Product Manager with P&C Insurance

Title: Product Manager with P&C Insurance -Underwriting Workstation Exp1. Product Strategy & RoadmapDefine and communicate the product vision and strategy for the Appian Underwriting Workstation.Develop and maintain a detailed product roadmap aligned with underwriting goals and digital transformation objectives.Translate business objectives into clear, actionable product initiatives and backlogs.Be cognizant of the key IT and Business objectives and timelines when proposing solutions and attempt for minimum viable products for faster realization of ROI.2. Stakeholder Engagement:Act as the voice of the customer (underwriters, operations, compliance) to gather, analyze, and prioritize needs.Collaborate with underwriting leadership to ensure the solution meets evolving risk selection and workflow requirements.Liaise with IT, QA, legal, compliance, and third-party vendors to align goals and timelines.Ensure all key assumptions, risks, issues, and dependencies are tracked in a timely and transparent manner that impact the triple constraint of cost, scope and schedule.3. Requirement Gathering & Documentation:Lead discovery sessions and workshops to capture functional and non-functional requirements.Create detailed user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, and process flows.Work closely with Appian developers to translate business needs into low-code applications.Define shift-left execution model, estimation approach, delivery agile model tailored to the needs and objectives of the client.4. Product Development Lifecycle:Serve as the Product Owner in Agile ceremonies: backlog grooming, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.Prioritize features, bugs, and technical debt in the product backlog and track the progress through key metrics like aging, business impact.Approve deliverables and ensure successful sprint execution and incremental releases.5. User Experience & Change Management:Define and optimize user journeys for underwriters, ensuring usability and performance.Partner with UX/UI designers to drive intuitive, user-friendly interfaces.Support training, documentation, and change management activities to ensure adoption.6. Quality & Compliance:Ensure that the workstation complies with regulatory and internal audit requirements.Validate that workflows support underwriting rules, scoring models, and approval authority matrices.Support testing phases, including UAT, to validate functionality against business expectations.7. Metrics & Continuous Improvement:Define and monitor business and delivery KPIs / SLAs (e.g., underwriting turnaround time, user satisfaction, automation rate, aging of defects, story points per sprint).Be adept with different engagement models like fixed cost, fixed capacity, and managed services.Gather feedback post-deployment and iterate for continuous improvement.Stay informed of Appian platform updates and emerging technologies in underwriting automation.Understand the impact of various Appian upgrades and the impact of the same on the overall program deliverables.8. Skills & Competencies:Strong knowledge of underwriting processes (P&C or Life insurance).Experience with Appian BPM/low-code platform.Agile/Scrum Product management experience.Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.Ability to translate complex business needs into technical requirements.9. Preferred Background:Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science, or related field.12+ years of overall experience and last 3 years as a Product Manager or Product Owner and a minimum of 7+ years of experience in coding/ programming.Experience with low-code platforms (Appian preferred).Familiarity with underwriting rules engines, rating systems, or third-party data integrations (e.g., LexisNexis, ISO, ACORD).P&C Insurance certification (such as CPCU, AINS etc.. are preferred)About ValueMomentum:At ValueMomentum’s Technology Center, we are a team of passionate engineers who thrive on tackling complex business challenges with innovative solutions while transforming the P&C insurance value chain. We achieve this through strong engineering foundation and continuously refining our processes, methodologies, tools, agile delivery teams, and core engineering archetypes. Our core expertise lies in six key areas: Cloud Engineering, Application Engineering, Data Engineering, Core Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Domain expertise