Product Management Director – NYC

Do you love building and managing data products? Does managing a team that expands your ability to drive innovation excite you?  Do you want to help customers solve their most challenging risk and insurance problems? Do you love working with partners? If so, Advisen is looking for you to direct our product management function from our New York office!

Advisen’s Product Vision is to be the most trusted data provider informing commercial / specialty risk and insurance decisions. We will deliver valuable content with high integrity that integrates seamlessly into client workflows. We will collaborate with clients to create an exceptional user experience.

We are looking for a product management leader with strong technical and analytical skills, deep background in commercial specialty risk and insurance issues and excellent communication skills. The Product Manager is an internal and external evangelist for Advisen’s products. As the leader of Advisen’s product management activities, you will drive our roadmap and work with the world’s leading specialty risk databases to power deeper integration of Advisen’s data with our broker, insurer and modelling customers. You will partner with client management team to discover our customers’ and partners’ needs and use cases. Working with the development, data analysis and loss teams you will build creative solutions that address these needs. This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of the industry

Your Role

While reporting to the Executive Vice President of Data, some of the things you’ll be doing include:

  • Research and understand the trends of the commercial / specialty risk and insurance landscape. Translate the implications of these trends into actionable requirements for development.
  • Help define the product strategy and roadmap for supporting existing and new data services and features.
  • Deliver vision and requirement documents with prioritized features and corresponding justification.
  • Work with data and development teams to prioritize and drive feature specification and design (both internally as well as externally with partners).
  • Define, promote and execute best practices for Integrated Release Processes that develop high value products
  • Direct Advisen’s overall product management function
  • Present Advisen’s product capabilities, vision, value propositions, and roadmap briefings to internal and external customers, prospects and at conferences.
  • Participate with strategic customers as a trusted advisor to ensure their success, requirements analysis and product planning activities.
  • Collaborate with marketing on positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategies.
  • Maintain an attention to detail and an eye for quality.

Who you are

  • Educated: You have a bachelor’s or Master’s degree from a highly respected academic institution is preferred.
  • Experienced: You have at least 8 years of experience in technical product management with a focus on application of data.
  • Domain: You have deep experience with data and its application in risk and insurance.
  • Excellent Communication: You have the ability to communicate both business and technical topics to diverse audiences.
  • A Leader: You drive the overall Product Management team to excel in supporting Advisen’s Product Vision
  • An Influencer: You lead Integrated Release Processes harnessing diverse skills and perspectives from throughout the organization to drive innovation.
  • Collaborative: Work with clients to make sure they have the right information and insights to make the best decisions.
  • Technically Savvy: Able to go deep into risk and insurance issues and relate product to customer use cases.
  • Evangelistic: As the evangelist for the Advisen’s products, you will be tasked with presenting your priorities to internal and external parties
  • Data Rockstar: Must have a strong desire to help people understand and use data

About Advisen

Advisen is the leading provider of data, media, and technology solutions for the commercial property and casualty insurance market. Advisen’s proprietary data sets and applications focus on large, specialty risks. Through Web Connectivity Ltd., Advisen provides messaging services, business consulting, and technical solutions to streamline and automate insurance transactions. Advisen connects a community of more than 200,000 professionals through daily newsletters, conferences, and webinars. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York City, with offices in the US and the UK.

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