. - Coordinate release readiness for assigned changes, including communications, training inputs, support playbooks, and monitoring plans; ensure controlled rollout and early‑life support. - Define and track product KPIs and success metrics (e.g., adoption, task completion, error and incident rates, cycle times, NPS/CSAT) in line with data‑driven practices promoted by accredited product curricula. - Analyze product performance and user feedback, run and interpret small experiments where appropriate (e.g., A/B tests, pilot cohorts), and adjust roadmap and backlog based on evidence. - Serve as primary product contact for designated business areas (e.g., Client Service, Operations, Placement, Finance), managing expectations and aligning on priorities and trade‑offs. - Facilitate cross‑functional decision making, presenting clear options, impacts, and recommendations to leaders and governance forums (e.g., change committees, steering groups). - Support change adoption by partnering with Training, Communications, and local leaders to embed new capabilities into processes and roles. - Provide peer coaching and informal mentoring to Associate and Technology Product Analysts on discovery methods, story writing, prioritization, and stakeholder engagement. - Contribute to evolving Baldwin’s product management practices by sharing lessons learned, templates, and patterns drawn from reputable frameworks (e.g., Pragmatic’s market‑driven…