Product Manager at HDVI

What we do

HDVI is modern insurance for today’s fleets driven by service, safety and savings. With real-time telematics data informing our risk models, we help lower premiums, mitigate risk, engage and reward drivers and simply put, offer uncomplicated protection for trucking fleets. Our customers are small to midsize truck fleet operators who benefit from dynamic and transparent pricing – automatically reducing their premiums for safer driving. Leveraging a best-in-class partner ecosystem, HDVI combines magnitude and stability with innovation to revolutionize commercial trucking insurance.

Why work here

HDVI is building the industry-defining commercial auto insurance company for the next 100 years. The $50 billion commercial auto industry hasn’t seen real innovation for decades and is broken in a number of ways, creating a significant opportunity for HDVI.

HDVI is co-founded by a former Esurance co-founder, and has a senior management team with experience building innovative insurance and logistics companies from zero to $1B+ enterprises and deep expertise in trucking insurance. HDVI is well-funded by leading logistics and mobility-focused venture capital firms and strategic investors, including 8VC, Munich Re, and Daimler Trucks.

The HDVI Team is values-driven, data-driven, ambitious, and collaboratively minded, with a diverse background of experiences and skills in the insurance and logistics industries. We like challenges and building solutions that improve the quality of life for our customers. We offer generous benefits, including employee stock options, health, dental, vision, 401k, flexible work environment, and unlimited PTO.

Where we are

Beautiful downtown Chicago, IL near the Daley Center, close to all public transportation nodes. Alternate team locations include Greenville, SC; Columbus, OH; Dallas, TX; Austin, TX; Portland, OR. Full-time remote work optional with occasional travel to team offices as needed.

About the Role

You will be a full-spectrum product manager that will drive ideas into a modern insurance platform focusing on tools that agents, fleets and underwriters use to better understand risk, request and manage insurance coverages, manage safety and more. This includes building on our proprietary web application with a mix of web-based features and integrations between various Core Systems components, proprietary and third party APIs. Interface directly with engineering teams using agile methodologies like scrum, kanban, squads, and guilds. Manage epics and stories from inception to deployment. Collaborate with designers on mockup/prototype creation, user research. Coordinate roadmap objectives and initiatives that satisfy customer needs and align with the business vision. The product manager will have a focused understanding of the commercial auto insurance industry to design an innovative experience that caters to a key demographic.

• Manage the vision, strategy, and execution of major initiatives for your product area
• Build and prioritize the backlog for your team from epics to stories using ProductBoard and Jira
• Manage the execution of your backlog, collaborating with our Business teams, Design, Engineering, QA, and Marketing
• Writing requirements from brainstorm sessions and mockups
• Writing functional documentation of the platform and web applications
• Holding rituals with the team including backlog grooming and  sprint planning sessions 
• Advocate for your product area by providing regular demos of new features and creating relevant marketing/training communications for users
• Scrum master: sprint burndowns, feature scoping, prioritization, retrospectives
• Potential travel to agents, fleet offices, commercial auto stops, etc. for on-site research
• Product launch and roll-out plans
• Triage customer and end-user reported issues in collaboration with other product teams, QA and engineering
• Create report metrics highlighting resource allocation and scoping trends
• Competitive analysis research and documentation

• 3+ years of product management experience, 5+ years experience in Product Ownership/Business Analysis or proven progression through the Product Management profession 

• Strong ability to understand problems and break down the scope of solutions

• High level of confidence when prioritizing enhancements and new features for delivery
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Proven track record of backlog management and feature delivery
• Manage multiple projects using agile methodologies
• Innovative product vision
• Analytically creative

• Exposure to the property insurance industry
• Logistics, insurance, and/or FinTech industry experience is desired but not required
• Startup experience
• Proficiency with Jira

• Competitive salary & stock options
• Medical, dental & vision insurance
• 401k with company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible office policy

If you are interested in this position, please contact our Senior People Operations Specialist, Morgan Harrison. You can reach him at Morgan@hdvi.com.