Technical Product Manager

Kin is redesigning insurance to be smarter, faster, and centered on the customer. We use intelligent pricing, offer seamless bundling, and make every step (from purchasing, servicing to claims) simple and friction-free, especially in the places traditional insurers often ignore.

We empower people to protect what matters most, starting with their homes and expanding to all they value, in a world where climate risks, rising costs, and outdated systems leave too many behind. Our approach has fostered amazing growth, attracted marquee investors, and earned us accolades, including being named to:

• Built In Chicago's Best Places to Work, Midsize Companies (2021-2025).

• Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers (2021- 2024, Ranked #37 in 2024).

• Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies.

• Forbes’ Fintech 50.

Simply put, our people are what make us great – we need forward-thinking, inspired game-changers like you to join us in our mission.

So, what’s the role?

We are looking for an ambitious Data Product Manager to drive key strategic initiatives within our Data Product portfolio. In this role, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing, sales, operations, finance, insurance, design, and customer research. You will partner with stakeholder and technology colleagues to research, validate, and present your proposals, then execute on those approved and prioritized. This role requires a deep understanding of data analytics, technology, and strong product management skills.

Your objective in this role is to lead entire projects or parts of larger projects at Kin. You will develop a solid understanding of Kin’s business, data, our customers, and our operations. You will have the opportunity to hone your product management skills by working across our robust platform and leading your development team including data engineers, data scientists and business analysts. Your success and career growth will hinge on your ability to build effective working relationships with your Kin colleagues and your internal stakeholder team in order to identify areas to improve our business, products, and processes. You enjoy solving problems and will often take the initiative to build your case and start a project.

A day in the life could include: 

• Working closely with the Product Director to define and communicate the product vision and goals for our data product offerings

• Assist in creating and managing product roadmaps that address the biggest needs in our business and meaningfully impact our OKRs, while delighting our customers and other end users

• Digging deep into our data and product experience to understand the most significant problems that users face, and working with design and engineering to develop and test solutions

• Collaborating with the user research team and sharing key learnings with your development team, the product team, and the company

• Partnering closely with the development team to socialize your product plans, and collaborate with them to size the work and find ways to make it better through team feedback

• Writing user stories that provide all of the details needed by our development teams to develop key features

• Ensuring the successful rollout, growth, and success of your features/products via  communications and training to appropriate users/stakeholders across the business

• Defining, evangelizing, and monitoring the metrics that demonstrate product success

• Coordinating and leading regular team and stakeholder meetings to both gather feedback on your projects and share important updates

• Motivating the development team and connecting the team’s daily work with our bigger goals at Kin
  

I’ve got the skills… but do I have the necessary ones?

• 2-5 years of professional experience

• 3+ years of software, technology, or data product management experience

• Extensive experience working with agile product and engineering teams in startup and/or rapid-growth environments

• Demonstrated expertise working in big data and analytics tools (ex. Adobe, Tableau, Looker)

• Hard Skills

  • Ability to turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into concrete action plans

  • Proficient in SQL and data analysis

  • Customer and market research 

  • Familiarity with Data Science techniques, A/B testing, hypothesis testing and other experimentation paradigms

  • Effective and concise written and verbal communication 

  • Strong project management skills and well organized

• Soft Skills

  • Thinks strate