Product Lead

Salary Range: $90,000 - $128,500

Job Posting End Date: February 13, 2026

We’ve Got You Under Our Wing

We are the duck. We develop and empower our people, cultivate relationships, give back to our community, and celebrate every success along the way. We do it all…The Aflac Way.

Aflac, a Fortune 500 company, is an industry leader in voluntary insurance products that pay cash directly to policyholders and one of America's best-known brands. Aflac has been recognized as Fortune’s 50 Best Workplaces for Diversity and as one of World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere.com.

Our business is about being there for people in need. So, ask yourself, are you the duck? If so, there’s a home, and a flourishing career for you at Aflac.

Worker Designation – This role is hybrid. This means you will be expected to report to one of our Aflac offices located in Columbus, GA for at least 60% of the work week. You will work from your home (within the continental US) for the remaining portion of the work week. Details of this schedule will be discussed with your leadership. 

What does it take to be successful at Aflac?

• Acting with Integrity
• Communicating Effectively
• Pursuing Self-Development
• Serving Customers
• Supporting Change
• Supporting Organizational Goals
• Working with Diverse Populations

What does it take to be successful in this role?

• Experience with agile project teams with the ability to facilitate cross-functional teams that include the Consumer Markets team, stakeholders and leaders across the organization.

• Ability to provide clear and concise collaborative verbal and written communications (e.g. emails, presentations) to effectively communicate plans, status, and expectations while building team unity and culture.

• Strong aptitude for conceptualizing, communicating and selling new concepts, while also being able to take an analytic approach to problem solving and strategic development.

• Demonstrated relationship skills and proven success effectively leading product management processes.

• Ability to creatively convert customer and competitor feedback (qualitative and quantitative) into products with strong value proposition to increase consumer and producer consideration.

• Ability to work well in a dynamic group environment and under deadline pressures.

• Effective time management and prioritization skills.

• Displays a positive, constructive attitude and determination to follow through.

Education & Experience Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Communications, Business Administration, or a related field
• 6+ years of professional job-related experience
• 3+ years of experience in the development of insurance products or relevant agile team / project management

Or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Travel

Less than or equal to 25%

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Manages the process for designing new products and product revisions. Facilitates team design sessions eliciting and documenting user stories and requirements. Identifies opportunities to improve customer value and experience as well as market competitiveness.

• Manages the process for creating insurance applications, policies, riders, statement of variability, and associated forms. Drafts new product documents or edit existing documents where available. Facilitates team, legal, and compliance reviews, document changes, and iterates toward final approval.

• Manages the product filing process toward regulatory approval. Facilitates initial filing and objection responses to regulators as required; provides stakeholders product approval status reports.

• Creates product roadmaps and serves as a subject matter expert to platform teams tasked with bringing approved products to market. Collaborates with training and marketing teams on training and advertising collateral to drive demand.

• Tracks and assesses sales performance and design assumptions; works with actuary and other stakeholders to consolidate product performance across metrics for sales, persistency, claims, and customer feedback. Consolidates and presents results to the team to help inform future product variations or changes.

• Conducts industry and competitive analysis to identify opportunities and threats. Identifies any need for primary research and contributes to the design in collaboration with internal/external research firms as appropriate. Develops business strategies based on analysis and presents to the team; including current product enhancements, new products or new market entries for Consumer Markets.

• Performs other duties as needed.

Total Rewards

The salary range for this job is $90,000 - $128,500. This range is specific to the job and salary offers consider a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including, but not limited to: education, experience, licensure, certifications, geographic location, and peer compensation. The range has been created in good faith based on information known to Aflac at the time of the posting.

At Aflac, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for the role to allow for future and continued salary growth, and compensation decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each case. This salary range does not include any potential incentive pay or benefits, however, such information will be provided separately when appropriate.

In addition to the base salary, we offer an array of benefits to meet your needs including medical, dental, and vision coverage, prescription drug coverage, health care flexible spending, dependent care flexible spending, Aflac supplemental policies (Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity offered at no costs to employee), 401(k) plans, annual bonuses, and an opportunity to purchase company stock.  On an annual basis, you’ll also be offered 11 paid holidays, up to 20 days PTO to be used for any reason, and, if eligible, state-mandated sick leave (Washington employees accrue 1-hour sick leave for every 40 hours worked) and other leaves of absence, if eligible, when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being. Aflac complies with all applicable leave laws, including, but not limited to, sick and safe leave, and adoption and parental leave, in all states and localities.