Director, Product Management - Property & Specialty Underwriting Application Suite

Moody's Corporation is a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment, transforming how the world sees risk. They are seeking a Director of Product Management to lead product teams and drive innovation in insurance technology, focusing on underwriting and pricing workflows to enhance client experiences and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Represent Moody’s across insurance, reinsurance, E&S/MGA, and ILS communities through industry forums, client meetings, conferences, committees, working groups, and thought leadership activities
• Partner with senior leaders to contribute to industry conversations and support modernization across the underwriting lifecycle, including primary underwriting and E&S/MGA workflows
• Execute on the platform and cross-application architecture vision defined by senior leadership, supporting interoperability, scalability, modularity, and shared capabilities across the Moody’s risk ecosystem
• Collaborate with platform engineering, architecture, data, and product leaders on APIs, shared services, data contracts, reusable frameworks, and components powering multiple products
• Help develop, validate, and deliver innovative product concepts and market-differentiating capabilities using AI/ML, pricing engines, exposure enrichment, digital placement, portfolio analytics, PoCs, and partner pilots
• Lead and coach a team of product managers, providing day-to-day direction, establishing clear OKRs, and building a culture of technical excellence, client-centric thinking, and thoughtful execution
• Support cohesive cross-product delivery across Intelligent Risk Platform applications, ensuring seamless user experiences, data flow, prioritization, roadmap alignment, and execution frameworks
• Drive adoption, retention, product growth, commercialization inputs, positioning, pricing frameworks, and expansion into emerging and global markets, including E&S, specialty, and capital-linked risk

Requirements:

• 10 years extensive product management experience within insurance technology, underwriting analytics, SaaS platforms, or reinsurance digital transformation, with strong knowledge of underwriting, pricing, placement, and specialty risk workflows, 3+ years leading product teams or workstreams
• Deep understanding of the insurance, reinsurance, E&S/MGA, ILS, and specialty risk ecosystems, including primary underwriting, E&S/MGA distribution, reinsurance placement, and capital-linked risk
• Strong industry presence or engagement through thought leadership, articles, blog posts, panel participation, conference attendance or speaking, and involvement in relevant industry associations or committees
• Proven ability to support platform modernization, multi-product delivery, and cross-application architecture across scalable SaaS and risk ecosystem solutions
• Strong technical acumen with working knowledge of APIs, shared services, data contracts, modular architecture, reusable frameworks, and shared components across product platforms
• Experience supporting innovation through AI/ML, pricing engines, exposure enrichment, digital placement, portfolio analytics, PoCs, accelerators, partner pilots, and emerging product capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to engage senior stakeholders, including Chief Underwriting Officers, CIOs, innovation leaders, brokers, reinsurers, engineering leaders, and go-to-market partners
• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, and execution skills, with the ability to coach product teams, set OKRs, influence roadmap decisions, and drive measurable commercial impact
• Bachelor's degree required
• advanced degree, MBA, or relevant insurance, actuarial, technology, or product management certifications are a plus