The Opportunity
Root is looking for a Senior Product Manager to define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the platforms that power our pricing advantage. This is a highly cross-functional PM role focused on enabling faster, higher-quality pricing decisions and model deployment across the company.
You’ll own critical pricing capabilities and lead the evolution of the infrastructure, tooling, and decisioning systems at the center of Root’s rating engine.
Pricing is one of Root’s core strategic advantages, and this role will shape the systems that determine how quickly we turn data and models into market-leading pricing decisions.
Salary Range: $125,500 - $156,100 (Eligible for competitive bonus and equity offering)
Root is a “work where it works best” company. Meaning we will support you working in whatever location that works best for you across the US. We will continue to have our headquarters in Columbus, Ohio.
How You Will Make an Impact
- Own the pricing roadmap and evolve the vision for 2027 and beyond.
- Set direction and prioritize work across engineering, from discovery through launch and iteration.
- Speed up the path from new data and model features to production deployment.
- Help Data Science and Analytics evaluate data sources efficiently through documented research processes and reliable data quality checks.
- Improve the reliability, latency, observability, cost, and usability of data services used by internal systems such as the pricing engine and UMS.
- Build self-service tools for experimentation and feature creation; reduce operational and regulatory bottlenecks in pricing and filing workflows.
- Support nationwide expansion by adapting pricing capabilities to new states and lead expansion into one or two new markets
- Partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Actuarial, Risk Mitigation, Legal, Compliance, and State Management.
- Lead the definition and governance of robust internal and external API contracts and event-driven data architectures
What You Will Need to Succeed
- 4+ years of product management experience, ideally in fintech, insurtech, or another data-intensive regulated environment.
- Experience embedded with an engineering team, working closely with engineers through product discovery, delivery, and iteration.
- Strong systems thinking and comfort with technical concepts such as APIs, data pipelines, predictive models, and workflow orchestration.
- Experience working with data science teams and using data to guide product decisions.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to make complex technical concepts clear.
- A customer-focused approach
- Strong prioritization and execution skills, with the ability to manage ambiguity and influence across teams.
- Experience in agile development and the ability to balance business, user, and compliance needs.
- Experience working in a regulated industry or in fintech
- Willingness to travel up to 10% for quarterly in-person team events.
Preferred
- Experience working in the auto insurance industry
- Graduate degree in business or a quantitative discipline, such as MBA, economics, statistics, mathematics, or data science.
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Root was founded on the belief that car insurance is broken, and we set out to change it. We’re harnessing the power of technology to revolutionize this archaic, complicated industry. Using machine learning and mobile telematic platforms, we’ve built one of the most innovative insurtech companies in the world.