Technical Product Manager - Emerging Concepts, Technology Analyst

Overview

Being good neighbors – helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place – is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. We're moving with urgency to become a Next Gen Good Neighbor, with technology that strengthens human connections and enhances the customer experience. As an employee, you'll spend less time navigating systems and more time applying judgment, empathy, and expertise in the moments that matter most.

Responsibilities

Within Emerging Concepts, this Technology Analyst will serve as an AI-literate technical product partner. The role will determine what is technically required to test promising concepts and define the smallest useful and responsible path forward. It will identify systems, data, API, architecture, privacy, security and responsible-AI dependencies; translate customer and business needs into technical options and tradeoffs; and coordinate with product, engineering, experience, data and experimentation partners. This is an individual-contributor role with no direct reports.

Role Overview

You'll bring AI-literate technical product leadership that turns early opportunities into responsible, testable technical paths. You will identify the smallest useful build, simulation, reuse or partnership needed to answer the critical question and prepare promising work for testing and scale. You own the Feasibility and Handoff Plan, which keeps technical work prioritized and prepares a clean transition to the team that takes it forward. You'll work within Digital Growth Engine, where evidence and learning guide decisions.

Team Mission

Emerging Concepts finds and shapes the next wave of growth opportunities, makes them tangible, and partners with dedicated experimentation and delivery teams to test, learn, and scale what works.

Key Responsibilities

• Define a minimum viable technical approach, prototype needs and learning plan for emerging concepts and their critical assumptions.
• Guide lightweight technical plans and priorities that balance speed of learning with real security, privacy, and responsible-AI standards.
• Keep the team's concurrent prototypes and technical work prioritized, sequenced, and moving. Surface blockers and dependencies before they stall a decision.
• Partner with design, engineering, data science and business teams to define the smallest credible and responsible build that answers the critical question.
• Weigh build, buy, partner, and reuse options, and make the tradeoffs on value, speed, risk, and cost visible.
• Set technical success criteria so prototypes produce real evidence, not just demos.
• Assess scale-readiness: architecture, data, integrations, cost, risk, and ownership.
• Collaborate and hand off promising concepts cleanly to the product, platform or engineering team that takes them forward.

Qualifications

• Experience leading technical products or AI-enabled platforms from discovery through delivery planning.
• Strong technical product judgment: you define the smallest credible and responsible build, evaluate delivery options, manage dependencies and make value, risk and speed tradeoffs visible.
• Applied AI fluency and working knowledge of modern data, cloud, and AI/ML architecture, enough to partner credibly with engineering.
• You translate customer and business needs into clear technical choices, without losing the concept's original intent.
• Strong cross-functional communication across business, engineering, privacy, security, and legal.

Preferred Experience

• You've worked in a large, regulated company and know how to navigate privacy, security, and legal requirements.
• Background in insurance, financial services, or digital customer experience a plus.
• You've thrived in cross-functional, pod-based teams and moved work from idea to reality.
• You default to measurable outcomes and clear documentation over busywork.

How Success Will Be Measured

• Concepts get technically de-risked early: assumptions, costs, and delivery options made visible up front.
• Teams reach a useful technical test faster and stop prototypes that cannot inform a real decision.
• Promising concepts transition with clear context, clear ownership, and few downstream surprises.

Leadership & Ways of Working

• Always put the customer and measurable outcomes first.
• Bring expertise with confident humility: state your view, invite challenge, adapt when the evidence changes.
• Turn ambiguity into clarity and make tradeoffs visible so the team can move fast.
• Build real partnerships across business and tech, and share what you learn.
• Hold a high bar for data privacy, security, and ethics.

SPONSORSHIP:  Applicants for this position are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity.  

Hybrid Work Arrangement: A “Hybrid” position means selected candidates will be assigned to a facility and will spend some time working both in the office and from home. For Enterprise Technology, a hybrid work arrangement will require approximately 40% in-office time each month, beginning in late 2027. 

Our Benefits

Because work-life balance is a priority at State Farm, compensation is based on our standard 38:45-hour work week!

• Potential starting salary range: $80,600.00 - $123,000.00
• Starting salary will be based on skills, background, and experience
• High end of the range limited to applicants with significant relevant experience
• Potential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary

At State Farm, we offer more than just a paycheck. Check out our suite of benefits designed to give you the flexibility you need to take care of you and your family!

• Get Paid! On top of our competitive pay, you are eligible for an annual raise and bonus.
• Stay Well! Focus on you and your family’s health with our robust health and wellbeing programs. State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan. All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
• Develop and Grow! Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
• Plan Ahead! Plan for those big moments in life with benefits like fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, interactive monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more. You can also start a savings account or consider financing through our State Farm Federal Credit Union!
• Take a Little “You” Time! You will have access to our generous time off policies designed so you can plan around holidays, family events, volunteering, or just to take a relaxing day off. With the opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave (40 hours/year), bereavement leave, and community service/education support days, there will be plenty of time for you!
• Give Back! We offer several ways to give back through our Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
• Finish Strong! Plan for retirement using free financial advisors and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.

Visit our State Farm Careers page for more information on our benefits, locations, and the hiring process of joining the State Farm team!