Project Manager

mission-underwriting-services; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Medical benefits

401K plan

Life & disability

Paid time off

11 paid holidays

Employee discounts

EAP

Educational assistance

Referral program

Parental leave

Job summary

Mission Underwriting Services seeks a results-driven Project Manager to deliver complex cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced insurtech environment. You will lead planning, governance, and execution across insurance operations, product, technology, and data teams, ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality targets while managing risk and stakeholder expectations.

Strong business acumen, influential leadership, and disciplined project management are required to drive

Responsibilities

• Lead complex business, operational, product, and technology projects from initiation through implementation and closeout.
• Establish the project governance and delivery structure, scope, objectives, success measures, milestones, and implementation approach.
• Translate strategic business objectives into actionable project plans with clearly defined deliverables, owners, dependencies, and timelines.
• Assume accountability for overall project performance, including scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and business outcomes.
• Drive project execution across cross-functional teams, ensuring that commitments are understood, monitored, and completed.
• Maintain delivery momentum by identifying obstacles, resolving conflicts, and facilitating timely decisions.
• Evaluate project performance and implement corrective actions when results deviate from approved plans.
• Ensure projects transition successfully into ongoing business operations, with clear ownership and support models following implementation.

Job description

About Mission Underwriting Services

At Mission Underwriters, we provide the capital, issuing paper, and reinsurance access you need to launch your own Program Administrator (PA) business quickly and efficiently. We offer non-recourse capital for qualified underwriters, giving you a manageable risk profile with potential equity upside. By taking care of administrative complexities like compliance, risk management, accounting, and HR, we free you to focus on what you do best underwriting and distribution. Our turnkey platform gets you into the market in just a few months, minimizing disruption to your key relationships. With access to our network of highly rated issuing carriers and reinsurance partners, you can secure coverage with less stress and uncertainty. Built from the ground up, our purpose-driven technology simplifies workflows, enhances responsiveness, and eliminates the burden of outdated legacy systems.

What We Offer:

• Remote First Work Environment (US Based)
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401K, 401K Match
• Life and Disability Benefits
• Unaccrued Paid Time Off
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Employee Discounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Educational Assistance Program
• Employee Referral Program
• Paid Parental Leave

About the role

The Project Manager is accountable for the successful delivery of complex, cross-functional business and technology initiatives within a fast-paced Insurtech environment. This position leads projects from planning through implementation, transition, and closeout, ensuring that intended business outcomes are achieved within approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk parameters.

The Project Manager provides structure and leadership across multidisciplinary teams that may include insurance operations, underwriting, product, technology, data, finance, compliance, legal, and external partners. This individual is accountable for planning, coordinating, governing, and delivering projects including driving execution, facilitating critical decisions, managing competing priorities, and maintaining accountability across all levels of the project.

Successful candidates will combine disciplined project management expertise with business acumen, sound judgment, and the ability to lead through influence in an evolving, technology-enabled insurance organization.

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership and Delivery

• Lead complex business, operational, product, and technology projects from initiation through implementation and closeout.
• Establish the project governance and delivery structure, scope, objectives, success measures, milestones, and implementation approach.
• Translate strategic business objectives into actionable project plans with clearly defined deliverables, owners, dependencies, and timelines.
• Assume accountability for overall project performance, including scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and business outcomes.
• Drive project execution across cross-functional teams, ensuring that commitments are understood, monitored, and completed.
• Maintain delivery momentum by identifying obstacles, resolving conflicts, and facilitating timely decisions.
• Evaluate project performance and implement corrective actions when results deviate from approved plans.
• Ensure projects transition successfully into ongoing business operations, with clear ownership and support models following implementation.

Scope, Schedule, and Budget Management

• Define, validate, and manage project scope in partnership with executive sponsors, business owners, and key stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans that account for business, operational, technical, vendor, and regulatory dependencies.
• Establish realistic schedules based on project complexity, resource capacity, organizational priorities, and implementation requirements.
• Develop, manage, and monitor project budgets, forecasts, vendor costs, and financial performance, as applicable.
• Assess the impact of requested changes to scope, schedule, cost, resources, risk, and anticipated benefits.
• Lead formal change-control processes and obtain appropriate stakeholder approval before implementing material changes.
• Provide transparent reporting on project health, financial status, delivery risks, and forecasted outcomes.

Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management

• Proactively identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.
• Develop mitigation, contingency, and recovery plans for risks that could affect delivery or business outcomes.
• Evaluate the business impact and urgency of project issues and drive timely resolution with accountable owners.
• Escalate significant decisions, risks, resource constraints, and delivery concerns to project sponsors and PMO leadership.
• Monitor dependencies across projects, systems, business areas, vendors, and implementation workstreams.
• Apply sound judgment to balance speed, quality, cost, risk, and business value when recommending a course of action.
• Maintain clear decision, risk, issue