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A large insurer is standing up a dedicated product team to manage its open-source software supply chain risk, and is pairing engineers with agentic AI tooling to do it, signaling that software supply chain security is becoming a standalone product discipline inside non-tech enterprises.
This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio (preferred), Des Moines, Iowa, or Scottsdale, Arizona office 2 days per week.
Nationwide’s Application Product Security team is seeking a Manager, Software Engineering Product Manager (SEPM) to build and lead a new Software Supply Chain Security product team. This engineering player-coach will lead 3–4 associates and own the technical direction, priorities, delivery, adoption, reliability, and operation of capabilities that secure Nationwide’s use of open-source software, with an initial focus on the Software Composition Analysis platform, currency automation, and open-source boundary protection. This team serves a critical role in protecting Nationwide from the growing risk of open-source vulnerabilities, malicious packages, and supply chain attacks.
The team will model a modern product engineering approach built on a small team of software engineers. It will reduce handoffs by combining agentic software engineering, architecture, reliability, product thinking, and operational ownership within a compact team. The team will be accountable not only for delivering capabilities, but also for adoption, service health, support, control effectiveness, continuous improvement, and long-term technical direction.
The team will adopt an agentic-first mindset. AI-enabled and agentic workflows will be considered from the outset for every aspect of the team’s work. Agents may perform appropriately delegated work, but people will retain accountability for product intent, engineering judgment, verification, risk decisions, production changes, and service outcomes. The team will align closely with the AI-DLC program, leveraging coaching, advanced tools, and new practices needed for teams to achieve a “high camp” maturity level.
The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer, technical lead, architect, platform engineer, or site reliability engineer who has led technical work and thinks in terms of customer outcomes, adoption, reliability, and lifecycle value. The candidate understands modern developer platforms and software delivery, learns unfamiliar domains quickly, and can turn ambiguous problems into simple, reliable engineering capabilities. They are willing to challenge traditional role boundaries and use AI and agents thoughtfully while maintaining strong human judgment, verification, auditability, and accountability.
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Job Description Summary
If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
Partner with leaders to ensure a viable total cost of ownership and ongoing health, stability, and sustainability of applications.
Assist in the development and implementation of application suite roadmaps through the evaluation of business needs, competitive landscape, technology currency and information security considerations.
Manage risk mitigation controls and provide support for internal and external audits.
Support the engineering build of the application suite and non-technical efforts for the products.
Represents the voice of the customer and acts in a forward-facing role to business partners as an active member of a portfolio management team in advocating for business case development, planning, financial management, and portfolio evaluation.
Leads all aspects of associate management, including performance, salary administration, training and development, hiring, day-to-day management and corrective actions.
Ensure delivery availability and resiliency through established operating mechanisms and best practices.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Reporting Relationships: Reports to Technology Director or above. Leads a team of 5 or more technology professionals.
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education: Undergraduate studies in management information systems, engineering, math, computer science or comparable experience and education are preferred.
Experience: Six or more years of experience in application suite management with four or more years leading numerous teams across multiple technologies. Proven experience in empowering and building an engaged team.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Detailed understanding and knowledge of the systems development life cycle and modern methodologies, practices, tools, and techniques. Solid understanding of concepts and techniques in project delivery, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis. Ability to develop and implement roadmap strategies. Proven decision-making and problem-solving skills. Ability to coach and develop a team. Ability to develop and maintain positive relationships. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge is a plus.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies, and experiences may take precedence.
Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resources Business Partner.
Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.
Job Conditions:
Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)
Working Conditions: Hybrid to normal office environment. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends.
ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.
Benefits
We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.
Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.
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Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.The national salary range for Manager, Software Engineering Product Manager : $118,000.00-$222,000.00The expected starting salary range for Manager, Software Engineering Product Manager : $118,000.00 - $178,000.00
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