Zinnia - Director - Product Management (12-15 yrs)
Zinnia
posted 6d ago
Fixed timing
Who We Are:
- Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth.
- With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products.
- All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures.
- Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value and that we do.
-Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.
Who You Are:
- As the Director of Product Management, you will lead a team of product managers, drive product vision and roadmap, and align cross-functional teams to deliver world-class InsurTech solutions.
- Youll partner closely with engineering, underwriting, claims, compliance, and go-to-market teams to ensure our products deliver value to customers and meet business goals.
What Youll Do:
- Strategic Leadership: Own and communicate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our InsurTech platform.
- Team Management: Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of product managers.
- Customer-Centric Approach: Deeply understand customer needs and pain points through market research, and usage data.
- Execution & Delivery: Collaborate with engineering, design, and data teams to define requirements, prioritize backlogs, and ensure timely delivery of features.
- Cross-functional Alignment: Work with sales, marketing, legal, compliance, and operations to launch and support products in a regulated environment.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Use analytics and KPIs to drive product decisions, track performance, and improve outcomes.
- Domain Expertise: Stay current on trends in the insurance industry, regulatory changes, and competitive landscape to inform product strategy.
What Youll Need:
- 12+ years of product management experience, with at least 3+ years in a leadership role.
- Proven experience building and scaling digital products in a regulated industry, ideally insurance, InsurTech, or FinTech.
- Bachelors/Master's Degree in technology or related field.
- Experience working with API-driven platforms and integrating with third-party data sources or partners.
- Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
- Technical fluencyable to engage with engineering teams on architecture, APIs, and data models.
- Strong analytical mindset with experience using tools like SQL, Looker, Tableau, etc.
- Experience in delivering Cloud Native, Modern Tech Stacks and Customer/Sales Channel facing products.
- Expert level experience in delivery methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and the use of relevant tools.
- Ability to foster teamwork, build collaborative teams, and develop and mentor others.
- Ability to work independently with advanced strategic thinking skills.
- Must be able to travel on need basis, to meet clients/attending events.
7-10 Yrs