Product Strategist

• Develop and champion a compelling product vision and strategy for L&A core services.
• Create and maintain a prioritized roadmap aligned to strategic objectives, market opportunities, and customer needs.
• Lead the development and communication of detailed product requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Analyze the competitive landscape and identify key gaps and opportunities for EIS offerings.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, UX/UI design, sales, and customer success teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Gather, synthesize, and leverage market intelligence, customer feedback, and usage data to inform product direction.
• Engage directly with clients and internal stakeholders to understand needs, translate them into roadmap initiatives, and drive consensus.
• Partner with product marketing and sales enablement to define positioning, messaging, and value propositions.
• Support market-facing activities through product expertise and sales collateral development.

• 10+ years of professional experience, with at least:
• 5+ years in the insurance industry (preferably Life and Annuities).
• 5+ years working with insurance technology platforms or transformation initiatives.
• 4+ years of direct exposure to Life and Annuity processes and systems.
• Demonstrated success defining product strategy and launching complex software products or platforms (ideally SaaS or cloud-native).
• Strong understanding of Policy Administration Systems (PAS), billing, claims, cash/treasury management, or investment accounting within insurance.
• Exceptional strategic thinking, decision-making, and analytical skills.
• Ability to develop business cases, size market opportunities, and prioritize initiatives based on data-driven insights.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Proven ability to influence and build consensus across distributed, global, cross-functional teams.
• Self-starter with a proactive attitude and strong sense of ownership.
• Comfortable balancing strategic planning with day-to-day tactical execution.

• Work with top talent and great colleagues who are industry and technology experts. Operate in a Scaled Agile environment, diverse, multicultural and cross-functional teams
• We are a global and modern software product company building world-class Enterprise InsurtTech Product powered by leading-edge technologies (microservices, reactive, cloud, continuous delivery)
• We offer freedom - build from building your career path through development programs and exciting global mobility opportunities (we have a remote and global culture)
• Health insurance and home office utility compensation (the monthly allowance for teleworking)

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