United States onlyInsurance is a trillion dollar market that is fundamental to society, yet it has not modernized — until now.
Newfront is building the modern insurance experience.
We've reimagined the experience for clients, prospects, and employees, altering the way people create, understand, select, transact, and use insurance. We're changing the approach so that it starts and ends with the client, not the product, and empowering people for moments that matter.
Our unique approach recognizes both the vast potential of technology and the fundamental role of insurance experts. We're a technology-driven company with DEI in our DNA and strong values; we believe people matter most.
Our mission is to define the future of the insurance industry, while instilling a high performance culture in combination with living our Work, Love, Play ethos each day. We value balanced lives and are passionate about creating a culture of wellness that results in healthier, happier, and more productive employees, and more successful clients.
As the leader of the Total Rewards product at Newfront, you’ll manage the client experience for the thousands of businesses we work with. You'll work closely with Design and Engineering teammates to ship a modern dashboard that helps HR leaders manage their plans and vendors, identify areas for improvement, and engage with employees. You'll also craft an employee app that guides Newfront clients' employees through their benefits, helps them improve their health and wellbeing, and answers any questions.
This position is a salaried, exempt, full-time role. This role is open to Bay Area-based candidates or remote candidates who are open to occasional travel to one of Newfront’s offices.
What You’ll Be Responsible For:
- Communicating a cohesive product investment framework. There are a million features we could be launching, but you’ve picked this one. You’ll need to clearly reason about your ideas and be able to communicate frameworks for prioritizing and executing projects through metrics creation, ROI evaluation, and impact analysis.
- Distilling complex problems and opportunities into simple requirements. The benefits insurance industry is one built on exceptions, and the features you build will need to streamline workflows while being flexible enough to manage those exceptions.
- Aligning diverse partners and teams of Engineers, Designers, and Insurance colleagues to guide a shared vision.
- Setting your team's goals, success metrics, and roadmap to align with Newfront’s mission to turn risk into an opportunity for clients.
- Working with Designers and Engineers to prioritize, plan, and execute. You will conduct research and create product specs, influence and provide feedback on product designs, and work with Engineering to drive high-quality feature launches.
- Partner with Product Operations to enable complex rollouts for Newfront clients.
Qualifications:
- Experience: 4-10 years of Product Management experience with software products. Deep knowledge of how a high-output engineering organization should function and clear expectations of different players and partners within the engineering org.
- Systems thinking: Ability to see how various products and features should fit together to serve different user groups, with the analytical skills to justify the approach being taken. Demonstrated ability to identify foundational issues with product strategy and then actively invest in these projects for the long-term benefit of the team and company.
- Execution: Self-starter, independently motivated. Bias towards action and experimentation. Capacity to juggle multiple simultaneous projects while maintaining incredible attention to detail.
- Communication and collaboration: Demonstrated ability to work closely with, manage and align stakeholders. Ability to create and communicate intuitive frameworks for thinking about products. Strong presentation and communication skills (oral and written) for technical and non-technical colleagues up to and including the executive-level.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Long-term product strategy: Experience creating strategic product roadmaps that span multiple years.
- Relevant domain experience: Prior experience with fintech, health tech, marketplaces, insurance, or data aggregation.
- Technical aptitude: Background in Computer Science, Math and Statistics, Operations Research, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience managing Product Managers and other product-adjacent functions (e.g. Designers, Analysts). We're growing!
The pay range for this position in California, Washington, Colorado, and New York at the commencement of employment is expected to be between $176,000.00 and $220,000.00/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, the employee will be in an “at-will position,” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
At Newfront, we are committed to hiring diverse talent and supporting an inclusive workplace environment. If you are excited about a role at Newfront but feel you’re missing a few of the qualifications, we still encourage you to apply and tell us about yourself. You may just be the next Newfront team member that we are looking for!
Newfront is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Diversity is in our DNA and we believe that creating an inclusive workplace elevates the value we are able to bring to our customers and employees alike. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other applicable status protected by state or local law.
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