External Advertising Title Lead Product Manager

IVANS Insurance Solutions; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ivans, a division of Applied Systems, is looking for a Lead Product Manager to own the vision and strategy for Submissions Manager, an AI-powered tool that manages commercial submissions in Applied Epic. You will define the roadmap, drive adoption, and align cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.

This role requires 7–10 years in product management for a B2B workflow product, deep user empathy, and strong analytical storytelling.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of product management experience, delivering outcomes at scale.
• Experience owning a B2B workflow product with multi-step processes.
• Strong user research, analytics, and data-driven storytelling.
• Familiarity with Agile development and tools like Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the product vision and long-term strategy for Submissions Manager.
• Own adoption and activation strategy and guide product direction at scale.
• Identify and prioritize research initiatives with users and partners.
• Oversee cross-functional execution across design, engineering, marketing, CX, and ops.
• Lead execution in a multi-team environment and remove blockers.
• Identify integration opportunities with adjacent Applied product areas.
• Own roadmap prioritization and product requirements for Submissions Manager.
• Define and track metrics and communicate strategy to leadership.

Skills

Product management

Agile

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Job Description

Team: Ivans Product Management

Salary Range: $135,000–$210,000 USDLocation: Remote (US)

Opportunity for Impact

Ivans, a division of Applied Systems, is where insurance technology gets reinvented, and we build it fast. Our cloud software and AI-powered solutions reach thousands of agencies and brokers worldwide, setting the pace for what modern insurance can do.

We’re looking for a Lead Product Manager to join our Submissions Manager Product Management team and own product vision and strategy for Submissions Manager, Applied’s AI-powered platform for managing commercial insurance submissions in Applied Epic.

Submissions Manager is Applied’s AI-powered platform to manage commercial submissions in Applied Epic, the world’s most widely used insurance agency management system. As the foundation of Applied’s strategy to remove friction between agencies and carriers, it centralizes the distributed channels insurance agents use to conduct business and brings transparency to the agency-carrier trading relationship. By stripping the manual work out of agencies’ commercial insurance submissions, Submissions Manager improves the quality of what carriers receive and helps more business get written faster. We’re looking for someone who brings expert product intuition, a track record of delivering business outcomes for a B2B product embedded in a broader platform ecosystem, and a drive to build experiences that make agents’ lives meaningfully better every day. The decisions you’ll drive will impact thousands of commercial lines agents on Applied Epic and contribute to business outcomes for agencies and carriers alike.

What You’ll Do

• Define and lead the product vision and long-term strategy for Submissions Manager, grounded in a deep understanding of the problems it solves for our agency personas and where it sits between the marketing process and the bind workflow of commercial submissions
• Own adoption and activation strategy — understand what drives agencies to adopt Submissions Manager and users to activate within it, and set product direction that changes that behavior at scale
• Identify and prioritize research initiatives with users and design partners, using what we learn to validate hypotheses and guide product direction with cross-functional and senior product leadership
• Oversee cross-functional execution across design, engineering, product marketing, customer experience, and operations, resolving complex dependencies and keeping multiple initiatives aligned and moving
• Lead execution across a dynamic, multi-team environment, anticipating roadblocks before they surface and removing them with minimal oversight
• Proactively identify and own integration opportunities with adjacent Applied product areas — particularly upstream placement channels and downstream bind workflows — driving roadmap alignment through influence
• Own roadmap prioritization and product requirements within Submissions Manager, ensuring engineering and design always have a deep, shared understanding of what we’re building and why
• Define and track the metrics that matter, and communicate product strategy aligned with key business outcomes clearly to executive leadership and senior stakeholders

What We’re Looking For

• Experience owning a B2B workflow product — multi-step, multi-role processes with handoffs between users, where success means real work getting done faster and with less effort
• 7-10 years of product management experience, with a track record of owning strategy and delivering outcomes at scale for a product or product suite
• Deep empathy for users paired with practiced user research skills — identifying core pain points, prioritizing research topics, running discovery, and synthesizing findings into long-term strategy
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to lead product instrumentation and turn data into insight-led narratives for senior and executive stakeholders
• Experience mentoring or informally guiding other product managers
• Exceptional written communication — strategic narratives, executive summaries, and business cases that influence senior leadership decisions
• Familiarity with Agile development and tools like Jira and Confluence

Bonus points if you also have:

• Experience building products embedded within larger platform ecosystems (e.g., Salesforce apps, Microsoft 365 add-ins, ERP extensions)
• Familiarity with AI-assisted workflows — having shipped features involving AI automation, and an understanding of the trade-offs in keeping humans in the loop
• Insurance industry experience is a genuine plus, but it’s not a prerequisite — we’ll teach you the domain

Talent shows up in a lot of different ways, and we mean that. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and experience levels, including military members and their spouses and those without a traditional degree or tech background.

Why You’ll Like Working on Team Applied

How We’ll Support You

We invest in the whole person, not just the role. Our benefits and resources are built to support your health, your time, and your life outside of work:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Holiday and Vacation Time
• Health & Wellness Days
• A Bonus Day for Your Birthday

Compensation Transparency

Our targeted starting base salary in the United States for this position considers a variety of factors, including depth and breadth of experience, skills and role scope. Depending on the role, team members may also be eligible for additional compensation plans (bonus and commission).

Your Security Matters:Our candidates’ personal information and online safety are top of mind. Applied communicates with candidates only via a secure @appliedsystems.com email address or through our official careers portal. Recruiters will never request payments or ask for financial account or sensitive personal information like Social Security numbers.

AI Utilization

We leverage AI tools to streamline parts of our recruitment workflow (such as resume parsing and interview scheduling). However, final decisions are always conducted by real humans.

EEO Statement

Applied Systems is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Diversity and Inclusion is a business imperative and is a part of building our brand and reputation. At Applied, we don’t discriminate, and we are committed to recruit, develop, retain, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

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