Product Manager - InsurTech

About Merito

Merito is a curated talent platform where we identify, assess, and connect candidates for matching job opportunities. We are working with the mission to change the way hiring is done. The company is founded by a team of alumni from IIM Ahmedabad, McKinsey with more than 2 decades of experience in recruitment, training, and coaching.

About The Client

Our client is an InsureTech platform backed by a major retail giant that offers contextual insurance in a blink.

We are a team of consumer obsessed & driven people. We want to reimagine insurance through a consumption lens for millions. We are a B2C and B2B2C platform that wants to simplify the way insurance is experienced with principles of transparency, trust and contextualize. The multiple ideas that we are building upon are all about an experience beyond the way insurance is understood or sold at present in India.

If you are a passionate mind with the courage to reimagine, execute and grow, you are most welcome to join hands with us in any form.

Product management is about customer obsession. It is about getting under the skin of our users, understanding both their stated as well as unstated needs, and solving for them.

Our Product team is composed of talented and driven problem-solvers. We never stop learning, we teach one another, and we take immense pride in our work. We are a small team and thus every individual has the opportunity to create a huge impact.

A sneak peak into the opportunity:

- 7+ million active customer base (Mostly acquired in last 6 months)

- 6+ million Insurance policies issued

- Created community for 2 & 4 Wheeler vehicle owners, in the beta version and onboarded 120K+ users in no time.

- A rapidly growing team in tech + product with some of the finest folks in the industry

- A rapidly growing team of PMs

- An opportunity to build products that influence insurance awareness and buying at the grassroot level.

Roles and Responsibilities:

We are creating various verticals such as acquisition, growth, partner integration (B2B2C) & community. You will have a very critical role to play as the leader of one or more of these verticals.

Being comfortable in the chaos of a fast-paced environment, dealing with ambiguity, penchant for innovation, an innate ability to get into details and drive execution excellence is essential to success in this profile. As a senior product leader, you will interact frequently with other key stakeholders during the research, design, and development process to build the product vision, iterate the product and partner on execution. You will shape the product strategy and roadmap for your products, and guide your team to build innovative and scalable products and drive execution excellence.

In this role, you will report to the VP of Product and also work closely with the founder to help shape our overall product roadmap to build high impact Insurance solutions.

Preferred Qualifications :

- 5+ years proven experience at building high-impact products at scale, preferably in a fast-paced B2C internet/e-commerce company

- B.Tech / MBA or equivalent experience from premier schools

- Experience in building & leading high-performance teams

- Ability to operate in a very fast-paced, constantly changing and evolving environment

- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product and technology and coming up with long term Product roadmaps aligned to the company strategic direction

- Good business smarts along with strong problem solving and metrics orientation

- Design thinking, user empathy and deep understanding of Indian customers

- Good technical understanding with an ability to be hands-on with Engineering teams for implementation and trade-offs

- Crisp written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to work with a diverse set of stakeholders and manage senior stakeholders