Product Manager – Insurance Technology

Job Title:
Product Manager – Insurance Technology

Location:
Union Beach, NJ (Onsite) – Need Locals or relocation candidates who are open to relocate day one

Duration: 12-18 months Contract

MOI:
Phone/Video (MSTeams)

Recruiter Additional Notes:

Recruiter Focus Notes: A senior-level Product Owner / Product Manager with strong insurance industry expertise who can own product direction while also working hands-on with Agile delivery teams. The ideal candidate can understand complex insurance workflows, turn them into clear requirements and backlog items, facilitate discovery, make prioritization decisions, and communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.

Target level:
Senior Product Owner / Senior Product Manager / Business Product Lead.

Top Recruiting Priorities — Required

7+ years of progressive Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Product Lead, or similar experience delivering software/digital products.

Strong insurance domain knowledge, including insurance operations and terminology.

Proven product strategy, vision, roadmap, and value-delivery experience.

Strong ability to translate complex business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, business rules, and functional requirements.

Hands-on product backlog ownership and prioritization in an Agile/Scrum environment.

Strong stakeholder leadership and facilitation, including business leadership, users, engineering, QA, architects, and SMEs.

Working knowledge of data mapping, transformation rules, APIs, error handling, exception management, and retry mechanisms.

Working proficiency with AI tools, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio or comparable tools.

Niche combination to prioritize:
Candidates combining senior product ownership + deep insurance domain knowledge + hands-on Agile backlog/requirements management + understanding of data/integration concepts.

Job Description:

Senior Product Owner – Insurance Technology

Position Overview

Drive the vision and delivery of digital products that improve the experience and effectiveness of employees, clients, and business partners within the insurance environment. This role combines strategic product management with hands-on product ownership, translating complex insurance workflows and business needs into actionable requirements for cross-functional technology teams.

The successful candidate will establish product vision and roadmaps, prioritize the backlog, lead discovery and requirements activities, guide Agile delivery, and use customer and business insights to drive continuous product improvement.

What You'll Do

Product Strategy, Vision, and Value

Define and communicate product vision, strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes aligned with business priorities.

Partner with business leaders and users to understand goals, operating processes, pain points, and opportunities.

Evaluate product ideas based on customer impact, business value, cost, risk, technical feasibility, return on investment, and build-versus-buy considerations.

Build stakeholder alignment around product priorities, trade-offs, and release decisions.

Monitor product adoption, performance, and business outcomes to guide ongoing enhancements.

Discovery, Process, and Requirements

Lead discovery workshops and working sessions with business leaders, subject-matter experts, users, architects, developers, data teams, UX, and QA.

Document current-state and future-state workflows, business rules, data needs, integrations, exceptions, dependencies, and control requirements.

Translate product strategy and stakeholder needs into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, and supporting documentation.

Break complex requirements into appropriately sized, testable backlog items while…