Director, Insurance Product Management

The Director, Insurance Product Management is responsible for the execution and delivery oversight of internal insurance systems and operational capabilities that support annuity insurance. This role partners with business, technology, operations, actuarial, compliance, data, finance, and vendor teams to shape insurance systems strategy and vision, and to ensure roadmaps are executed effectively, priorities are managed across teams, and delivery outcomes are achieved.

What You Will Do

Manage execution of the roadmap across all assigned insurance systems and operational capability areas, ensuring priorities are delivered on schedule and issues are resolved quickly. Manage, coach, and hold accountable a team of Product Managers, overseeing their day-to-day work on roadmap execution, stakeholder management, prioritization, and delivery.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate is a hands-on, execution-focused leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can manage a portfolio of concurrent initiatives through their team, and is comfortable navigating complex operational, technical, and organizational challenges.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Information Technology, Business, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of 12-14+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis, or related enterprise application functions, including experience directly managing a team.
• Demonstrated experience managing, coaching, and holding accountable Product Managers or similar product/business analysis professionals.
• Experience working within financial services, insurance, annuities, life insurance, or related highly regulated industries.
• Experience managing delivery for enterprise applications, operational systems, policy administration, servicing, workflow, document generation, integrations, data exchange, or related insurance business capabilities across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of software delivery processes and proven experience managing execution in Agile or iterative development environments.
• Ability to manage a portfolio of concurrent priorities in a fast-paced environment with shifting business needs, limited capacity, and cross-functional/cross-team dependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with business leaders on strategy and vision for insurance systems areas, and translate that direction into actionable, executable roadmaps.
• Experience partnering with and coordinating cross-functional business and technical teams, including Operations, Accounting, Actuarial, Compliance, Data, Finance, Distribution, Engineering, and external vendors.
• Experience supporting annuity or life insurance products, policy administration systems, insurance operations, or regulated financial services systems strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to guide investigation of system behavior, operational workflows, financial outputs, data issues, integration failures, and production defects.
• Ability to oversee the definition, refinement, and prioritization of epics, features, user stories, business rules, acceptance criteria, and business readiness needs across a team.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to coordinate across stakeholders and translate between business and technology audiences.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, exercise sound judgment, and drive team execution to completion with minimal oversight.

Benefits

• Salaried, DOE
• Long-Term Incentive Plan
• Full-Time
• Full Benefits Package Available