Product Researcher - Insurance
Matter Intelligence · San Francisco, CA · 3 mo ago
On-siteManagementFull-time
About the role
We are seeking a Product Researcher to lead the development of insurance data-product roadmaps. Your responsibilities include:
- Defining and driving the insurance data-product roadmap
- Working directly with carrier executives and operator teams to understand operational pain points, economics, and adoption barriers
- Translating spectral and geospatial capabilities into clear product specifications, customer-facing outputs, and prioritization decisions
- Prioritizing product development based on insurer workflow impact, data-value creation, implementation feasibility, and commercialization readiness
- Partnering with Business Development on product-market fit and market entry
- Partnering with Deployment to ensure product outputs integrate into real customer workflows and deliver measurable business impact
- Representing the company in industry relevant venues
Requirements
- Deep insurance domain expertise, ideally from building or commercializing data, analytics, or workflow products sold into P&C carriers or built within carriers
- Strong experience in property insurance, preferably homeowners, or commercial property and adjacent lines
- Experience shipping B2B data, analytics, or workflow products or in shipping P&C insurance products within digital environments from concept through launch and iteration
- Strong product judgment and the ability to prioritize ruthlessly in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Executive-level customer credibility and comfort working directly with leaders such as Chief Underwriting Officers, Heads of Product, Chief Technology Officers, or Heads of Claims/ VP of Claims operator executives
- The ability to work cross-functionally with business, technical, and operational teams and drive alignment without heavy process
- Bias to action. We're a 40-person company building category-defining technology. We move fast and figure things out
What We’re Looking For
- You understand how insurance organizations actually make decisions; you know how to take new products from 0-1; you know how to span actuarial, underwriting, claims, and digital products; and you know how to turn messy customer needs into products that teams will buy, trust, and use.
Plus
- Experience with aerial imagery, geospatial data, remote sensing, or computer vision products
- Experience at or alongside companies such as Verisk, CoreLogic, Nearmap, EagleView, Cape Analytics, or similar insurance data providers
- Familiarity with property inspection, underwriting operations, CAT workflows, or claims estimation processes
- Experience turning initial deployment work into standardized product packages and scaled enterprise deployments
Success in 6 Months
- Leverage initial deployment learnings to define ROI framework used in customer conversations
- Help move initial lighthouse customers into scaled deployments together with our Deployment Strategist
- Develop initial product roadmap based on initial lighthouse customer conversations
Location
This is a full-time or part time role based in San Francisco, CA. On-site presence required.
ITAR Requirements
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following: A U.S. citizen or national, A lawful permanent resident (green card holder), Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State