Head of Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the property insurance roadmap for Prometheus, encompassing underwriting, accumulation, and portfolio workflows.

• Link roadmap items to specific carriers and market evidence, ensuring a defensible ranked order.

• Aim to decrease carrier request-to-ship time on a quarterly basis.

• Convert carrier workflows into Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), acceptance criteria, and technical specifications for the Engineering team.

• Collaborate with Sales on discovery processes, product demonstrations, and due diligence.

• Establish pilot acceptance metrics with carriers, assess adoption rates and decision impacts post-launch, and incorporate findings into subsequent iterations.

• Oversee model usage for insurance, determining the suitability of models for carrier and regulatory applications.

• Manage the model inventory, validation approvals, documentation packages, change logs, AI systems usage policies, and responses to inquiries from carriers and regulators.

• Prevent unvalidated model alterations from entering production.

• Define product roles and partnerships, recruit and nurture the global Product team, and set standards for product specifications, validation, and handoff to Engineering.

• Work closely with the CEO as a manager and engage with Engineering, Sales, and carrier stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in product management, with at least 4 products owned that are utilized by insurance underwriting, actuarial, risk management, or claims teams.

• Proven experience in launching geospatial, machine learning, or data API products.

• Experience in property insurance products at a carrier, MGA, or reinsurer, with products actively in the market.

• Played a core-team role in at least one property insurance product through multiple release cycles, demonstrating that adoption or commercial success improved over iterations.

• Willingness to travel occasionally as needed (approximately 20%).

• Familiarity with property risk and catastrophe modeling, encompassing hazard and vulnerability assessments, AAL and PML, accumulation, and treaty limits.

• Experience in integrating third-party data with policy administration and rating systems such as Guidewire and Duck Creek.

• Knowledge of model governance, including documentation, independent validation, change control, and regulatory requirements for the use of models, data, and AI by insurers.

• Understanding of geospatial and AI product engineering, including parcel and geocoding accuracy, raster and vector data, spatial indexing (e.g., H3), imagery-derived attributes, model training and validation, and API delivery.

• Proven track record in building and leading product teams, and hiring product managers and specialists from diverse global talent pools.

• Ability to regularly engage with underwriters, actuaries, and catastrophe managers, distinguishing carrier requests from needs that carriers will adopt and utilize.

• Proficiency in writing clear PRDs with testable acceptance criteria.

• Capacity to make evidence-based decisions with incomplete information and take ownership of outcomes.

• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Performance-based cash bonuses tied to company success.

• Majority employer-covered health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy.

• Group Life Insurance at twice your base salary, funded by the company.

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options to optimize your healthcare expenditures.

• Competitive base salary regardless of your work location.