Director - Product Management (Casualty)

Moody's; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Moody's is seeking a senior product leader for casualty and financial lines underwriting solutions. You will steer strategy from concept to launch, coordinating with underwriters, actuaries, and data teams to deliver innovative, scalable solutions.

You will represent Moody's in client meetings and industry events, translating customer needs into product direction and prioritizing AI-enabled capabilities across the portfolio. Global travel is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in business, insurance, data science or a related field.
• Experience leading underwriting teams and driving strategic product decisions.
• Strong understanding of casualty and financial lines risks across regions.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and roadmap for casualty and financial lines underwriting solutions from concept to market.
• Define multi-year product strategy focusing on innovation, scalability and commercial impact.
• Lead planning cycles and align investments with enterprise platform vision across data, analytics, and digital capabilities.
• Act as product lead in customer meetings, industry events and analyst briefings.
• Collaborate with underwriters and actuaries to translate customer needs into product direction.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI across the product portfolio and coordinate with AI/ML teams.

Skills

Casualty underwriting

Underwriting leadership

Risk analytics tools

Portfolio management

Generative AI in insurance

Global travel

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in business, insurance, data science or a related field

Tools

Underwriting systems

Portfolio management tools

Analytics software

Job description

At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today’s risks into tomorrow’s opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are—with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. Moody’s is transforming how the world sees risk. As a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment, we’re advancing AI to move from insight to action—enabling intelligence that not only understands complexity but responds to it. We decode risk to unlock opportunity, helping our clients navigate uncertainty with clarity, speed, and confidence.

We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity.

Skills and Competencies

• Expertise in casualty lines, including general liability, workers' compensation and professional liability, and/or expertise in financial and credit lines insurance
• 10+ years in the insurance industry working with underwriters and underwriting teams
• Understanding of underwriting practices in the United States, Europe and Lloyd's
• Experience working with or developing risk analytics tools, portfolio management solutions or underwriting systems
• Proven ability to lead teams and deliver innovative solutions from concept to market
• Business-driven with a passion for technology, an appetite for uncovering new revenue opportunities and the ability to develop strategies that increase the market presence of products
• Excellent communication, leadership and organizational skills, with flexibility to travel globally and collaborate across time zones
• Strong understanding of GenAI capabilities and real-world applications in insurance or financial services

Education

• Bachelor's degree or higher in business, insurance, data science or a related field

Responsibilities

Lead the strategy and roadmap for Moody's casualty and financial lines underwriting solutions, from concept to launch and market adoption.

• Define and drive the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for casualty and financial lines insurance underwriting solutions, focused on innovation, scalability and commercial impact
• Lead strategic planning cycles and influence investment decisions, ensuring alignment with Moody's enterprise platform vision across data, analytics and digital capabilities
• Act as the product lead for the casualty insurance segment, representing Moody's in customer meetings, industry events and analyst briefings
• Meet regularly with underwriters, actuaries, claims leaders and executives at insurers and reinsurers to understand customer needs and translate them into product direction
• Identify opportunities to apply generative artificial intelligence across the product portfolio, such as natural language portfolio queries, streamlined exposure analysis and automated underwriting and claims insights, working with artificial intelligence, machine learning and engineering teams to prioritize and deliver these capabilities
• Oversee the product lifecycle from concept to launch, ensuring timely delivery, quality and alignment with market demand, and define and monitor key performance indicators to inform prioritization decisions
• Work with engineering, design, data science, modeling and operations teams to ensure technical feasibility, scalability and usability, incorporating advanced analytics into product workflows and influencing platform architecture and data strategy
• Partner with marketing, sales enablement, go-to-market and customer success teams to define messaging, create collateral, support strategic deals and drive product adoption and value realization

About the Team

Our team Insurance Solutions Team is responsible for helping insurers and reinsurers gain greater clarity on liability risk through advanced analytics, underwriting tools and portfolio management solutions. We help customers quantify emerging liability risks, respond to social inflation and integrate structured data and models into core workflows. By joining our team, you will be part of exciting work in casualty and financial lines insurance, where we are using artificial intelligence, including generative artificial intelligence, to build innovative, data-driven solutions.

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.
Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.