Principal Product Manager - CoreCONNECT Platform

Sureify; United States; On-site; USD 205,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Sureify is seeking a Principal Product Manager to own our high-impact API expansion for life and annuity carriers. This “Super IC” role focuses on strategic leadership without people management, serving as the functional architect for CoreCONNECT APIs and driving a scalable API suite.

You will collaborate with marketing, sales, and customers to shape a market-leading API layer and represent Sureify in industry standards groups. Base salary shown below reflects US market norms.

Qualifications

• Product Architect with strong customer insight and strategy.
• Experience owning an enterprise software product with high-touch direct sales.
• Experience in a highly configurable enterprise market (Insurance/Fintech/Healthtech).
• API-first mindset; define developer-facing requirements for APIs and SI partners.
• Track record turning vague market opportunities into concrete products.
• Based in the US/Americas; able to work with US carriers/time zones.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term roadmap for external-facing APIs that provide a competitive edge to carriers.
• Define how external APIs evolve alongside the CoreCONNECT platform for carriers and partners.
• Seed the market for the new API area by collaborating with marketing, sales, and customers.
• Represent Sureify in industry groups shaping IRI DFA standards and related industry initiatives.
• Engage with carriers to understand friction points and how APIs solve them.
• Author clear specifications for complex API workflows with high configurability.
• Collaborate with engineering to build a scalable, developer-friendly API layer.
• Align stakeholders across product, engineering, professional services, and sales.

Skills

Product Architect

Product Leadership

Enterprise Complexity

API-First Mindset

Strategic Autonomy

Based in US/Americas

Job description

About Sureify

Sureify is on a mission to modernize the life insurance and annuity industry. Our enterprise SaaS platform, CoreCONNECT, enables carriers to bridge the gap between legacy systems and modern digital experiences on web, mobile, and AI. We are currently expanding our suite to support more integrations across our industry, such as the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) Digital First for Annuities (DFA) standards. This is a critical initiative that will redefine how annuities are sold and serviced in a digital-first world.

About the Role

Sureify is seeking a Principal Product Manager to serve as a high-level individual contributor. This is a "Super IC" role designed for a seasoned product leader who prefers deep-diving into complex domains and driving massive strategic impact without the overhead of people management.

You will be the functional architect and strategist for our new API expansion, including the IRI DFA API product area. This is a high-stakes, V1-to-Scale opportunity. You will be responsible for creating a robust, highly configurable API suite for the life and annuity carriers that are our customers.

What You’ll Do

• Strategic Impact: Define the long-term roadmap for external-facing APIs from CoreCONNECT ensuring they don't just meet technical standards but provide a competitive edge for carriers.
• Vision & Roadmapping: Define how external APIs evolve into and alongside our CoreCONNECT platform, enabling carriers and partners to build differentiated experiences on top of a flexible, extensible API layer.
• Evangelism: Seed the market for an emerging product area by working with marketing, sales, and potential customers.
• Industry Representation: Serve as Sureify’s representative and thought leader in industry working groups shaping IRI Digital First for Annuities standards, influencing how carriers, distributors, and vendors define and adopt modern annuity APIs.
• Voice of the Customer: Engage deeply with carriers and distributors to understand the friction points in the current ecosystem and how our APIs can solve them.
• Feature Specification: Author clear, actionable specs for complex API workflows that account for high configurability requirements.
• Product Delivery: Partner closely with engineering to build a high-performance, scalable API layer. You’ll ensure the product is "developer-friendly" for both internal professional services teams and external systems integrators.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Align internal stakeholders on our strategy and roadmap. Partner with product engineering to build, with professional services to ensure the APIs are easily deployable in the field, and with sales to help close customers.

What We’re Looking For

Must-Have Qualifications

• The "Shape" of a Leader: You are a "Product Architect" (strong in Customer Insight and Strategy) who knows how to "Build" (strong in Execution).
• Product Leadership: Owned a product within an enterprise software market with high-touch direct sales.
• Enterprise Complexity: Experience in a highly concentrated, enterprise market (Insurance, Fintech, or Healthtech) where software must be highly configurable and integrated by 3rd parties.
• API-First Mindset: You understand that an API is the product. You have experience defining technical requirements for developers and system integrators.
• Strategic Autonomy: A proven track record of taking a vague market opportunity (like a new industry standard) and turning it into a concrete, successful product.
• Based in the US/Americas: Ability to work effectively with US-based carriers and time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Annuity/Life Insurance Domain Expertise: Familiarity with the annuity lifecycle, distribution channels, and carrier operations is a massive plus.
• PaaS/Platform Experience: Experience building "Lego block" style software that allows carriers to build their own unique experiences on top of your foundation.
• Industry Standards Body Experience: Prior involvement with an industry standards body like IRI, ISO or ACORD.

Why Join Sureify?

This is a unique opportunity to own a critical piece of industry infrastructure. If you love the challenge of "blueprinting" the future of an industry and seeing your work become the standard, we want to talk to you.

Base annual salary

$205,000 — $230,000 USD

Our Guiding Principles

Our products are for nothing if their creators are not fulfilled in their work. We want our employees to flourish at Sureify. We do not fawn over status or titles, instead, we honor effort and intelligence. The best idea wins no matter which colleague proposed it. We do not shortcut our mission with overblown claims or false promises. Sticking to the truth is both a strategy and a principle for us.

Sureify is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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