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Staff Product Manager – Independent Agents
Company | Root |
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Location | Columbus, OH, USA |
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Salary | $150000 – $187000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 7+ years of product management experience; insurance experience a plus.
- Experience in B2B2C product development; independent agent experience a plus.
- Experience with scaling product for rapid growth
- Excellent test and learn practices that drive measurable results for the business.
- Product domain expertise spanning the customer discovery, planning, and product development process; deep understanding of customer-centric product practices.
- Highly analytical; excel at leveraging customer research and analytics to drive product decisions; hands on experience using SQL and python recommended.
- Superior problem-solving skills with ability to think strategically and creatively.
- Detail-oriented; ability to multitask and prioritize projects while ensuring organizational alignment.
- Roll-up-the sleeves work ethic and “do-what-it-takes” attitude to efficiently execute and drive for results in a fast-paced work environment.
- Exceptional leadership skills; naturally collaborative, excelling at influencing without direct authority.
Responsibilities
- Scale our new Independent Agent Platform by creating software that allows for rapid expansion while delivering delightful agent experiences.
- Partner with research and design to better understand customer needs for your strategic product area.
- Advocate for solving our customer needs throughout the product development process.
- Work across product, operations, user experience design, analytics, and core engineering teams to identify the highest-leverage customer and business problems in and around your specific product area.
- Create, manage, and adapt the operating plan and product roadmap.
- Work with business development, sales, and incentive teams to craft products that will achieve product-market fit and motivate agent partners to sell Root products.
- Lead a team of engineers to drive the full product lifecycle, spanning ideation, design, implementation, testing, and iteration.
- Maintain continuous discovery and evaluation of new ideas, insights, and feature candidates.
- Write product requirement documentation (PRDs) that drive alignment between the business strategy and the engineering plans.
- Cultivate a product area backlog with ruthless prioritization using product frameworks.
- Manage dependencies between product areas and find creative ways to bring products to market.
- Facilitate team delivery events using agile delivery practices.
- Understand the health of your product area with data and customer feedback.
Preferred Qualifications
- Insurance experience a plus.
- Independent agent experience a plus.