Jr. Product Manager

Novacore; Conshohocken (Montgomery County); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Novacore is seeking a Junior Product Manager to join our Conshohocken, PA Home Office in a hybrid capacity. You will support the product management team in developing AI‑enabled and automation solutions across our MGA value chain, translating needs from underwriting and operations into clear requirements.

Working with senior PMs, you’ll help deliver MVPs, enable agile delivery, and track KPIs like speed-to-quote and triage accuracy.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of experience in product management, business analysis, or a related role, preferably in B2B SaaS, enterprise automation, or insurance technology.
• Interest in or basic familiarity with the insurance or MGA space — especially specialty lines, underwriting workflows, and E&S operations.
• Exposure to AI, automation, or API‑driven products, with curiosity about how they are built.
• Comfortable working with data — able to pull, analyze, and summarize information to support product decisions (e.g., Excel, SQL, or BI tools).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills — able to work directly with engineers, underwriters, and external partners.
• Well organized, with the ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize, and follow through on deliverables in a fast‑paced environment.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, receptive to feedback, and eager to learn how to turn fuzzy workflows into structured product features.

Responsibilities

• Support product managers in maintaining the roadmap and backlog for automation and AI solutions spanning intake, triage, underwriting, quoting, and policy ops across programs.
• Gather business needs from underwriting, actuarial, and operations and help translate them into user stories, product requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with engineering teams, vendor partners, and internal business units to help deliver MVPs and iterate quickly, including supporting sprint planning and backlog refinement.
• Support adoption of intelligent workflows that replace manual processes with AI agents and traditional automation, including user documentation, training materials, and feedback collection.
• Coordinate day‑to‑day cross‑functional delivery from ideation through testing, feedback, and production rollout, including user acceptance testing, action item tracking, and status updates.
• Help track success metrics and report on business impact (e.g., speed‑to‑quote, triage accuracy, loss ratio improvements) through dashboards and regular reporting.
• Build a working understanding of regulatory, underwriting, and specialty program constraints and how they impact product design.
• Support efforts to protect Novacore’s proprietary logic and workflows from vendor lock‑in by documenting business rules and workflows clearly.

Skills

Product management

Business analysis

Communication

Data analysis

Agile

Tools

Jira

Excel

SQL

BI tools

Job description

Why join the Novacoreteam?

Because your next stellar chapter starts here — and we’re building something bold and meaningful.

At Novacore, we’re not your average insurance company. We’re a team of driven professionals passionate about redefining the specialty insurance experience for our agents, carrier partners — and for each other.

We specialize in tailored solutions for niche industries, powered by advanced analytics, modern technology and a culture of innovation. Backed by strong leadership and strategic growth initiatives, Novacore is poised to scale and lead in the specialty insurance market.

But at our core, we believe it’s not just what we do — it’s how we do it and who we do it with.

Recognized as a top workplace, Novacore is a place where ambition is supported, growth is continuous and culture matters. From day one, you’ll find mentorship, hands‑on learning and clear paths for advancement. You’ll grow your skills, expand your expertise and become even more exceptional — because when you succeed, we all do.

We offer:

• A collaborative, results‑driven environment
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits
• Year‑round social and community events
• Ongoing mentorship and professional development
• Endless opportunities for upward mobility

So if you’re ready to be part of something extraordinary — with a team that’s transforming commercial insurance — we want to meet you.

Jr. Product Manager

The Junior Product Manager will support the product management team in developing AI‑enabled, agentic, and traditional automation solutions across our MGA value chain.

Working alongside and under the guidance of senior product managers, this role helps translate needs from underwriting, operations, and technology teams into clear requirements, supports the delivery of products that automate manual workflows and orchestrate decisioning through LLM‑powered agents, and tracks the results as Novacore scales its differentiated underwriting capabilities. This is a hands‑on learning role with a clear path toward owning product areas.

**Ideally this role will sit at the Conshohocken, PA Home Office on a hybrid situation**

Responsibilities:

• Support product managers in maintaining the roadmap and backlog for automation and AI solutions spanning intake, triage, underwriting, quoting, and policy ops across programs.
• Gather business needs from underwriting, actuarial, and operations and help translate them into user stories, product requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with engineering teams, vendor partners, and internal business units to help deliver MVPs and iterate quickly, including supporting sprint planning and backlog refinement.
• Support adoption of intelligent workflows that replace manual processes with AI agents and traditional automation, including user documentation, training materials, and feedback collection.
• Coordinate day‑to‑day cross‑functional delivery from ideation through testing, feedback, and production rollout, including user acceptance testing, action item tracking, and status updates.
• Help track success metrics and report on business impact (e.g., speed‑to‑quote, triage accuracy, loss ratio improvements) through dashboards and regular reporting.
• Build a working understanding of regulatory, underwriting, and specialty program constraints and how they impact product design.
• Support efforts to protect Novacore’s proprietary logic and workflows from vendor lock‑in by documenting business rules and workflows clearly.

Qualifications:

• 1–2 years of experience in product management, business analysis, or a related role, preferably in B2B SaaS, enterprise automation, or insurance technology.
• Interest in or basic familiarity with the insurance or MGA space — especially specialty lines, underwriting workflows, and E&S operations — and eagerness to learn.
• Exposure to AI, automation, or API‑driven products, with curiosity about how they are built.
• Comfortable working with data — able to pull, analyze, and summarize information to support product decisions (e.g., Excel, SQL, or BI tools).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills — able to work directly with engineers, underwriters, and external partners.
• Well organized, with the ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize, and follow through on deliverables in a fast‑paced environment.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, receptive to feedback, and eager to learn how to turn fuzzy workflows into structured product features.
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_ Preferred Qualifications: Understanding of agile delivery and tools such as Jira; basic familiarity with agent orchestration, document intelligence, or intelligent intake pipelines is a plus.Exposure to modern insurance core systems is a plus.