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The Product Manager for Data leads the product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for data and reporting applications serving internal and external users.
This role translates business needs into prioritized, approved initiatives with clear value, scope, and outcomes, ensuring teams remain focused on the highest-value work. While primarily focused on future roadmap and pipeline (≈80%), this role actively supports in-flight delivery by clarifying requirements, adjusting scope, and ensuring stakeholder alignment and communication.
Key Accountabilities/Deliverables:
Build deep partnerships with business leaders to identify pain points, opportunities, and measurable outcomes
Maintain an 18-month roadmap and a 6+ month ready backlog aligned to business priorities and capacity
Lead end-to-end business case development, ensuring clear value (ROI), defined scope, and approved prioritization
Balance feature delivery with technical investment (reliability, scalability, modernization)
Own requirements clarity, backlog prioritization, and stakeholder alignment across all initiatives
Provide clear, consistent progress and roadmap reporting, enabling informed stakeholder decisions
Define and track success metrics for delivered outcomes
Drive prioritization trade-offs based on value, risk, and capacity
Enforce intake, prioritization, and funding governance processes to ensure alignment to portfolio priorities
Technical Knowledge and Understanding:
Strong written communication skills for technical and executive audiences (C-suite)
Practical experience with Agile delivery (Scrum, Kanban)
Strong understanding of modern data stacks and reporting and visualization tools
Literacy in Data Modeling, Data Ingestion, ML Modeling, Data Governance
Deep understanding of the Microsoft data stack, including Microsoft Fabric and Power BI preferred
Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Business Administration related discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
Minimum of 3+ years' experience in product management within Agile environments
Minimum of 3+ years' experience driving data engineering and reporting initiatives
Experience with Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence)
Experience using AI-enabled tools (e.g., Copilot) to improve productivity
Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams
Demonstrated habit of continuously teaching themselves new skills, with clear examples of recently applied learning
Experience with Insurance Industry data (claims, premiums, Bordereaux files…) preferred
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over work authorization sponsorship now or in the future for this position.
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At Core Specialty, you will receive a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development and advancement. We offer medical, dental, vision, and life insurances; short and long-term disability; a Company-match of 100% of a 6% contribution 401(k) plan; an Employee Assistance Plan; Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, Health Reimbursement Account, and a wellness program
Core Specialty offers a diversified range of property and casualty insurance products for small to mid-sized businesses. From underwriting offices spanning the U.S., the Company focuses on niche markets, local distribution, and superior underwriting knowledge, offering traditional as well as innovative insurance solutions to meet the needs of its customers and brokers. Core Specialty is an insurance holding company operating through StarStone Specialty Insurance Company, a U.S. excess and surplus lines insurer, and StarStone National Insurance Company, a U.S. admitted markets insurer. The Company is rated A- (Excellent) by AM Best. For further information about Core Specialty, please visit www.corespecialtyinsurance.com.
In compliance with the Transparency in Coverage rule, issued in 2020 by US Departments of Health, Human Services, Labor and Treasury our health plan’s machine-readable files (MRFs) can be accessed via www.Cigna.com.