Product Manager, Catastrophe Modeling Solutions

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

• Provide thought leadership based on experience with insurance and reinsurance terms, data coding challenges and risk modeling needs of the industry.
• Discover problems in the market with gaps in coding policies, financial modeling, and validating assumptions by interviewing customers, recent evaluators and untapped potential customers.  Validate problems to show their pervasiveness in the market.
• Identify competitive and alternative offerings in the market.  Assess their strengths and weaknesses.  Develop a strategy for winning against the competition.
• Demonstrations, presentations and discussions with clients.
• Contribute to product roadmaps, ideate on product definition, create feature overviews and help with design, development and quality of products.
• Define pre-launch, post-launch and go to market phases and lead conversations on licensing, pricing, deployment for the initiative, function or product as needed.
• Advocate for best product management practices and process improvements.

Qualifications

• At least 10+ years working in leadership role in catastrophe modeling workflows, strong actuarial background, ideally in different insurance/reinsurance companies or catastrophe modeling vendors.
• Strong understanding of insurance and/or reinsurance industry, particularly the use of financial models for quantification of catastrophe risk including related exposure data and financial terms.
• Proven ability to guide global teams and answer technical financial modeling questions.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to dig into details and understand the big picture.
• Willing to build expertise in all areas of product development:  from domain, business, technology to design, from discovery and delivery to marketing and analytics.

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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.

We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.
• Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
• Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
• Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows