Director, Product Management - Property & Specialty Underwriting Application Suite

About the role

The Director, Product Management - Property & Specialty Underwriting Application Suite role at Moody's is responsible for representing the company across various insurance, reinsurance, E&S/MGA, and ILS communities. This includes contributing to industry conversations and supporting modernization across the underwriting lifecycle, including primary underwriting and E&S/MGA workflows.

Responsibilities

• Represent Moody’s across insurance, reinsurance, E&S/MGA, and ILS communities through industry forums, client meetings, conferences, committees, working groups, and thought leadership activities
• Partner with senior leaders to contribute to industry conversations and support modernization across the underwriting lifecycle, including primary underwriting and E&S/MGA workflows
• Execute on the platform and cross-application architecture vision defined by senior leadership, supporting interoperability, scalability, modularity, and shared capabilities across the Moody’s risk ecosystem
• Collaborate with platform engineering, architecture, data, and product leaders on APIs, shared services, data contracts, reusable frameworks, and components powering multiple products
• Help develop, validate, and deliver innovative product concepts and market-differentiating capabilities using AI/ML, pricing engines, exposure enrichment, digital placement, portfolio analytics, PoCs, and partner pilots
• Lead and coach a team of product managers, providing day-to-day direction, establishing clear OKRs, and building a culture of technical excellence, client-centric thinking, and thoughtful execution
• Support cohesive cross-product delivery across Intelligent Risk Platform applications, ensuring seamless user experiences, data flow, prioritization, roadmap alignment, and execution frameworks
• Drive adoption, retention, product growth, commercialization inputs, positioning, pricing frameworks, and expansion into emerging and global markets, including E&S, specialty, and capital-linked risk

Requirements

10 years extensive product management experience within insurance technology, underwriting analytics, SaaS platforms, or reinsurance digital transformation, with strong knowledge of underwriting, pricing, placement, and specialty risk workflows, 3+ years leading product teams or workstreams

Deep understanding of the insurance, reinsurance, E&S/MGA, ILS, and specialty risk ecosystems, including primary underwriting, E&S/MGA distribution, reinsurance placement, and capital-linked risk

Strong industry presence or engagement through thought leadership, articles, blog posts, panel participation, conference attendance or speaking, and involvement in relevant industry associations or committees

Proven ability to support platform modernization, multi-product delivery, and cross-application architecture across scalable SaaS and risk ecosystem solutions

Strong technical acumen with working knowledge of APIs, shared services, data contracts, modular architecture, reusable frameworks, and shared components across product platforms

Experience supporting innovation through AI/ML, pricing engines, exposure enrichment, digital placement, portfolio analytics, PoCs, accelerators, partner pilots, and emerging product capabilities

Demonstrated ability to engage senior stakeholders, including Chief Underwriting Officers, CIOs, innovation leaders, brokers, reinsurers, engineering leaders, and go-to-market partners

Strong leadership, communication, analytical, and execution skills, with the ability to coach product teams, set OKRs, influence roadmap decisions, and drive measurable commercial impact

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree, MBA, or relevant insurance, actuarial, technology, or product management certifications are a plus.

Skills

• Extensive product management experience within insurance technology, underwriting analytics, SaaS platforms, or reinsurance digital transformation
• Strong knowledge of underwriting, pricing, placement, and specialty risk workflows
• Industry presence or engagement through thought leadership, articles, blog posts, panel participation, conference attendance or speaking, and involvement in relevant industry associations or committees
• Ability to support platform modernization, multi-product delivery, and cross-application architecture across scalable SaaS and risk ecosystem solutions
• Working knowledge of APIs, shared services, data contracts, modular architecture, reusable frameworks, and shared components across product platforms
• Experience supporting innovation through AI/ML, pricing engines, exposure enrichment, digital placement, portfolio analytics, PoCs, accelerators, partner pilots, and emerging product capabilities
• Ability to engage senior stakeholders, including Chief Underwriting Officers, CIOs, innovation leaders, brokers, reinsurers, engineering leaders, and go-to-market partners
• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, and execution skills, with the ability to coach product teams, set OKRs, influence roadmap decisions, and drive measurable commercial impact

Benefits

Competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.

Pay

The anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $171,100.00 - $248,050.00, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location. This range is based on a full-time position. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for incentive compensation.

Schedule

Remote, United States