AVP, Workforce Benefits Product & Pricing – Life, Disability, Leave

Pacific Life

Develop portfolio strategy and drive outcomes for Workforce Benefits product lines at Pacific Life. Lead product lifecycle from innovation to execution while ensuring compliance and profitability.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeNewport Beach • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $230,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own portfolio strategy and outcomes for Workforce Benefits Life, Disability, and Leave/Absence products.
Establish an integrated product and pricing vision aligned to divisional growth objectives and risk appetite, with accountability for performance, profitability, and customer value.
Lead end-to-end product lifecycle, including product innovations, and business case development.
Oversee product team that performs regulatory approvals, product launch, and ongoing optimization.
Ensure product offerings are compliant, scalable, operationally executable, and differentiated.
Establish and approve pricing frameworks and portfolio guardrails, including key metrics, assumption governance, sensitivity analysis.
Gain alignment on the strategic balance of competitiveness, profitability, and risk for your products.
Drive differentiation of product and pricing capabilities, partnering with peers in UW Transformation, analytics, and technology to push leading edge speed-to-market, monitoring, and decision quality.
Build, lead, and develop a high performing team, providing direction, coaching, and talent development while creating clarity across the division on strategy and performance while we are in build mode.
Own Life, Disability, and Absence/Leave assumption management, including mortality and morbidity analysis, trending monitoring, and transparent communication of methodologies, results, and sensitivities to senior leadership.
Oversee month-end and quarter-end reserving activities, including review and interpretation of claims experience, reserve movements, and key financial risk drivers.
Provide clear executive level insights into performance, trends, and emerging risks.
Lead and approve product, pricing, and risk committee readiness and approvals, ensuring product and pricing meet enterprise governance standards and trade-offs are clearly articulated and documented.
Oversee product and rate filings in partnership with legal and compliance, ensuring timely approvals.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in actuarial science, mathematics, finance, business, economics, or related field (or equivalent combination of education or experience)
10+ years of progressive experience in workforce benefits or group insurance, with increasing leadership and scope.
Actuarial credential (FSA) preferred, or equivalent depth of product, pricing, and risk leadership experience.
Demonstrated leadership in product and/or pricing, including launching, managing, and optimizing insurance products through governance, implementation, and performance monitoring.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional decision-making across finance, underwriting, legal/compliance, operations, technology, and distribution.
Experience guiding initiatives through product, pricing, risk, and regulatory governance processes.
Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to explain methodologies, assumptions, risks, and performance drivers to senior leaders.
Demonstrated people leadership and talent development experience, including leading senior professionals and/or managers.

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Hard Skills & Tools

product lifecycle managementpricing frameworksmortality analysismorbidity analysissensitivity analysisfinancial risk analysisregulatory complianceperformance monitoringbusiness case developmentportfolio strategy

Soft Skills

leadershipteam developmentexecutive communicationcross-functional collaborationstrategic thinkingcoachingdecision-makingclarity in strategytalent developmentdirection providing

Certifications

FSA