About the job
As a Solution Product Manager specializing in Insurance Underwriting, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Nearmap’s innovative product offerings designed to empower insurance carriers in their risk evaluation and policy underwriting processes. This position encompasses the full spectrum of the pre-loss policy lifecycle, including quoting, new business underwriting, renewal underwriting, and loss control applications of Nearmap’s state-of-the-art software, high-resolution imagery, and data. Your work will assist underwriters and loss control professionals in accurately assessing properties, establishing appropriate policy pricing, and minimizing the necessity for on-site inspections through the utilization of remote intelligence. You will collaborate closely with insurance stakeholders to extract insights on underwriting processes and guide the development of advanced features such as property condition analysis, automated risk scoring, and portfolio risk assessment tools leveraging Nearmap’s premium imagery and AI datasets. By partnering with engineering, content, analytics teams, and aligning with marketing and industry experts, you will ensure Nearmap’s underwriting solutions meet the evolving demands of insurance carriers, leading to more efficient and data-driven underwriting practices.
Key Responsibilities
1. Build and Prioritize the Underwriting Product Roadmap
- Define and own the strategic roadmap for insurance underwriting solutions, emphasizing aerial imagery and geospatial data.
- Prioritize impactful features such as risk scoring dashboards, change detection alerts, and remote property surveys.
- Ensure the roadmap aligns with the needs of insurers across underwriting workflows and risk assessments.
2. Partner Across Teams and with Customers
- Engage with insurance clients, underwriters, and executives to gather product requirements.
- Collaborate with the Content and Impact Response team to ensure imagery updates address critical policy areas.
- Coordinate with the Data Integrations team to facilitate ingestion into policy platforms and risk models.
- Maintain alignment with the Industry Market Manager to monitor market trends and regulatory changes.
3. Deliver Actionable Risk Insights through AI and Analytics
- Collaborate with data science teams to extract underwriting insights from aerial imagery.
- Highlight essential property attributes (e.g., roof condition, defensible space) that correlate with risk.
- Present these insights in a straightforward, decision-ready format for underwriters.
4. Drive Adoption, Value, and Go-to-Market Execution
- Monitor product usage and assess impact on key metrics such as inspection reduction and loss ratio improvement.
- Work with Product Marketing to effectively communicate product value and support feature launches.
- Utilize adoption data to continuously refine and enhance the underwriting product experience.

