Manager, Software Engineering Product Manager (Software Supply Chain Security)

Manager, Software Engineering Product Manager

If you're passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide's Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide, "on your side" goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we're looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

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 34 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.

Core Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Recruit, onboard, lead, coach, and develop 34 associates with complementary product, engineering, automation, data, and security strengths.
• Manage the vendor relationship, budget, product performance, and Nationwide adoption for the new Software Composition Analysis platform.
• Take ownership over existing open-source currency automation custom solutions, making strategic enhancements that results in Nationwide applications efficiently and continuously running current dependencies.
• Act as a player-coach and tech lead by contributing directly to product improvements, technical designs, automation, technical mentorship, and incident or problem resolution.
• Maintain a single, outcome-oriented backlog that balances risk reduction, developer experience, control effectiveness, operational health, modernization, and technical debt.
• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, roadmap, operating model, and measures of success for capabilities that secure Nationwide's use of open-source software.
• Design team workflows with AI-assisted and agentic execution in mind rather than adding automation only after manual processes are established.
• Protect time for learning and experimentation while holding the team accountable for reliable delivery and support.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience

• Deep practical knowledge of modern software engineering and delivery, including source control, dependency management, package ecosystems, build systems, APIs, CI/CD, cloud platforms, containers, artifact repositories, observability, and developer workflows.
• Strong architecture and systems-design skills, including decomposition, integration patterns, reliability, scalability, failure modes, operability, and technical tradeoffs.
• Serving as a technical lead, architect, senior software engineer, platform engineer, or site reliability engineer for a developer-facing platform or shared service.
• Hands-on use of AI coding assistants, agents, or multi-agent workflows for software engineering, testing, analysis, documentation, or operations.
• Experience with software composition analysis, dependency management, SBOMs, provenance, vulnerability remediation, or open-source governance is helpful but not required.
• Experience in cybersecurity or knowledge of security frameworks is helpful but not required; demonstrated technical learning agility is more important.