Program Manager, Rater & API Strategy

About the role

Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform positioned to be the best partner to help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. The company offers differentiated products and services with homeowners insurance at the center of this relationship. As a leader in the home services SaaS space, Porch Group has built deep relationships with approximately 30 thousand companies key to the home‑buying transaction, such as home inspectors, mortgage companies, and title companies. The role is based in the United States and is fully remote.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and drive execution for getting new products, states, and brands live on comparative rater platforms (EZLynx, PL Rater, Bolt, and similar) in a timely fashion, treating launch speed as a direct driver of new business growth.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all rater and direct-agency integration issues, escalations, and migration requests — triaging, prioritizing, and driving them to resolution across engineering, product, and distribution.
• Own the strategy and roadmap for migrating comparative raters and large directly-integrated agencies from point-to-point connections onto the Gateway API, sequencing migrations by business impact, technical readiness, and risk.
• Partner with the API Product Manager and Engineering Manager to translate launch and migration roadmaps into scoped, sequenced engineering work, ensuring requirements reflect real-world rater and agency workflows.
• Work closely with Distribution leaders to align launch and migration timing, minimize disruption to active business, and coordinate communication with external partners.
• Run regular, proactive relationship touchpoints with rater partners and large directly-integrated agencies to surface pain points ahead of escalation, negotiate timelines, and identify opportunities to expand or improve connectivity.
• Join National Partner calls as the technical face of the team — partnering with partner engineers and product teams, and presenting directly to agents, to ensure the best eligible rate is being displayed.
• Define and track program-level KPIs including time-to-live,