Product Manager, Catastrophe Modeling

Company Description

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

Job Description

Your position as a Product Owner in the Product Management team will be responsible for contributing to the success of Verisk Extreme Event Solutions catastrophe modeling platform and products by participating in product planning, requirement development and implementation activities as we transition to a cloud-based SaaS platform. You will serve as product owner for one or more scrum teams involved in product development.  You will interact with model developers, client support teams and our clients and serve as a subject matter expert to help guide product development.

About the Day-to-Day Responsibilities of the Role:

• Independent product owner for one or more scrum teams, including:

• Maintaining the team backlog and ticket prioritization and maintenance. 
• Working with Product Manager/SME on use case development and user story creation. 
• Driving new features to definitions of ready (DOR) and ensuring team deliverables meet the minimum definition of done (DOD).
• Remove obstacles to enable the scrum team to maintain a high team velocity.

• Assist product manager with managing features internally and externally, including working directly with internal/external stakeholders and external customers to understand client workflows, product needs and competitive landscape.  
• Develop requirements and proofs-of-concept for implementation of actuarial and financial algorithms for insurance and reinsurance loss modeling, as well as for estimation of uncertainty with probabilistic and simulation techniques.
• Help identify product gaps as well as opportunities to improve product position in the market.
• Collaborate with software developers, sales, consulting, researchers, and subject matter experts – while developing expertise in understanding the use of catastrophe models and risk analyses.
• Assist Consulting team in investigating and resolving reported product issues.

Qualifications

• Experience working with catastrophe modeling software applications is a plus.
• Experience with insurance/ reinsurance domains, underwriting risk modeling. 
• 3-5 years software product consulting, product owner, project management, or business analysis experience with a proven track record of successfully releasing software products
• Demonstrated business analysis experience for software development including requirements management, use case development, experience with project management and Agile software development methodologies.
• Good understanding of insurance and/or reinsurance industry, including related exposure data, financial terms, and catastrophe modeling workflows a plus.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex projects, including Agile product owner experience.  Demonstrated ability to meet challenging schedule, scope, and quality objectives.
• Strong analytical skills, quantitative and problem-solving ability.
• Experience developing SaaS products.
• Self-motivated and quick learner, with good organization and time management skills; can work independently
• Good presentation and written communication skills
• BS degree in technical (e.g., engineering, science, math, computer science, statistics, or closely related program of study) or business fields.  Advanced degree preferred.

Additional Information

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale.

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