Senior Product Manager

Verisk's Catastrophe and Risk Solutions team is looking for a strategic, customer-focused Product Manager to help shape the future of catastrophe risk management software.

In this role, you will translate market needs, client workflows, and emerging technology trends into innovative product capabilities that help insurers, reinsurers, brokers, and financial institutions better understand and manage extreme event risk.

This is an opportunity to influence product strategy from discovery through launch, partner closely with clients and cross-functional teams, and contribute to solutions that bring scientific rigor, advanced analytics, and practical decision support to some of the most complex risk challenges in the market.

What you'll do

Strategy & Roadmap


* Provide thought leadership by serving as CRS's evangelist for assigned products/features, assessing client needs, technology trends, and competitive offerings to develop product requirements and support a long-term product roadmap.


* Drive and maintain product/feature roadmaps by participating in product planning and requirement meetings; prioritize product direction and features to maximize ROI and client satisfaction.


* Own full product and feature lifecycle management - from research and definition through execution, launch, and post-launch - including strategic planning and release management.

Market & Customer Insight


* Discover and validate market problems by interviewing customers, recent evaluators, and untapped prospects, demonstrating their pervasiveness across the market.


* Act as gatekeeper for one or more features across channels/platforms; work directly with internal/external stakeholders to understand client workflows and serve as the "voice of the customer."


* Perform market research and competitive landscape review to identify product gaps, market positioning opportunities, and potential strategic partners.

Client Engagement & Relationships


* Establish direct relationships with clients.


* Engage in demonstrations, presentations, and discussions with clients on products, both pre- and post-sales.


* Support business development and regional offices with client product discussions, issue escalation, questions, enhancement requests, and ongoing client visits.

Execution & Delivery


* Develop themes and initiatives, epics and features in collaboration with internal teams and clients; write high-level user stories and mentor PM team on sprint-level user stories, feature/bug prioritization, acceptance criteria, testing, and documentation.


* Participate in and/or coordinate sprint demos; personally verify functionality against Definition of Done.


* Lead prioritization and investigation of client-reported issues for assigned features; coordinate weekly product status meetings.

Technical & Process Expertise


* Develop technical expertise in features/models to perform sophisticated risk analy...