NEXT's mission is to help entrepreneurs thrive by building the only technology-led, full-stack provider of small business insurance in the industry, taking on the entire value chain and transforming the customer experience. The company is seeking an Insurance Product Manager to lead their Casualty insurance product management team, with primary responsibility for developing and managing General Liability and Excess Casualty products across a broad range of business classes, aiming to drive profitable growth.
Requirements
- 10+ years of Casualty insurance experience (underwriting, product, actuarial, or related), with emphasis on General Liability.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with ability to translate insights into actionable strategies.
- Proven ability to identify opportunities, build business cases, and drive product planning and execution.
- Skilled at articulating strategy and performance to both technical and executive stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Manage profitability, growth, and risk profile of the Casualty portfolio (GL and Excess Casualty).
- Develop tools/models to analyze loss performance, rate adequacy, and segmentation strategies.
- Use data-driven insights to refine and optimize appetite, coverage, and pricing structures & logic.
- Monitor market trends, customer feedback, and performance data to drive improvements and competitiveness.
- Lead end-to-end development of new casualty insurance products and enhancements.
- Partner with engineering, technical product, legal, compliance, actuarial, and data science teams on delivery and maintenance of compliant and scalable insurance solutions.
- Coordinate new filings, form updates, and regulatory initiatives with Legal and Compliance.
Other
- Lead and mentor a team of Insurance Product Managers, fostering professional growth and ensuring strong cross-functional execution.
- Deliver product updates and performance reports to senior leadership.
- Act as subject matter expert, representing the Casualty portfolio to external and internal stakeholders, including senior leadership.
- Established success in building high-performing teams, and leading and developing people.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, creative in building solutions, and rigorous in execution.
- Highly organized and capable of managing multiple workstreams across multiple functions.
- BA/BS degree; advanced degree (MBA, MS) or insurance certifications (e.g., CPCU, ARM) are a plus.
