The Product Manager for Insurance Platforms leads the product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for insurance applications serving internal and external users.
This role translates business needs into prioritized, approved initiatives with clear value, scope, and outcomes, ensuring teams remain focused on the highest-value work. While primarily focused on future roadmap and pipeline (≈80%), this role actively supports in-flight delivery by clarifying requirements, adjusting scope, and ensuring stakeholder alignment and communication.
Key Accountabilities/Deliverables:- Build deep partnerships with business leaders to identify pain points, opportunities, and measurable outcomes
- Maintain an 18-month roadmap and a 6+ month ready backlog aligned to business priorities and capacity
- Lead end-to-end business case development, ensuring clear value (ROI), defined scope, and approved prioritization
- Balance feature delivery with technical investment (reliability, scalability, modernization)
- Own requirements clarity, backlog prioritization, and stakeholder alignment across all initiatives
- Provide clear, consistent progress and roadmap reporting, enabling informed stakeholder decisions
- Define and track success metrics for delivered outcomes
- Drive prioritization trade-offs based on value, risk, and capacity
- Enforce intake, prioritization, and funding governance processes to ensure alignment to portfolio priorities
Technical Knowledge and Understanding:- Strong written communication skills for technical and executive audiences (C-suite)
- Practical experience with Agile delivery (Scrum, Kanban)
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated habit of continuously teaching themselves new skills, with clear examples of recently applied learning
- Working knowledge of the Duck Creek platform preferred
- Familiarity with workflow automation tools (e.g., Power Automate) preferred
Experience:- 5+ years of experience in the insurance industry
- 3+ years of experience in product management within Agile environments
- 3+ years of experience driving insurance platform development
- Experience with Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence)
- Experience using AI-enabled tools (e.g., Copilot) to improve productivity
- B2B product experience preferred
- Experience in insurance operations (underwriting, claims, billing, or sales) for a carrier or agent preferred.
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At Core Specialty, you will receive a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development and advancement. We offer medical, dental, vision, and life insurances; short and long-term disability; a Company-match of 100% of a 6% contribution 401(k) plan; an Employee Assistance Plan; Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, Health Reimbursement Account, and a wellness program
