Insurance Product Manager
About the company:
Blitz is a new digital-first insurance carrier leveraging technology & data to bring the antiquated $100B market for specialty commercial risks into the modern era. Blitz's fast and simple end-to-end insurance platform displaces the lengthy, manual processes that have frustrated both brokers and business customers since they were last updated 30 years ago. Blitz's platform enables a 100x improvement in broker and customer experience by:
Empowering both parties with simple tools to gather information and receive quotes
- Reducing time to quote from weeks to minutes
- Providing flexibility in product choices and levels of coverage
- Developing innovative insurance solutions pinpointing the needs of historically underserved markets
The company is led by a veteran team of insurance and technology experts and is starting with $35M in funding from its founder & CEO, a Forbes-listed serial entrepreneur in the real estate and insurance industries. Blitz has an ambitious go-to-market schedule of launching multiple new products and markets and projects a high growth trajectory supported by further venture investment.
Responsibilities:
- Identify opportunities to improve coverages, recommend solution alternatives, and coordinate with other areas to implement improvements
- Support research competitors’ forms and appetite across different market verticals
- Leads management of existing products based on core business metrics (e.g., profitability, retention, hit ratio)
- Collaborates closely with technical product management and engineering to ensure accurate implementation of insurance product requirements
- Underwrite complex underwriting referrals and exceptions to the core guidelines and use learnings to optimize the underwriting algorithm
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of related insurance experience in P&C commercial lines in underwriting, analytics or actuarial related roles
- Effective organization and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure and adhere to project deadlines
- Ability to learn new applications and systems and process complex data from multiple sources to create analyses and reports
- Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills
- Strong technical skills with proficiency in Excel, PowerBI, SQL
- Ability to work remotely with a high level of self-motivation
- Excellent written and verbal skills- ability to work in a team environment
