Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform and is positioned to be the best partner to help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. We offer differentiated products and services, with homeowners insurance at the center of this relationship. We differentiate and look to win in the massive and growing homeowners insurance opportunity by
1) providing the best services for homebuyers
2) led by advantaged underwriting in insurance
3) to protect the whole home
As a leader in the home services software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) space, we’ve built deep relationships with approximately 30 thousand companies that are key to the home-buying transaction, such as home inspectors, mortgage companies, and title companies.
In 2020, Porch Group rang the Nasdaq bell and began trading under the ticker symbol PRCH. We are looking to build a truly great company and are JUST GETTING STARTED.
Job Title: Senior Technology Product Manager
Location: India
Workplace Type: Remote
Job Summary
Porch is looking for a customer-centered and data-driven Sr. Technology Product Manager for our Insurance Policy Administration System, BriteCore. With Insurance Agents and multiple internal teams as your customers, this position plays a crucial role in driving successful growth and operational efficiency, while creating technical competitive advantages. Our team is focused on leveraging modern technologies, including AI and ML models, as we implement new products, pricing and underwriting strategies and manage loss ratios. If you thrive in ambitious and creative environments, come be part of our rapidly growing, fast-paced company looking to revolutionize the insurance industry.
What You Will Do As A Senior Technology Product Manager
- Business Acumen: Create and implement product strategies and plans that align with business goals and drive growth, intimately understand the industry and the competitive landscape, and help the business to identify and prioritize opportunities to generate performance improvements
- Technical and Product Expertise: Understand the business value of advanced technical capabilities (e.g. AI/ML, AR) and maintain deep expertise for the policy administration system and its entire, complex tech ecosystem
- Senior Leadership Partnership: Partner with senior leadership to align product strategy with business objectives and ensure executive alignment
- Product Roadmap Ownership: Develop and execute a Policy Administration System configuration roadmap that layers up to impact goals across multiple teams
- Customer Advocacy: Advocate for a customer-centric user experience, ensuring our systems effectively resolve the most important wants, pains, and needs
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Use data and first-party research to derive insights and deeply understand our stakeholders’ most significant problems and drive product decisions
- Product Implementation: Work closely with configuration and engineering teams to define technical solutions, configuration requirements, and ensure feasibility. Act as clear owner for delivery, managing project plans, dependencies, communications, risk management, launch planning, etc.
- Market Analysis: Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and threats
- Performance Monitoring: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure the success of the policy administration system
- Sprint Planning: Guide prioritization of work backlog to balance routine projects, support requests, and larger enhancement initiatives
- Compliance and Security: Ensure compliance with industry regulations and security standards
- Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for improvement and drive initiatives to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to gather requirements, quantify opportunities, and resolve conflicting objectives
- Knowledge Base Ownership: Own and maintain the team's knowledge base, ensuring documentation is up-to-date and accessible
- Communication: Provide regular updates to senior management and stakeholders on product status, milestones, and planning.
What You Will Bring As A Senior Technology Product Manager
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Actuarial Science, or equivalent experience
- Strong understanding of policy administration systems and the P&C insurance industry
- 8+ years of experience in product management, including using customer centric and prioritization frameworks and partnering with senior leadership stakeholders
- Proven track record of successfully managing complex technology ecosystems, including nurturing software initiatives from idea to launch
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills
- Ability to conduct first party research, analyze data, draw insights, and make data-driven decisions, including ROI evaluations
- Experience with both agile methodologies, waterfall project management, and work management tools (JIRA, Workfront, Asana, Monday, etc.)
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Proven experience working with US based business teams
- Excellent written and communication skills in English language.
- Ability to work within core US business hours / time zone expectations - Eastern Standard Time (EST) overlap
- Workspace: A quiet space to work, an internet connection of at least 30 Mbps download | 10 Mbps upload
The application window for this position is anticipated to close in 2 weeks (10 business days) from February 28th. Please know this may change based on business and interviewing needs.
What You Will Get As A Porch Group Team Member
Our benefits package will provide you with comprehensive coverage for your health, life, and financial well-being.
- Our benefits include medical insurance, accident insurance and retiral benefits.
- Our wellness programs include 12 company-paid holidays, 2 flexible holidays, privilege/earned leave, casual/sick leave, paid maternity and paternity Leaves, and weekly wellness events.
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What’s next?
Submit your application below and our Talent Acquisition team will be reviewing your application shortly! If your resume gets us intrigued, we will look to connect with you for a chat to learn more about your background, and then possibly invite you to have virtual interviews. What's important to call out is that we want to make sure not only that you're the right person for us, but also that we're the right next step for you, so come prepared with all the questions you have!
Porch is committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives that encourage new ways of solving problems, so we strive to attract and develop talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard and empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.
Porch is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.