Program Manager, Rater & API Strategy

Porch Group; United States; Remote; USD 89,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan options

Dental plan options

Vision plan

Health Savings Account

401(k)

Job summary

Porch Group is seeking a Rater & Agency Integration Program Manager to own strategy, roadmap, and partner relationships for comparative rating platforms and large directly-integrated agencies. You will drive live launches on EZLynx, PL Rater, Bolt, and similar platforms, while migrating legacy connections to the Gateway API and optimizing connections for new business growth.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Sales teams to scope work, align with Distribution, and manage data

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in program management, integration program management, or partner/vendor program management, spanning technical and business stakeholders.
• Direct experience with comparative rater platforms (e.g., EZLynx, PL Rater, TurboRater/ITC, Bolt, or similar) and launching products/states/brands.
• Experience with agency connectivity, API gateway, or system migration programs, migrating to centralized API/gateway models.
• Experience as primary point of contact for external technical escalations across engineering, product, and distribution teams.
• Working knowledge of API integration patterns (REST, SOAP, gateway/proxy) to partner credibly with engineering.
• Strong governance: roadmapping, KPI definition, risk escalation, cross-team coordination.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with ability to engage senior leadership and partners.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and drive execution for new products, states, and brands on comparative rater platforms to accelerate growth.
• Serve as primary contact for rater and direct-agency integration issues, escalations, and migrations.
• Lead migration of raters and large agencies from point-to-point connections to the Gateway API.
• Translate roadmaps into scoped engineering work with inputs from product and engineering.
• Coordinate launch timing with Distribution leaders and external partners to minimize disruption.
• Maintain regular relationship touchpoints with rater partners to surface issues and identify improvements.
• Represent the team in National Partner calls and present to agents to ensure optimal rates.
• Define and track program KPIs such as time-to-live, migration velocity, uptime, quote volume, and conversion.
• Own project plan, timelines, and communications around integrations and risks.
• Audit data submission structures to identify mis-mapped fields and drive fixes with partners.
• Stay current on rating rules and eligibility; reflect changes in rater and Gateway integrations.
• Build monitoring to flag data-quality issues affecting rate competitiveness and alert Sales/Distribution.
• Establish governance/onboarding standards for new raters to prevent sprawl.
• Advise leadership on strategic opportunities in the rater and agency network.

Skills

Program management

Partner management

API gateways

Rater platforms

Stakeholder communication

Insurance industry

Technical liaison

Job description

Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform and is positioned to be the best partner to help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes. We offer differentiated products and services, with homeowners insurance at the center of this relationship.We differentiate and look to win in the massive and growing homeowners insurance opportunity by 1) providing the best services for homebuyers, 2) led by advantaged underwriting in insurance, 3) to protect the whole home.

As a leader in the home services software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) space, we’ve built deep relationships with approximately 30 thousand companies that are key to the home-buying transaction, such as home inspectors, mortgage companies, and title companies.

In 2020, Porch Group rang the Nasdaq bell and began trading under the ticker symbol PRCH. We are looking to build a truly great company and are JUST GETTING STARTED.

Job Title: Rater & Agency Integration Program Manager

Location: United States

Workplace Type: Remote

Job Summary

The future is bright for the Porch Group, and we’d love for you to be a part of it as our Rater & Agency Integration Program Manager.

Most of Porch’s new insurance business flows through the comparative rater channel, making this role a direct driver of written premium growth. As Rater & Agency Integration Program Manager, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and partner relationships for how comparative rating platforms — such as EZLynx, PL Rater, and Bolt — and large directly-integrated agencies connect into our business. You will serve as the single accountable owner for getting new products, states, and brands live on rater platforms quickly and reliably, migrating legacy point-to-point integrations onto our Gateway API, and ensuring every live connection is optimized to maximize new business production. Operating at the intersection of engineering, product, distribution, and external partners, you will also serve as the technical bridge to our Sales and Distribution teams — providing scoping support for strategic prospects and ensuring agents have what they need to capture the rates they’re eligible for.

What You Will Do As A Rater & Agency Integration Program Manager

• Own the roadmap and drive execution for getting new products, states, and brands live on comparative rater platforms (EZLynx, PL Rater, Bolt, and similar) in a timely fashion, treating launch speed as a direct driver of new business growth.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for all rater and direct-agency integration issues, escalations, and migration requests — triaging, prioritizing, and driving them to resolution across engineering, product, and distribution.
• Own the strategy and roadmap for migrating comparative raters and large directly-integrated agencies from point-to-point connections onto the Gateway API, sequencing migrations by business impact, technical readiness, and risk.
• Partner with the API Product Manager and Engineering Manager to translate launch and migration roadmaps into scoped, sequenced engineering work, ensuring requirements reflect real-world rater and agency workflows.
• Work closely with Distribution leaders to align launch and migration timing, minimize disruption to active business, and coordinate communication with external partners.
• Run regular, proactive relationship touchpoints with rater partners and large directly-integrated agencies to surface pain points ahead of escalation, negotiate timelines, and identify opportunities to expand or improve connectivity.
• Join National Partner calls as the technical face of the team — partnering with partner engineers and product teams, and presenting directly to agents, to ensure the best eligible rate is being displayed.
• Define and track program-level KPIs including time-to-live, migration velocity, integration uptime, quote volume, conversion, discount capture rate, rate leakage, and escalation resolution time, reporting progress and risk to leadership.
• Own and maintain the project plan, timelines, and communications around integrations, performance, and risks/issues.
• Audit how connected raters and agencies structure and submit data (fields, defaults, optional attributes) to identify mis-mapped or missing data that suppresses eligible discounts or defaults to a worse rate, and drive fixes with partners and engineering.
• Partner with Product and Underwriting to stay current on rating-rule, discount, and eligibility changes, and ensure they are reflected correctly across rater and Gateway integrations.
• Build monitoring and reporting to flag quotes or integrations where data-quality or mapping issues are suppressing rate competitiveness, and proactively alert Sales/Distribution when a change is detected.
• Establish governance and onboarding standards so new comparative raters or large agencies connect directly to the Gateway API going forward, preventing future integration sprawl.
• Identify and advise leadership on strategic opportunities within the rater and direct-agency network, including new integration patterns, competitive gaps, and growth opportunities.

What You Will Bring As A Rater & Agency Integration Program Manager

• 7+ years of experience in program management, integration program management, or partner/vendor program management, ideally spanning both technical and business stakeholder groups.
• Direct experience with comparative rater platforms (e.g., EZLynx, PL Rater, TurboRater/ITC, Bolt, or similar) and launching new products, states, or carriers/brands on them.
• Experience with agency connectivity, API gateway, or system migration programs — including migrating point-to-point or system-specific integrations to a centralized API or gateway model.
• Experience serving as the primary point of contact for external technical escalations, with demonstrated ability to triage, prioritize, and drive issues to resolution across teams.
• Working knowledge of API integration patterns (REST, SOAP, gateway/proxy architectures) sufficient to partner credibly with engineering without needing to be hands-on with implementation.
• Strong program governance skills: roadmapping, dependency management, KPI definition, and cross-team risk escalation.
• Demonstrated ability to build prioritization frameworks and communicate tradeoffs clearly to executive stakeholders, especially when launch speed and integration health compete for the same resources.
• Insurance industry experience (P&C, agency distribution, comparative rating, or carrier integrations) required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with comfort presenting recommendations to senior leadership and negotiating directly with agents, rater partners, and agency partners.
• Comfort partnering directly with a partner’s engineers to dig into submitted data and rating logic — not just confirming a connection is technically live — to improve competitive rate outcomes.
• Experience partnering with Sales or Business Development teams on scoping, feasibility, and technical credibility in front of a prospective partner.

The application window for this position is anticipated to close in 2 weeks (10 business days) from 9/11/2026. Please know this may change based on business and interviewing needs.

At this time, Porch Group does not consider applicants from the following states or jurisdictions for Remote positions: Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nebraska, Montana, New Hampshire, West Virginia, or the District of Columbia.

What You Will Get As A Porch Group Team Member

Pay Range*: $88,500 – $123,900 annually

Please know your actual pay at Porch will reflect a number of factors among which are your work experience and skillsets, job-related knowledge, alignment with market and our Porch employees, as well as your geographic location.

Additionally, you will be eligible to receive long-term incentive awards, subject to program guidelines and approvals.

Our benefits package will provide you with comprehensive coverage for your health, life, and financial wellbeing.

• Our traditional healthcare benefits include three (3) Medical plan options, two (2) Dental plan options, and a Vision plan from which to choose.
• Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity and Accident plans are offered on a voluntary basis.
• We offer pre-tax savings options including a partially employer funded Health Savings Account and employee Flexible Savings Accounts including healthcare, dependent care, and transportation savings options.
• We provide company paid Basic Life and AD&D, Short and Long-Term Disability benefits. We also offer Voluntary Life and AD&D plans.
• Both traditional and Roth 401(k) plans are available with a discretionary employer match.
• Supportlinc is part of our employer paid wellbeing program and provides employees and their families access to on demand guided meditation and mindfulness exercises, mental health coaching, clinical care and online access to confidential resources including will preparation.
• LifeBalance is a free resource to employees and their families for year-round discounts on things like gym memberships, travel, appliances, movies, pet insurance and more.
• Our wellness programs include flexible paid vacation, company-paid holidays of typically nine per year, paid sick time, paid parental leave, identity theft program, travel assistance, and fitness and other discounts programs.

Porch is committed to building an inclusive culture of belonging that not only embraces the diversity of our people but also reflects the diversity of the communities in which we work and the customers we serve. We know that the happiest and highest performing teams include people with diverse perspectives that encourage new ways of solving problems, so we strive to attract and develop talent from all backgrounds and create workplaces where everyone feels seen, heard and empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

Porch is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

Porch Group is an E-Verify employer. E-Verify is a web-based system that allows an employer to determine an employee’s eligibility to work in the US using information reported on an employee’s Form I-9. The E-Verify system confirms eligibility with both the Social Security Administration (SSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). For more information, please go to USCIS E-Verify website.