Senior Product Manager, Insurance Products

About the role

We are seeking a seasoned Senior Product Manager to own Hippo’s Insurance Products charter. This includes the rating and pricing engine, coverage and eligibility logic, business rules, and the core infrastructure that powers how we price and structure risk. This role combines platform ownership with direct P&L impact, setting the multi-year direction for our insurance product infrastructure while driving day-to-day execution.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi-year product strategy and vision for Hippo’s Insurance Products platform.
• Identify opportunities to modernize and scale the platform in ways that directly improve speed-to-market, profitability, and risk mitigation.
• Influence and shape company-level prioritization decisions for the Insurance Products platform, building alignment across product, engineering, and business leadership without direct authority.
• Stay ahead of market, regulatory, and competitive trends – translating them into a roadmap that keeps Hippo’s insurance products competitive.
• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for the Insurance Products platform: discovery, prioritization, requirements, delivery, and post-launch monitoring.
• Lead the execution of large, cross-functional initiatives, including compliance and regulatory changes, partnering with Insurance, Legal/Compliance, Operations, and Engineering to deliver on time with clear risk mitigation and auditability.
• Translate insights into crisp requirements (PRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria) and partner closely with Engineering, Design, and Data to ship high-quality, platform-level solutions.
• Drive measurable outcomes – define success metrics and KPIs, instrument product changes, analyze impact, and iterate based on results.
• Serve as the primary bridge between Insurance, Legal/Compliance, and Operations business teams and the Engineering organization – deeply understanding business needs and enabling tech to meet them.
• Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders, earning trust through consistent delivery, clear communication, and a genuine understanding of insurance and risk.
• Establish a strong operating cadence: prioritization frameworks, stakeholder alignment, launch readiness, training/comms, and performance tracking.
• Communicate strategy, tradeoffs, and outcomes to leadership with clear narratives grounded in data and customer impact.
• Enable the evolution of Hippo’s rating, pricing, and business rules infrastructure – enabling faster, safer, and more auditable changes to insurance product logic.
• Identify and lead large-scale improvements to core infrastructural platforms, improving speed-to-market for product changes through tooling, process improvements, and automation.
• Partner with Engineering to shorten the feedback loop between product decisions and production deployment across the platform.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in product management, including full ownership of the product backlog and leading the end-to-end software development lifecycle in collaboration with a team of at least four engineers, delivering impactful and user-focused solutions.
• Proven track record of owning or building platform-level products – rules engines, pricing/rating engines, configuration systems, or similar core infrastructure – and leading large-scale improvements to them.
• You understand how these systems work and what it takes to evolve them safely at scale.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams and delivering high-impact products, with the ability to inspire and motivate a team to achieve ambitious goals.
• Strong stakeholder management skills – proven ability to earn trust across business, technical, and executive audiences, and to navigate competing priorities with clarity and conviction.
• Data-driven decision making with strong analytical skills. Comfortable defining success metrics, analyzing results, and iterating with discipline.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to clearly articulate product strategies, goals, and roadmaps to diverse audiences, including senior executives, engineers, designers, and customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance/Accounting, Computer Science, or a related field.

Skills

• Product management experience in insurance, financial services, or an adjacent industry.
• Experience with customer engagement platforms, such as Customer.io and Braze.
• Experience with AI or automation tooling applied to configuration, pricing, or rules-based systems.

Benefits and Perks

• Healthy Hippos Benefits — Multiple medical plans to choose from and 100% employer-covered dental & vision plans for our team members and their families.
• 401(k)-retirement plan, short & long-term disability, employer-paid life insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for health and dependent care, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Equity — This position is eligible for equity compensation.
• Training and career growth opportunities.
• Flexible Time Off — You know when and how you should recharge.
• Little Hippos Program — We offer 12 weeks of parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
• Hippo Habitat — Snacks and drinks available and catered lunches for onsite employees.

Pay

The Morristown, NJ and San Francisco Bay Area base pay range for this role is $124,000.00 - $186,000.00. Exact compensation may vary based on several job-related factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to: skill set, experience, education/training, location, business needs and market demands.

Schedule

Hybrid schedule available.