Principal Product Manager - CoreCONNECT Platform

Sureify is on a mission to modernize the life insurance and annuity industry with their CoreCONNECT platform. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the API expansion and create a robust API suite for life and annuity carriers, focusing on strategic impact and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Define the long-term roadmap for external-facing APIs from CoreCONNECT ensuring they don't just meet technical standards but provide a competitive edge for carriers
• Define how external APIs evolve into and alongside our CoreCONNECT platform, enabling carriers and partners to build differentiated experiences on top of a flexible, extensible API layer
• Seed the market for an emerging product area by working with marketing, sales, and potential customers
• Serve as Sureify’s representative and thought leader in industry working groups shaping IRI Digital First for Annuities standards, influencing how carriers, distributors, and vendors define and adopt modern annuity APIs
• Engage deeply with carriers and distributors to understand the friction points in the current ecosystem and how our APIs can solve them
• Author clear, actionable specs for complex API workflows that account for high configurability requirements
• Partner closely with engineering to build a high-performance, scalable API layer. You’ll ensure the product is 'developer-friendly' for both internal professional services teams and external systems integrators
• Align internal stakeholders on our strategy and roadmap. Partner with product engineering to build, with professional services to ensure the APIs are easily deployable in the field, and with sales to help close customers

Requirements:

• The 'Shape' of a Leader: You are a 'Product Architect' (strong in Customer Insight and Strategy) who knows how to 'Build' (strong in Execution)
• Product Leadership: Owned a product within an enterprise software market with high-touch direct sales
• Enterprise Complexity: Experience in a highly concentrated, enterprise market (Insurance, Fintech, or Healthtech) where software must be highly configurable and integrated by 3rd parties
• API-First Mindset: You understand that an API is the product. You have experience defining technical requirements for developers and system integrators
• Strategic Autonomy: A proven track record of taking a vague market opportunity (like a new industry standard) and turning it into a concrete, successful product
• Based in the US/Americas: Ability to work effectively with US-based carriers and time zones
• Annuity/Life Insurance Domain Expertise: Familiarity with the annuity lifecycle, distribution channels, and carrier operations is a massive plus
• PaaS/Platform Experience: Experience building 'Lego block' style software that allows carriers to build their own unique experiences on top of your foundation
• Industry Standards Body Experience: Prior involvement with an industry standards body like IRI, ISO or ACORD