Senior Product Manager, Forward Deployed Platform

MGT Insurance

• $190K — $300K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in a scalable firm, preferably in InsureTech, FinTech, or Consulting.
  • Proven hands-on experience with AI engineering tools such as Claude Code or Codex, with a public GitHub to showcase work.
  • Experience leading complex partner implementations with a focus on actionable lessons learned.
  • Familiarity or experience in InsureTech or with large insurance carriers or brokerages.
  • Strong interpersonal skills for effective partner negotiations and conflict resolution in a live setting.
  • History of transforming customer requests into productized platform features.

Responsibilities

  • Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with platform partners throughout the implementation process.
  • Lead the execution of partner implementations, focusing on product decisions and real-time gap analysis.
  • Directly build and configure project needs using modern AI tools, minimizing backlog delays.
  • Develop clear playbooks from each implementation to standardize processes and improve efficiency.
  • Translate recurring customizations into product features that enhance the platform's overall utility.

Benefits

  • Ability to lead impactful partner engagements and implementations.
  • Opportunity to influence product development directly based on partner feedback.
  • Work in a high-accountability, growth-focused environment that values evidence-based practices.
  • Engage with a collaborative team comprised of Engineering, Operations, and Product experts.
Full Job Description
What You Own
  1. Partner delight. Implementations don't succeed on timelines alone. Ship great solutions on time, but invest in relationships with our platform partners over the long haul as their success is our success.
  2. Implementation outcomes. Lead partner implementations to live in a pod with IPM, Ops, and Data. You own the product decisions, the gap analysis between platform and partner workflow, and the go-live.
  3. Closing the gap yourself. Configure, script, and build what the implementation needs, in code, with modern AI tooling, rather than filing it to a backlog and waiting.
  4. The playbook. Turn each implementation into a written, reusable playbook. Drive cycle time down and prove it.
  5. Feeding the platform. Convert recurring one-off customizations into productized platform features. You are the Platform team's highest-signal source of roadmap truth.
What Great Looks Like
  • Partners name you as the reason the go-live worked, and Engineering names you as the FDE who unblocked rather than escalated.
  • You've led three or more partner implementations to live, each with a written playbook that made the next one faster.
  • Implementation cycle time is trending down and you can show the chart, with the specific changes that moved it.
  • The top recurring customization requests from your implementations are on the Platform roadmap as productized features.
  • Your pod runs on evidence: partner workflow maps, data-backed gap analyses, and working prototypes instead of Gantt charts.
Minimum Requirements (all TPM roles)
  1. You have shipped meaningful work (beyond simple prototypes) with an AI engineering tool (Claude Code, Codex, Devin, etc.) and can show us your public GitHub.
  2. You have 5+ years of experience at a firm that achieved scale, ideally InsureTech, FinTech, or Consulting.
  3. You build things directly. No agile coaches or scrum managers.


Role-Specific Qualifications
  1. You've led complex implementations to live. You can talk through what has gone well and poorly on large custom implementations and how you took those lessons into subsequent projects.
  2. Insurance Depth. FinTech or regulated industry experience helps, but direct experience in InsureTech or at a large carrier or brokerage is ideal.
  3. Partner-facing judgement. You can say no to a partner gracefully, negotiate scope, and keep trust through a rough go-live. Partners trust you even if in conflict.
  4. Productizing instinct. You've turned bespoke customer requests into platform features and can explain how you decided what to generalize.
  5. Growth stage experience. MGT is a small, high-accountability organization and that's a plus for you.
  6. References from peer department managers (Engineering, Ops, Partner leadership) that loved working with you.

We recognize that no candidate will meet every qualification and encourage individuals with relevant experience and interest in the role to apply.

Compensation

$190,000 - $300,000 annual base salary, plus bonus and equity.

We recognize that no candidate will meet every qualification and encourage individuals with relevant experience and interest in the role to apply.

Please note: MGT does not accept unsolicited resumes from staffing vendors, including recruitment agencies and/or search firms. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, MGT employees, or any other company location. Any submittals without a prior signed agreement will become property of MGT.

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