Markel

Director

Markel

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • Massachusetts • New Jersey • United States

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Salary

💰 $189,000 - $260,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Own the problem statement, product vision, success metrics, and delivery outcomes, translating business goals into a clear, executable roadmap and integrated delivery plan.
  • Define and prioritize features, capabilities, and experiments based on value, risk, dependencies, and learning velocity.
  • Act as the primary decision-maker for scope, sequencing, and trade-offs to maximize business impact.
  • Own program and project execution end-to-end: intake, discovery, planning, execution, release, and value realization.
  • Develop and manage integrated delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, and critical paths across multiple workstreams.
  • Actively manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies (RAID), escalating and resolving proactively.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams (engineering, data, architecture, business, vendors) and actively remove blockers.
  • Operate with a startup mindset—lightweight but disciplined governance, rapid iteration, bias to action, and continuous learning.
  • Serve as the bridge between business and technology, deeply understanding workflows, pain points, and opportunities. Translate business needs into clear epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery-ready requirements.
  • Provide product-level oversight for AI-enabled capabilities, ensuring alignment to business value, usability, and operational readiness.

Requirements

  • 10+ years experience with P&C / Specialty Insurance required
  • Proven experience operating across product management, program/project management, and delivery leadership responsibilities.
  • Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional programs in fast-paced, change-heavy environments.
  • Strong execution discipline: planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, and delivery tracking.
  • Strong product instincts: customer focus, value prioritization, and outcome-driven decision-making.
  • Hands-on delivery leadership experience using Agile, hybrid, or iterative delivery models.
  • Demonstrated experience delivering viable AI-enabled products and data-driven solutions, with the ability to provide informed product oversight (not necessarily hands-on model development).
  • Exceptional communication, facilitation, and executive-level stakeholder management skills.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • 401(k) with employer match contributions
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Paid time off
  • Corporate holidays
  • Floating holidays
  • Parental leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
product managementprogram managementproject managementdelivery leadershipAgileiterative delivery modelsrisk mitigationdependency managementdata-driven solutionsAI-enabled products
Soft Skills
execution disciplinecustomer focusvalue prioritizationoutcome-driven decision-makingcommunicationfacilitationstakeholder managementcross-functional coordinationproblem-solvingcontinuous learning