About the role
We are seeking a Life and Annuities (L&A) Product Strategist to join our Product Management team. In this pivotal role, you will own the definition and strategy for our core Life and Annuities platform services — including quoting, underwriting, policy administration, cash management, and investment management modules. You will translate deep L&A domain knowledge into scalable, configurable platform capabilities that enable success for our clients worldwide. This is a hands-on, detail-driven role requiring creativity, technical acumen, strong collaboration, and an innovative mindset. Success means bridging the complex world of L&A insurance with cutting-edge platform technology and working closely across product, engineering, design, and market-facing teams.
Key Responsibilities
* Develop and champion a compelling product vision and strategy for L&A core services. * Create and maintain a prioritized roadmap aligned to strategic objectives, market opportunities, and customer needs. * Lead the development and communication of detailed product requirements and acceptance criteria. * Analyze the competitive landscape and identify key gaps and opportunities for EIS offerings. * Collaborate with engineering, architecture, UX/UI design, sales, and customer success teams throughout the product lifecycle. * Gather, synthesize, and leverage market intelligence, customer feedback, and usage data to inform product direction. * Engage directly with clients and internal stakeholders to understand needs, translate them into roadmap initiatives, and drive consensus. * Partner with product marketing and sales enablement to define positioning, messaging, and value propositions. * Support market-facing activities through product expertise and sales collateral development.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
* 10+ years of professional experience, with at least: * 5+ years in the insurance industry (preferably Life and Annuities). * 5+ years working with insurance technology platforms or transformation initiatives. * 4+ years of direct exposure to Life and Annuity processes and systems. * Demonstrated success defining product strategy and launching complex software products or platforms (ideally SaaS or cloud-native). * Strong understanding of Policy Administration Systems (PAS), billing, claims, cash/treasury management, or investment accounting within insurance. * Exceptional strategic thinking, decision-making, and analytical skills. * Ability to develop business cases, size market opportunities, and prioritize initiatives based on data-driven insights. * Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills. * Proven ability to influence and build consensus across distributed, global, cross-functional teams. * Self-starter with a proactive attitude and strong sense of ownership. * Comfortable balancing strategic planning with day-to-day tactical execution.
Job Benefits
* Work with top talent and great colleagues who are industry and technology experts. Operate in a Scaled Agile environment, diverse, multicultural and cross-functional teams * We are a global and modern software product company building world-class Enterprise InsurtTech Product powered by leading-edge technologies (microservices, reactive, cloud, continuous delivery) * We offer freedom - build from building your career path through development programs and exciting global mobility opportunities (we have a remote and global culture) * Health insurance and home office utility compensation (the monthly allowance for teleworking)
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