Associate Insurance Product Manager

Cover Genius; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cover Genius is seeking an Associate Insurance Product Manager in Asia to own end-to-end delivery of standard travel insurance product launches with local underwriters and to support complex RFP responses. You will manage relationships with insurers, drive pricing, and track regulatory compliance.

The role emphasizes autonomy in launching products, coordinating with Partnerships, Compliance, and Product Ops, and delivering regular portfolio performance updates.

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience in general insurance product, pricing, or underwriting-facing roles.
• Experience running product launches or implementations with underwriters/insurers.
• Working knowledge of product construction, pricing mechanics, and policy wording.
• Experience coordinating cross-functionally to deliver against deadlines.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; postgraduate degree is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Run standard travel product launches end-to-end - sourcing, product construct, pricing setup, testing, go-live - semi-independently with local underwriters, escalating complex or strategic items to senior IPMs.
• Responsible for owning all incoming RFP responses as the Insurance product owner.
• Own day-to-day relationship management with assigned local insurers/underwriters (reporting, queries, renewals, routine issues).
• Manage ongoing portfolio for existing standard products: pricing reviews, product optimisation, policy wording updates, regulatory and compliance tracking.
• Absorb backlog and BAU volume from senior IPMs (e.g., existing-partner optimisations, standard-market rollouts).
• Coordinate with Partnerships, Compliance, and Product Ops to keep launches on schedule.
• Provide regular reporting on launch pipeline and portfolio performance, including commentary at meetings as needed.

Skills

General insurance product

Pricing mechanics

Underwriting-facing experience

Cross-functional coordination

Bachelor's degree in related field

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Job description

About The Company

Cover Genius is a Series E Insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Hopper, Skyscanner, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee.

About The Company

Cover Genius is a Series E Insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Hopper, Skyscanner, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee.

Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year. Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times who ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commits itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired

Our People are not Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious

About The Role

Cover Genius is seeking an Associate Insurance Product Manager to join our Insurance Product team in Asia, owning the end-to-end delivery of standard, repeatable travel insurance product launches (CTI) semi-independently with local underwriters as well as supporting our partnerships team on complex RFP responses.

Key Responsibilities

• Run standard travel product launches end-to-end - sourcing, product construct, pricing setup, testing, go-live - semi-independently with local underwriters, escalating complex or strategic items to senior IPMs
• Responsible for owning all incoming RFP responses as the Insurance product owner
• Own day-to-day relationship management with assigned local insurers/underwriters (reporting, queries, renewals, routine issues)
• Manage ongoing portfolio for existing standard products: pricing reviews, product optimisation, policy wording updates, regulatory and compliance tracking
• Absorb backlog and BAU volume from senior IPMs (e.g., existing-partner optimisations, standard-market rollouts)
• Coordinate with Partnerships, Compliance, and Product Ops to keep launches on schedule
• Provide regular reporting on launch pipeline and portfolio performance, including commentary at meetings as needed

Skills And Experience

What you will bring

• 3+ years' experience in general insurance product, pricing, or underwriting-facing roles - travel or embedded/digital insurance distribution experience strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience running product launches or implementations with underwriters/insurers, ideally with some autonomy
• Working knowledge of product construction, pricing mechanics, and policy wording
• Experience coordinating cross-functionally to deliver against deadlines
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; a postgraduate degree is a plus but not required

What You Will Have

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work with datasets, identify trends, and summarise insights clearly.
• Proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets (e.g., pivots, lookups, filtering, basic formulas).
• Strong attention to detail and a structured approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deliver outputs within agreed timelines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work with cross-functional teams (Operations, Finance, Reporting, etc.).
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Nice to have: exposure to SEA insurance regulatory landscape

Why Cover Genius?

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?

• Flexible Work Environment
• Global company, with the opportunity to work from any of our offices for 4 weeks a year
• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.
• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!

• Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

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