Product Manager – Underwriting Operations
Ledgebrook
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Poland
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About the role
- Own the product lifecycle for Ledgebrook’s Underwriting Operations initiatives from discovery through delivery and measurement.
- Lead agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, standups) and manage Jira: creating, refining, and validating stories to ensure clarity and readiness for release.
- Partner with engineering leads to translate complex technical initiatives into clear deliverables, balancing strategic priorities with day-to-day execution.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering, actuarial, underwriting, finance, and operations to understand needs and define roadmap priorities.
- Define success metrics and use data to track outcomes, improve processes, and guide investment decisions.
- Ensure technical readiness for releases, coordinating QA, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
- Lead roadmap planning, aligning quarterly and annual objectives with company OKRs and evolving business needs.
- Champion internal adoption of new tools, ensuring teams across the company derive measurable value.
- Drive continuous improvement in team velocity, delivery predictability, and agile maturity.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally supporting application teams.
- Proven success leading agile software development teams and managing workflows (epics, sprints, story validation).
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, able to synthesize competing priorities into a clear plan.
- Comfort with technical topics such as APIs, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and system reliability.
- Analytical and metrics-driven approach to prioritization and success measurement.
- Experience managing complex cross-functional projects from ideation through delivery.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and provide clarity for engineering and business partners.
- Nice to haves
- Familiarity with the Insurance Industry and its processes (Underwriting, Claims, etc.)
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform, ECS, IAM, networking).
- Experience in Insurtech or another regulated, data-heavy industry.
- Hands-on familiarity with defining application design (Figma, Sketch, XD, etc.)
- Experience driving adoption of internal tooling or developer productivity platforms.
- Background in agile coaching, process design, or operational excellence.
- Coordination of large scale software rollouts across multiple teams.
Benefits
- Competitive salary + meaningful equity ownership
- Completely remote, flexible schedule, and monthly coworking gatherings
- Unlimited paid time off
- Work with an ambitious, smart, fun team to transform a $1T global industry
- Ownership, autonomy, purpose
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementagile software developmentAPIcloud infrastructuredata pipelinessystem reliabilitymetrics-driven approachcross-functional project managementapplication designagile coaching
Soft Skills
communicationstakeholder managementanalytical thinkingprioritizationnavigating ambiguityclarity in communicationcollaborationcontinuous improvementleadershipstrategic planning