
Senior Product Specialist – Commercial Property
Verisk
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $90,000 - $110,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Partner with product, underwriting, and operations stakeholders to define, document, test, and track product requirements that align with commercial insurance carrier workflows.**
- Work closely with IT and development teams in an agile software development environment to ensure clear communication of requirements, priorities, goals, and timelines.**
- Maintain consistent communication with operations and internal users to support a continuous cycle of feedback, development, release, and post release support.**
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues across product, risk engineering, marketing, sales, information technology, and operations to ensure successful delivery of ProMetrix product objectives.**
- Participate in the product component of sales opportunities by helping position ProMetrix capabilities, supporting proofs of concept, and ensuring customer confidence in how the solution supports underwriting and carrier processes.**
- Engage directly with prospective and existing users to understand and anticipate underwriting and operational needs, translating them into clearly defined product requirements.**
- Create and maintain a product roadmap aligned with product vision, business priorities, and market needs.**
- Own and manage the product backlog, prioritizing features, enhancements, and defects based on business value, user impact, and delivery capacity.**
- Oversee and contribute to all phases of product development, including ideation, design, development, testing, and release.**
- Develop clear, well structured user stories in Jira that reflect real underwriting use cases and carrier requirements.**
- Partner with the product team and end users to deliver high quality solutions for defects, enhancements, and new functionality.**
- Actively participate in Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.**
- Experience in commercial insurance, underwriting, rating, or carrier operations strongly preferred.**
- Demonstrated ability to understand end user workflows and how products fit into broader carrier ecosystems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree**
- Minimum 2-3 years product owner or product specialist experience**
- Experience creating, managing, and delivering on a solid product roadmap**
- Basic understanding and experience with software development life cycle**
- Solid understanding of software agile development principles**
- Experience collaborating with design and engineering teams to deliver product features**
- Experience analyzing and evaluating the successful metrics of digital technologies **
- Excellent organizational and project management skills with experience coordinating multiple, time-sensitive projects simultaneously**
- Strong critical thinking, analytical problem-solving and negotiating skills; business creativity is a must
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Retirement Plan
- Disability benefits
- Paid Time Off program
- Competitive total rewards package
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product requirementsproduct roadmapuser storiessoftware development life cycleagile development principlesproduct backlog managementproofs of conceptmetrics analysisdefect managementcollaboration with design teams
Soft Skills
communicationorganizational skillsproject managementcritical thinkinganalytical problem-solvingnegotiating skillsbusiness creativitycollaborationfeedback managementuser engagement
Certifications
Bachelor's degree