Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

Chicago, Illinois, United States; Jersey City, New Jersey, United States; Mountain View, California, United States

Overview:

If you're looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we're hiring. SageSure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking a Senior Software Product Manager to help drive the strategy, development, and delivery of critical software products and platforms that support our business, customers, and partners. This role will work closely with engineering, QA, design, and data partners on a cross-functional software product team, while collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to identify opportunities, solve complex business challenges, and deliver high-impact solutions.

This is a highly collaborative and technical role that owns product outcomes supporting company growth, operational excellence, and customer experience. We're looking for someone who values strategic thinking, data-driven decision making, and strong execution, while partnering effectively across business and technology teams.

What you'd be doing:

• Define and communicate product vision, strategy, and roadmap for key software products and capabilities.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify business needs, evaluate opportunities, and prioritize initiatives that drive measurable outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, QA, design, and data teams throughout product discovery, delivery, and iteration.
• Translate complex business problems into scalable product solutions.
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps that align with organizational priorities and strategic objectives.
• Leverage qualitative and quantitative data to inform product decisions, prioritize investments, and measure success.
• Lead product discovery efforts, including user research, requirements gathering, and solution validation.
• Drive alignment across stakeholders and facilitate decision-making in complex or ambiguous situations.
• Continuously improve product management practices and contribute to a culture of innovation, learning, and operational excellence.
• Promote strong cross-functional collaboration and build trusted relationships across teams.
• Proactively engage with team members, partners, peers, and leaders through in-person meetings, office visits, and offsite events to strengthen collaboration and business outcomes.

We're looking for someone who has:

• 5-7+ years of product management experience, preferably in software or technology-focused environments.
• Experience managing products throughout the full product lifecycle, from discovery and strategy through delivery and optimization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize information from multiple sources and make data-driven decisions.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and balance competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Ownership mentality with the ability to operate strategically while also diving into execution details when needed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with business, technical, and executive audiences.
• Customer-focused mindset with a passion for solving meaningful problems and delivering measurable value.
• Ability and willingness to travel periodically for team meetings, stakeholder engagement, office visits, and company events, estimated at approximately 10–15% annually.

Highly preferred candidates also have:

• Experience working closely with software engineering teams and modern product development practices.
• Experience building products that support operational workflows, customer experiences, or enterprise business processes.
• Background in insurance, financial services, SaaS, or other technology-enabled industries.
• Familiarity with agile product development methodologies and product management best practices.
• Experience leveraging data, analytics, and experimentation to inform product strategy and measure impact.

Software at SageSure:

Originally founded as a software and analytics business, SageSure's proprietary technology has always been a key source of competitive advantage. We offer agents and policyholders best-in-class, modern capabilities to quote and bind insurance, service policies, and submit and track claims. We operate a microservices-based SaaS platform and conduct a substantial share of our business through our API. Our software product, engineering, and operations teams set the bar for talent in our industry. We work remotely from numerous states across the country and are always looking for exceptional individuals to join us.

We are continually innovating with modern tools and technologies, and we welcome new perspectives. An ideal candidate will have a passion for some of our key technologies and advocate pragmatic industry practices around availability, scalability, security, and automation. A cloud-based infrastructure, continuous integration and delivery, and a quality-first approach help us to better deliver software. A metrics-driven mindset has become part of our DNA and helps us make data-driven decisions. If you have interests across these domains, we want to help grow and foster them.

About SageSure:

Named among the Best Places to Work in Insurance by Business Insurance for four years in a row (2020-2023), SageSure is one of the largest managing general underwriters (MGU) focused on catastrophe-exposed property in the US. Since its founding in 2009, SageSure has experienced exceptional growth while generating underwriting profits for carrier partners through hurricanes, wildfires, and hail. Available in 16 states, SageSure offers more than 110 home, flood, and commercial products on behalf of its highly rated carrier partners. Today, SageSure manages more than $3.2 billion of inforce premium and helps protect more than 970,000 policyholders.

We have more than 1,000 employees in a distributed workforce environment across 12 offices—Fairfield, CA; Mountain View, CA; Cheshire, CT; Jacksonville, FL; Tallahassee, FL; Tampa, FL; Chicago, IL; Jersey City, NJ; Marlton, NJ; Cincinnati, OH; Houston, TX; Sheboygan, WI—who are tackling the industry's toughest challenges.

SageSure is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a workforce that reflects the spectrum of perspectives, experiences, and abilities of the world we live in. We recognize that our differences make us strong, and we actively seek out diverse candidates through partnerships with organizations, institutions and communities that represent various backgrounds. We champion belonging and inclusion for all identities, including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, ability status, gender, and country of origin, striving to create a culture where all individuals feel valued, respected, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.

Our nimble, highly responsive culture nurtures critical thinkers who run toward problems and engineer solutions. We relentlessly pursue better outcomes by investing in the technology, talent, and tools that position us to succeed in demanding markets. Come join our team!