Lead Product Development Advisor (Hybrid)

Position Compensation Range:

Pay Rate Type:

Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location. Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.

Primary Accountabilities:

• Lead the development and implementation of innovative products and services, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Understand the small commercial market, product design, offering and appetite.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts and company leaders to implement changes that enhance the customer experience.
• Identify opportunities and threats, providing strategic insights.
• Direct the end-to-end lifecycle of departmental and corporate initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Oversee the implementation of product changes, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the product development team.
• Develop customer product strategies, including segmentation, roadmap development, and product backlog management.
• Collaborate with product management to identify opportunities, manage vendors, and link enterprise services.
• Execute lean/agile product innovation processes, utilizing minimum viable product concepts to test and validate product needs.
• Develop and oversee processes for launching products, services, and enhancements, ensuring compliance and financial viability.
• Identify and develop expansion strategies in partnership with distribution partners to increase market exposure.

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support, or service.
• Demonstrated experience developing insurance product/line of business strategies.
• Extensive knowledge of leveraging customer, market, and competitor intelligence.
• Extensive knowledge and experience with lean innovation, agile or other development/innovation approaches.
• Extensive knowledge of market research and marketplace and regulatory trends.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of product design, pricing and product management.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of advanced financial and data analysis techniques.
• Demonstrated experience leading projects in product development and product management.
• Demonstrated experience with profit and loss accountability.
• Demonstrated experience in driving to results in one or more of the following areas: sales, product lines, claims, or other core business functions.
• Demonstrated experience managing and leading large complex projects or programs with a cross-divisional impact toward intended results.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of root cause analysis and processes.

Additional Specialized Knowledge & Skills

• Proven experience in product development, with a focus on customer-driven solutions.

• Experience with BOP, CPP and Umbrella

• Comprehensive understanding of insurance industry practices, underwriting guidelines, and risk management.

• Ability to make independent decisions and solve complex problems.

Licenses:

• Not applicable.

Travel Requirements:

• Up to 10%.

Physical Requirements:

• Primarily involves sitting/standing.

• Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks

• Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions

• Sponsorship will not be considered for this position unless specified in the posting

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements listed above. Skills can be used in many different ways, and your life and professional experience may be relevant beyond what a list of requirements will capture. We encourage those who are passionate about what we do to apply!

We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.