Associate Product Manager

Standard Casualty Company is hiring an Associate Product Manager in New Braunfels, TX (onsite) to help strengthen and expand its Insurance Division product portfolio. This role blends product strategy with hands-on analytics, supporting initiatives from planning through implementation while partnering across IT, Operations, Underwriting, Compliance, and Actuarial.

What you’ll do

• Own performance for an assigned product, territory, or partner portfolio, with accountability for driving profitable premium growth, meeting performance targets, and executing corrective actions when results fall short.
• Build and maintain product dashboards and analyze key results such as premium, loss ratios, policy growth, retention, new business, and operating performance by state and segment.
• Investigate performance drivers, evaluate alternatives and business tradeoffs, and present leadership with actionable recommendations.
• Track market developments, competitor offerings, and partner feedback to identify opportunities for profitable growth and product improvement.
• Lead assigned product workstreams from opportunity assessment and business requirements through approved implementation and results tracking.
• Support new product development and enhancements involving coverage, forms, endorsements, rates, and underwriting rules, building practical knowledge of the company’s product architecture.
• Help expand into additional states by coordinating product requirements, regulatory filings, and implementation activities across internal teams and external partners.
• Partner with IT and Operations on requirements, testing, documentation, and rollout, tracking issues to resolution and communicating status and risks.
• Act as a product contact for business partners by understanding needs, resolving issues with internal teams, and finding ways to strengthen and grow the relationship.
• Coordinate product filings and state insurance department follow-up with Actuarial, Compliance, and Underwriting, maintaining submission records, deadlines, and required documentation.
• Monitor regulatory changes impacting assigned products and coordinate approved responses and implementation with the right specialists.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions across Claims, Sales, IT, Operations, Underwriting, and other stakeholders to align priorities and establish workstream ownership.
• Manage deliverables, communicate recommendations and responses, escalate barriers promptly, and measure the impact of implemented changes.
• Operate within delegated decision and approval authority, obtaining required technical, regulatory, and leadership approvals before committing to material changes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What you bring

• Strong analytical reasoning and business acumen, with the ability to translate insurance performance data into practical decisions and recommendations.
• Working knowledge of P&C insurance products and underwriting concepts, including risk selection, coverage, pricing drivers, and profitability, with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical specialists.
• Ability to own assignments, prioritize independently, solve problems, and follow through on measurable outcomes.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including relationship management, negotiation, and influence across teams without direct reporting authority.
• Strong Excel skills and experience using data analysis or reporting tools; attention to detail, sound judgment, confidentiality, and effective deadline management.
• Curiosity, learning agility, receptiveness to feedback, and ability to take on broader responsibilities over time.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Economics, Insurance, Risk Management, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• Typically 3–5 years of experience in P&C product analysis, product development, product management, pricing, underwriting analytics, or a related insurance role, including exposure to insurance product initiatives.

Tools you’ll use

• Excel, Power BI, SQL, SERFF

Preferred background

• Personal lines, property, homeowners, or manufactured home insurance
• Participation in new product development, enhancements, or state launches
• Partner coordination
• Regulatory filings or SERFF experience
• Power BI, SQL, or similar tools
• Relevant insurance coursework or designations
• MBA or other relevant advanced degree preferred

No supervisory responsibilities: This position leads through influence by coordinating workstreams, securing commitments, negotiating priorities, and following through on deliverables with functional leaders and partners.