Director of Product Management

Overview:

If you’re looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we’re hiring. SageSure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking a Director of Product Management, Shared Services. This role will lead our software product vision, strategy, and roadmap in delivering world-class services, APIs, tooling, and access to data for our software product Experience teams. This individual contributor role would be across two product areas in our Shared Services space and champion software operational excellence. Quoting and rating, and policies are core to what we do and need a technical, empathetic, and visionary leader to lead these product areas. 

What you’d be doing:

• Working closely with your engineering partner to craft a vision, strategy, and roadmap for our shared services teams
• Be a visible and passionate champion for great technical products that will enable SageSure to reach its goal of being most admired
• Defining and implementing enhancements to our Product Practice, specifically for our Technical PM track
• Leveraging quantitative and qualitative analysis methods in decision-making, from prioritizing what to build to tracking impact on business outcomes 
• Championing teams’ health including collaboration, trust, team values
• Continuously optimizes velocity and quality 
• Evaluating short and long-term tradeoffs, knowing when to go lean and when to build for scale
• Encouraging a safe and high performing space through constructive and positive feedback loops 
• Embodying thoughtful, empathetic leadership 
• Responsible for working cross-functionally with multiple departments and leaders and promotes cross-functional collaboration within their team to help build trust and relationships across the company
• Regularly assesses talent to build a high-performing team 
• Encourages a growth mindset for the team by proactively coaching team members and ensuring the team continually feels challenged and invested in 
• Proactively interacting with team members, partners, peers, and employees in person—in offsites & office visits—to help elevate in-person engagement
• Proactively visits other offices and geographies to connect with their teams
• Ensuring the SageSure product efforts are not overly insular by implementing a sustained program of learning from best practices from other firms
• Continuously researches and stays on top of market trends, competitive analyses, and opportunities 
• Clear and compelling storytelling, strong verbal and written communication skills, and an ability to communicate to engineers on the team as well as executives.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• 8+ years of experience in product management or relevant work experience  
• Background in computer science, engineering, HCI
• 3+ years in designing services and APIs for other engineers and teams 
• Knowledge and familiarity with LLMs, AI, GenAI, co-pilot, and other emerging technologies 
• Experience in CI/CD, cloud computing, security
• Excellent analytic aptitude 
• Must be able to assess and address complex business problems and develop and implement solutions to meet market opportunities. 
• Ability to work in a collaborative fashion or independently, a true coach-player mentality
• Strong written communication and oral communication skills and a professional demeanor.
• Strong ability to communicate on a business and technical level
• Insurance, financial, payments or related industry experience