Director of Product, Pie Insurance
$165-210k
+ Equity
Small business insurance
Open for applications
Small business insurance
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$165-210k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make insurance less expensive, simpler, and more transparent for small business owners.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years overall professional experience working on complex business and/or technology problems
- 5+ years Product Management experience working in an agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) environment
- 3+ years experience managing direct reports performing complex knowledge work. Must include at least 1+ years managing product managers
- Advanced communication (written, verbal and presentation) skills, to distill complex information effectively and in alignment with the needs of the audience
- Advanced problem solving skills and track record of demonstrated "first-principles" based thinking. Able to manage complex situations with multiple layers, and resolve to solution anticipating needs now and into the future
- Advanced understanding of continuous product discovery methodologies, including interviews, ethnographic research, job shadowing, passive feedback collection (e.g., surveys, product usage analytics), prototyping, etc
- Advanced awareness of workflow, and project tradeoffs to make decisions based on needs now and into the future
- Advanced leadership knowledge, and ability to build, develop and coach the team and manage the overall group/team workflow to successful deliverables/outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to influence strategic direction
- Advanced understanding of modern software development tools, processes, and architecture patterns; knows how to strike a balance between business needs and the scope of software engineering solutions
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple project deliverables, making decisions and understanding tradeoffs, and create processes for efficiency and effective product delivery for their team and broader cross-functional delivery coalitions
- Demonstrated mastery of synthesizing understanding of a given market in terms of key user segments and value sizing, jobs to be done, competitive offerings, and target opportunities for differentiated value creation
- Mastery of quantitative analysis across all areas of the business
- High level skillset in program management tools, and project mapping
- High level technical skills and mastery of the industry to mitigate complicated issues and manage multiple complex deliverables simultaneously
- G-Suite Tools, Collaboration tools (slack is preferred), basic office machines, Atlassian SDLC suite (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
- Proficient with Looker or other relevant analytics tools
- Remote team members must live and work in the United States* (*territories excluded), and have access to reliable, high-speed internet
What the job involves
- The Director of Product is responsible for identifying, validating, and driving business impact across a portfolio of business and/or technology domains through developing and deploying computer software
- They internalize the company's strategy, identify how their product portfolio can best support the company's goals, and guide high-quality execution to achieve business impacts
- Key responsibilities in this position include building business plans using research and analysis that drive investment decisions, developing a growing team of product managers to execute on the vision for the product, and driving cross-functional alignment on prioritization and impact for product initiatives
- Critical thinking & problem solving
- Develop 12+ month product strategy across their portfolio of products (e.g., decision-making frameworks, systematic problem exploration, outcome definition and measurement) and coaches others on how to do the same
- Builds and continuously reinforces deep insurance and business domain expertise, with a strong command of the end-to-end value chain of Pie's business. Proactively seeks & stays close to user sentiment and feedback trends, along with broader competitive landscape and industry trends
- Proactively recognizing when processes or goals are misaligned with high-value outcomes, and taking corrective actions
- Understands technical fundamentals of how multiple product and/or business domains interact, anticipates potential conflicts or synergies, and takes action to mitigate risk or maximize value
- Ensures their teams have quantitative and qualitative processes for capturing feedback, and regularly get close to users / problems
- Makes complex decisions with minimal oversight, acting as the primary product leader accountable for decision-making, quality-control, and results delivery for their domain of ownership
- Cross-functional execution
- Creates alignment around shared objectives and facilitates adoption of enabling work among other teams; monitors progress and proactively addresses misalignment
- Recognizes and proactively communicates when expectations must be shifted, priorities adjusted, etc. to better optimize for overall business value
- Guides their team to set clear and ambitious goals that drive significant business value; accepts responsibility for team performance and outcomes, regardless of circumstances
- Refining product strategy into relevant suite of impacts that align cross-functional execution with key business outcomes; works with team members to refine and evolve measures over time
- Optimizes speed-to-value across their product domain by creatively addressing dependencies, removing blockers, and maintaining focus on a manageable set of priorities
- People Management
- Attracting, recruiting and evaluating Product, Engineering, and Design talent as part of hiring panels
- Regular meetings with direct reports to provide coaching, feedback, and guidance (1x1s, development meetings, problem-solving sessions)
- Formal performance management processes including calibrations, written performance summaries, etc
- Influencing and Communication
- Building high-trust relationships with senior leaders across the business to serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner
- Evangelizing a compelling vision for their product domain to educate and inspire buy-in across the organization
- Distilling complex information across multiple domains into a synthesized, well-supported structure that informs and makes the case for action
- Facilitating or leading large cross-functional meetings with stakeholders of any seniority level
Our take
Historically, it’s been extremely cumbersome to qualify, onboard and manage workers’ comp insurance, particularly for America’s small businesses which haven’t been prioritized by larger carriers. That’s left small businesses often stranded with expensive and low-quality coverage.
Pie Insurance is changing all that though its technology-first model. Using data and analytics to better comprehend risk and speed up the decision making process, it reduces the time to make an underwriting decision to a few minutes. Facing only legacy competition in an industry ripe for disruption, Pie Insurance has enjoyed rapid growth and received significant investment funding from backers in the InsurTech space.
Having recently acquired a nationally licensed insurance company, Pie Insurance is now able to directly issue its own policies nation-wide. Currently available in 38 states, it will be aiming to expand its operations into the remaining states and territories to provide insurance to small businesses across the entire USA.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2022
$315m
SERIES D
Mar 2021
$118m
SERIES C
Total funding: $620.3m
Company benefits
- A piece of the pie (in the form of equity)
- Comprehensive health plans
- Generous PTO, including paid sick leave
- Future focused 401k match
- Generous parental and caregiver leave
- Our core values are more than just a poster on the wall; they’re tangibly reflected in our work
- Parental leave
- Caregiver leave
- HSA and Health FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Pet insurance
Company values
- Integrity | Do the right thing when no one is watching and treat everyone with respect
- Ownership | Put the best interest of the company first and get things done with urgency
- Simplicity | “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” -Albert Einstein
- Service | Take care of our customers always; if it serves small business, it serves Pie
Company HQ
Connecticut Ave/ K Street, Washington, DC
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Leadership
Dax Craig
(President)MD of 11x Holdings which invests in commercial and residential real estate. Also Co-founded Valen Analytics, data and analytics provider for property and casualty insurance.
John Swigart
(CEO)Previously CMO for RapidFinance. Also worked as CMO for Esurance, starting off as VP of Finance in 2000.
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