Product Manager, IT Platforms

Core Specialty Insurance Services, Inc.; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life ins

Short and long-term disability

401(k) with company match

Employee Assistance Plan

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

Health Reimbursement Account

Wellness program

Job summary

Core Specialty Insurance Services, Inc. is seeking a Product Manager for IT Platforms in Cincinnati.

You will lead the product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for platforms and infrastructure that support our business applications, focusing on cloud infrastructure, security, and monitoring toolsets. You will partner with product management peers and stakeholders to translate needs into prioritized platform initiatives with clear value, scope, and outcomes, while guiding in-flight delivery and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Business Administration or equivalent.
• 3+ years in product management within Agile environments.
• 3+ years driving cloud and/or security initiatives.
• Experience with Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence).
• Experience using AI-enabled tools (e.g., Copilot) to improve productivity.
• Experience in regulated industries (insurance/financial services/healthcare) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build deep partnerships with business leaders to identify pain points, opportunities, and measurable outcomes.
• Maintain an 18-month roadmap and a 6+ month ready backlog aligned to priorities and capacity.
• Lead end-to-end business case development with ROI, defined scope, and prioritization.
• Balance feature delivery with reliability, scalability, modernization.
• Own requirements clarity, backlog prioritization, and stakeholder alignment across initiatives.
• Provide clear, consistent progress and roadmap reporting for informed decisions.
• Define and track success metrics for delivered outcomes.
• Drive prioritization trade-offs based on value, risk, and capacity.
• Enforce intake, prioritization, and funding governance to align with portfolio priorities.

Skills

Agile delivery

Cloud infrastructure

Azure & AWS

Security tooling

Stakeholder influence

Jira & Confluence

AI tools (Copilot)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or business

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

- The Product Manager for IT Platforms leads the product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for the platforms and infrastructure that support our business applications. This role is responsible for driving initiatives that strengthen our cloud infrastructure and improve our security, development, and monitoring toolsets. This role partners closely with product management peers and stakeholders to translate the need for secure, reliable and maintainable applications into prioritized platform and infrastructure initiatives with clear value, scope, and outcomes, ensuring teams remain focused on the highest-value work. While primarily focused on future roadmap and pipeline planning (≈80%), the role also supports in-flight delivery by clarifying requirements, refining scope, and maintaining stakeholder alignment and communication.

Key Accountabilities/Deliverables:

• Build deep partnerships with business leaders to identify pain points, opportunities, and measurable outcomes
• Maintain an 18-month roadmap and a 6+ month ready backlog aligned to business priorities and capacity
• Lead end-to-end business case development, ensuring clear value (ROI), defined scope, and approved prioritization
• Balance feature delivery with technical investment (reliability, scalability, modernization)
• Own requirements clarity, backlog prioritization, and stakeholder alignment across all initiatives
• Provide clear, consistent progress and roadmap reporting, enabling informed stakeholder decisions
• Define and track success metrics for delivered outcomes
• Drive prioritization trade-offs based on value, risk, and capacity
• Enforce intake, prioritization, and funding governance processes to ensure alignment to portfolio priorities

Technical Knowledge and Understanding:

• Strong written communication skills for technical and executive audiences (C-suite)
• Practical experience with Agile delivery (Scrum, Kanban)
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, layered security and development/monitoring tooling
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated habit of continuously teaching themselves new skills, with clear examples of recently applied learning
• Deep understanding of Azure and AWS clouds, development tools and pipelines, security preferred

Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Business Administration related discipline (or equivalent practical experience)
• 3+ years in product management within Agile environments
• 3+ years driving cloud and/or security initiatives
• Experience with Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence)
• Experience using AI-enabled tools (e.g., Copilot) to improve productivity
• Experience working in a regulated industry (insurance, financial services, healthcare) preferred

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over work authorization sponsorship now or in the future for this position. #LI-Hybrid

At Core Specialty, you will receive a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development and advancement.

Benefits:

• medical, dental, vision, and life insurances
• short and long-term disability
• a Company-match of 100% of a 6% contribution 401(k) plan
• an Employee Assistance Plan
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Reimbursement Account
• a wellness program

Core Specialty offers a diversified range of property and casualty insurance products for small to mid-sized businesses. From underwriting offices spanning the U.S., the Company focuses on niche markets, local distribution, and superior underwriting knowledge, offering traditional as well as innovative insurance solutions to meet the needs of its customers and brokers.

For further information about Core Specialty, please visit www.corespecialtyinsurance.com. In compliance with the Transparency in Coverage rule, issued in 2020 by US Departments of Health, Human Services, Labor and Treasury our health plan’s machine-readable files (MRFs) can be accessed via www.Cigna.com.