Technical Product Manager

Independence Pet Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health, dental & vision

Paid parental leave

HSA & FSA

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Independence Pet Holdings is seeking a Product Manager to lead roadmap development and feature strategy for our pet-health brands. You will collaborate with Marketing, Engineering, Legal, and Data teams to drive product outcomes and ensure alignment with business goals.

The role emphasizes working with partners on integrations, analyzing performance metrics, and delivering platform enhancements in a regulated industry. Prior experience in insurance or animal health is a bonus.

Qualifications

• 3–4 years of relevant product-management experience; partner/vendor integrations or vertical SaaS preferred.
• Bachelor’s or equivalent work experience; technical background helpful.
• Experience in insurance, animal health, or regulated/compliance-heavy vertical is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage product roadmaps and feature sets for business solutions.
• Collaborate with Marketing to define advertising strategy for products.
• Analyze metrics and work with data engineering to validate reporting accuracy.
• Lead multi-team projects and coordinate with vendors and internal partners.
• Translate technical tradeoffs into business impact for stakeholders.

Skills

Product management

Roadmap development

Stakeholder communication

Data analysis

API integrations

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Associate's Degree in Technical Field

Certification in relevant focus area

Job description

Established in 2021, Independence Pet Holdings is a corporate holding company that manages a diverse and broad portfolio of modern pet health brands and services, including insurance, pet education, lost recovery services, and more throughout North America. We believe pet insurance is more than a financial product and build solutions to simplify the pet parenting journey and help improve the well‑being of pets. As a leading authority in the pet category, we operate with a full stack of resources, capital, and services to support pet parents. Our multi‑brand and omni‑channel approach includes our own insurance carrier, insurance brands and partner brands.

Responsibilities

• Works with other Technology areas to make tactical decisions about product functionality.
• Manages projects that consist of a single development team.
• Proposes and manages demand for application work.
• Manages projects through all phases and milestones.
• Manages product feature/capability set for business solutions.
• Performs market and competitor analysis.
• Authors product requirement documents (PDDs) and technical specs to support engineering handoff and stakeholder alignment.
• Scopes and manages partner‑facing API and system‑to‑system integrations, coordinating with external technical teams through delivery.
• Translates technical tradeoffs into business impact for non‑technical stakeholders.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Experience

3‑4 years' relevant experience; experience with partner/vendor integrations or vertical SaaS strongly preferred.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience (One‑year relevant experience is equivalent to one‑year college)
• Associate's Degree in a Technical Field
• Certification in relevant focus area

Preferred

Experience in insurance, animal health, or another regulated/compliance‑heavy vertical.

Level Specific Responsibilities

• Creates and manages product roadmaps.
• Works with Marketing to determine advertising strategy for products.
• Analyzes metrics and measures product performance; comfortable working with data engineering to validate reporting accuracy.
• Manages larger projects that may consist of more than one development team.
• Works with platform development vendors and internal cross‑functional partners (Design, Legal, Data, Engineering) to provide technical management. Owns the delivery of platform and services.
• Manages product strategy and feature/capability set for business solutions.

Accountability/Complexity

• Works independently on moderately complex projects/assignments and seeks guidance on projects/assignments of higher complexity.
• May provide guidance and assistance to entry level professionals and/or support employees.

Benefits

• Comprehensive full medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Basic life insurance at no cost to the employee.
• Company paid short‑term and long‑term disability.
• 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave.
• Health savings account (HSA).
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA).
• Retirement savings plan.
• Personal paid time off.
• Paid holidays and company‑wide wellness day off.
• Paid time off to volunteer at nonprofit organizations.
• Pet friendly office environment.
• Commuter benefits.
• Group pet insurance.
• On‑the‑job training and skills development.
• Employee assistance program (EAP).