Senior Product Manager, Underwriting

Hippo

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Work type
On-site
Location
Austin, TXDallas, TXMorristown, NJSan Jose, CA
Salary
$124,000–$186,000 / yr
Posted
10 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $198k
This role $155k
$111k most similar roles pay here $245k

This role pays less than 83% of similar roles. Most pay $172,327–$224,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $155k versus about $198k for comparable roles.

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About Hippo

Hippo Insurance is a home insurance company that offers proactive home insurance products using smart home technology and data to help homeowners prevent claims before they happen. Industry: Insurance Technology & Homeowners Insurance

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TL;DR · Senior Product Manager, Underwriting

As a Senior Product Manager, Underwriting, you will join the team responsible for the underwriting platform charter. You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle for this critical infrastructure, including the rules engine, risk and underwriting models, and AI-powered workflows. Your daily work involves defining multi-year strategies to modernize systems, improving loss ratios, and increasing underwriting accuracy. You will act as a primary bridge between actuarial business teams and engineering, translating complex risk requirements into actionable PRDs and user stories. To succeed, you must possess experience with risk platforms, decision automation systems, and ML models. The role requires expertise in insurance or financial services to solve problems related to risk modeling and automated underwriting logic. You will leverage data-driven insights to manage trade-offs while ensuring the platform remains scalable and capable of handling rapid changes in risk appetite.

What does a Product Manager earn in California?

Median $223300 from 163 postings across 44 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and own the multi-year product strategy for the underwriting platform, including rules engines and AI workflows.
  • Identify opportunities to modernize infrastructure to improve loss ratios, underwriting accuracy, and speed-to-market.
  • Manage the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery and prioritization to delivery and post-launch performance.
  • Translate complex business and risk requirements into actionable PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
  • Lead cross-functional execution with Engineering, Data Science, and Actuarial teams to deliver high-quality platform initiatives.
  • Serve as the primary bridge between underwriting business units and the engineering organization.
  • Drive the evolution of the rules engine to enable faster and more auditable changes to underwriting logic.
  • Partner with Data Science to integrate risk models into the production underwriting workflow.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in product management including full ownership of a product backlog and leading the end-to-end software development lifecycle.
  • Experience building or working with risk platforms, rules engines, ML models, and decision automation systems.
  • Proven track record of translating ambiguous business problems into clear technical requirements for engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated experience improving risk and efficiency metrics such as loss ratio, case handling time, and automation rates at scale.
  • Ability to develop long-term strategy while managing rigorous near-term execution in a technical domain.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills to build trust across business, technical, and executive audiences.
  • Data-driven decision making with strong analytical skills to define success metrics and iterate on results.
  • Experience in insurance, financial services, or an adjacent industry.

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