Director, Underwriting Product Strategy & AI

Moody's Corporation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Moody's Corporation leads in transforming risk assessment and analytics across global markets. The company seeks a senior product leader for casualty and financial lines underwriting solutions to shape strategy, drive adoption, and deliver AI-enabled capabilities that turn insight into action.

You will work with underwriters, actuaries and executives to translate client needs into scalable products, contributing to market-leading risk analytics and portfolio management tools.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years in the insurance industry with underwriters and underwriting teams.
• Experience leading teams and delivering innovative underwriting solutions.
• Understanding of underwriting practices in the United States, Europe and Lloyd's.
• Experience with or developing risk analytics tools and underwriting systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy and roadmap for Moody's casualty and financial lines underwriting solutions.
• 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

Skills

Leadership & team management

GenAI in insurance

Product strategy & roadmap

Stakeholder collaboration

Underwriting domain knowledge

Data analytics / analytics tools

Excellent communication

Travel availability

Education

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

Tools

Risk analytics tools

Portfolio management solutions

Underwriting systems

Job description

Moody's Corporation leads in transforming risk assessment and analytics across global markets. The company seeks a senior product leader for casualty and financial lines underwriting solutions to shape strategy, drive adoption, and deliver AI-enabled capabilities that turn insight into action.

You will work with underwriters, actuaries and executives to translate client needs into scalable products, contributing to market-leading risk analytics and portfolio management tools.