AI-Powered Underwriting Product Lead

NSU AWAC Services Company; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k plan

Life insurance

Job summary

Allied World is seeking a Senior Product Owner for Data + AI underwriting capabilities to translate bold AI ambition into shipped features across submission triage, risk scoring, pricing, and portfolio management.

You'll partner with underwriting, actuarial, claims, and distribution leaders to identify high-value AI use cases and lead end-to-end product delivery from discovery through adoption, ensuring governance, explainability, and measurable ROI.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a Product Owner / Product Manager with 3+ years shipping Data/Analytics/AI/ML products in regulated enterprises.
• Deep P&C Insurance domain expertise including underwriting, rate changes, loss ratio, submissions, portfolio mix, authority statements.
• Proven AI delivery track record moving GenAI, ML models, NLP, or agentic AI from POC to production at scale.
• Executive-level communication capable of briefing a CIO in three slides and writing engineers' user stories.
• Agile mastery including backlog ruthlessness, sprint discipline, and outcome focus.
• Technical fluency: SQL, Python, Databricks/AWS/Azure, Power BI, and LLM/AI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product vision, roadmap, and OKRs for Data + AI underwriting capabilities, including GenAI copilots and insights ecosystem.
• Partner with Underwriting, Actuarial, Claims, and Distribution to identify high-value AI use cases and ship automation and risk analytics.
• Lead full product lifecycle: discovery, prioritization, user stories, sprint execution, UAT, launch, and adoption with engineering and data teams.
• Coordinate stakeholder communication; run monthly Data + AI product reviews with senior leaders.
• Champion Responsible AI: governance, explainability, data quality, and regulatory alignment.
• Define adoption metrics and ROI and track progress across the organization.

Skills

Product Owner

Product Manager

AI/ML products

Executive communication

Agile/Scrum

Technical fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SQL

Python

Databricks

Azure

AWS

Power BI

LLM platforms

Job description

Allied World is seeking a Senior Product Owner for Data + AI underwriting capabilities to translate bold AI ambition into shipped features across submission triage, risk scoring, pricing, and portfolio management.

You'll partner with underwriting, actuarial, claims, and distribution leaders to identify high-value AI use cases and lead end-to-end product delivery from discovery through adoption, ensuring governance, explainability, and measurable ROI.