Product Management Associate, AI & Automation

MetLife; United States; Remote; USD 112,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Life insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

MetLife, Inc. is seeking an experienced Product Management Associate to support AI-enabled applications and products within Disability and Absence operations.

The role requires strong product judgment, data fluency, and the ability to influence across business and technology teams, with eligibility for Eastern Time Zone hours. You will drive analysis, define requirements, and guide engineering toward scalable, measurable solutions while balancing innovation with risk and compliance.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of professional experience in insurance or financial services with product management or operations transformation.
• 5+ years leading products through delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement in agile teams.
• 2+ years applying AI, ML, or intelligent automation to business problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI automation opportunities across the full claims lifecycle and own the AI product roadmap.
• Design workflows pairing AI agents with human judgment for high-stakes decisions.
• Build relationships with operations leadership and present data-backed impact narratives to executives.
• Directly manage Product Owners and collaborate with engineering to solve real business problems.
• Ensure programs focus on high-value features and track KPIs with hands-on engagement with AI tools.

Skills

Product management

AI product considerations

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Education

Advanced degree

Job description

Join the nation’s largest non-medical carrier of group insurance, where your work will impact over 55,000 customers and cover more than 50 million employees and family members. As part of MetLife’s Group Benefits team, you’ll deliver innovative benefits solutions - life, disability, dental, vision, and voluntary benefits - tailored to today’s employers and workforces. Collaborate with customers, brokers, and partners to expand our offerings and reimagine digital experiences. Join us and be part of an organization committed to supporting customers when they need us most.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Product Management Associate to support the Product Manager –AI & Automation in developing AI-enabled applications and products that improve Disability and Absence operations. This role requires an AI-centric professional who combines strong product judgment, operational insight, data fluency, and the ability to influence across business and technology teams.

The successful candidate will work independently, take initiative, identify high-value opportunities, translate complex operational needs into actionable product requirements, and guide engineering teams toward solutions that are responsible, scalable, measurable, and easy to adopt.

The Product Management Associate assists the Product Manager and Solution Manager by independently driving the analysis, definition, and elaboration of features that align with customer, operational, and enterprise objectives. This self‑motivated individual will proactively advance work, resolve ambiguity, surface risks, and bring forward recommendations with limited day‑to‑day direction. The person will help shape AI‑enabled product strategy; test assumptions with data and users; define benefit hypotheses, success measures, and guardrails; and ensure solutions deliver a strong user experience. The role requires senior‑level capability in product management, relationship management, requirements analysis, process improvement, and technology, along with the judgment to balance innovation, risk, compliance, and operational readiness.

Eligible candidates should be prepared to work Eastern Time Zone hours.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the identification, prioritization, and sequencing of AI automation opportunities across the full claim lifecycle, owning the AI product roadmap and robotics‑to‑AI transition plan while balancing quick wins with transformational initiatives.
• Design human‑in‑the‑loop workflows that pair AI agents with human judgment on high‑stakes claims decisions, defining confidence thresholds, escalation triggers, and error handling to ensure operational trust in AI‑driven outcomes.
• Build trust‑based relationships with operations leadership, observe claims workflows firsthand, and serve as a thought leader and storyteller for the transformation, regularly presenting data‑backed impact narratives to senior leadership.
• Directly manage, coach, and develop Product Owners while partnering closely with engineering leaders and solution architects to evaluate AI capabilities against real operational needs and ensure technical proposals solve genuine business problems.
• Ensure each Program Increment focuses on the highest‑value features aligned with the roadmap and portfolio OKRs, track delivery against operational KPIs, communicate trade‑off decisions in business terms, and maintain hands‑on engagement with AI tools, agentic frameworks, and the broader AI landscape.

Required Qualifications

• 7-10 years of professional experience in insurance or financial services, including product management, digital product development, business analysis, or operations transformation, including responsibility for complex cross‑functional initiatives.
• 5+ years of experience leading products or capabilities through delivery, launch, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement within an agile delivery model.
• 2+ years of experience applying AI, machine learning, generative AI, intelligent automation, analytics, or decision‑support technologies to business problems.
• Strong understanding of AI product considerations — including data quality, evaluation, human‑in‑the‑loop design, model limitations, monitoring, privacy, security, compliance, and responsible use — combined with advanced analytical and problem‑solving skills and the ability to synthesize ambiguous information, challenge assumptions, and convert insights into measurable outcomes.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, and documentation skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to nontechnical audiences, proven ability to influence without direct authority and build trust across business and technology teams, and a highly independent, self‑motivated approach to managing multiple workstreams, anticipating needs, and delivering high‑quality outcomes with limited supervision.
• Ability to apply AI in high value scenarios to improve effectiveness, quality and business impact while structuring work to combine AI with subject matter expertise.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in Group Benefits, Disability, Absence, or insurance claims.
• Prior experience as a product owner or product manager.
• Advanced degree or recognized product, Agile, data, or AI certification.

The expected salary range for this position is $112,000 - $149,300. This role may also be eligible for annual short‑term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.

Benefits We Offer

• We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no‑cost short‑and long‑term disability.
• We also provide company‑paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!
• For more information regarding MetLife’s U.S. benefits.

About MetLife

Recognizedon Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies",Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companiesto Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of theworld’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities,employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutionalcustomers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positionsin the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI‑enabled, people‑centered future. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long‑term value.

Our purposeis simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world atlarge create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our corevalues - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, andThink Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financialservices. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!

MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law (“protected characteristics”). If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [e-mail]. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process. MetLife maintains a drug‑free workplace.

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liabilities.

This posting is for a current vacancy and is anticipated to remain open for at least 90 days from the listed posting date.