Product Strategist
We are seeking a Life and Annuities (L&A) Product Strategist to join our Product Management team. In this pivotal role, you will own the definition and strategy for our core Life and Annuities platform services — including quoting, underwriting, policy administration, cash management, and investment management modules. You will translate deep L&A domain knowledge into scalable, configurable platform capabilities that enable success for our clients worldwide. This is a hands-on, detail-driven role requiring creativity, technical acumen, strong collaboration, and an innovative mindset. Success means bridging the complex world of L&A insurance with cutting-edge platform technology and working closely across product, engineering, design, and market-facing teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and champion a compelling product vision and strategy for L&A core services.
- Create and maintain a prioritized roadmap aligned to strategic objectives, market opportunities, and customer needs.
- Lead the development and communication of detailed product requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Analyze the competitive landscape and identify key gaps and opportunities for EIS offerings.
- Collaborate with engineering, architecture, UX/UI design, sales, and customer success teams throughout the product lifecycle.
- Gather, synthesize, and leverage market intelligence, customer feedback, and usage data to inform product direction.
- Engage directly with clients and internal stakeholders to understand needs, translate them into roadmap initiatives, and drive consensus.
- Partner with product marketing and sales enablement to define positioning, messaging, and value propositions.
- Support market-facing activities through product expertise and sales collateral development.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- 10+ years of professional experience, with at least:
- 5+ years in the insurance industry (preferably Life and Annuities).
- 5+ years working with insurance technology platforms or transformation initiatives.
- 4+ years of direct exposure to Life and Annuity processes and systems.
- Demonstrated success defining product strategy and launching complex software products or platforms (ideally SaaS or cloud-native).
- Strong understanding of Policy Administration Systems (PAS), billing, claims, cash/treasury management, or investment accounting within insurance.
- Exceptional strategic thinking, decision-making, and analytical skills.
- Ability to develop business cases, size market opportunities, and prioritize initiatives based on data-driven insights.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
- Proven ability to influence and build consensus across distributed, global, cross-functional teams.
- Self-starter with a proactive attitude and strong sense of ownership.
- Comfortable balancing strategic planning with day-to-day tactical execution.
Job Benefits
- Work with top talent and great colleagues who are industry and technology experts. Operate in a Scaled Agile environment, diverse, multicultural and cross-functional teams
- We are a global and modern software product company building world-class Enterprise InsurtTech Product powered by leading-edge technologies (microservices, reactive, cloud, continuous delivery)
- We offer freedom - build from building your career path through development programs and exciting global mobility opportunities (we have a remote and global culture )
- Health insurance and home office utility compensation (the monthly allowance for teleworking)
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