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Job Description:
What is the role?
As a Product Manager for Cotality Hazard and Catastrophe Products , you will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a subset of our suite of catastrophe and risk products. You will lead the development of high-resolution hazard solutions, probabilistic catastrophe models, and property-level risk scores that help insurers, reinsurers, and financial institutions quantify the impact of wildfire in a changing climate.
Product Strategy & Roadmap: Define the "View of Risk" for models and risk scoring products, Determining where to invest based on market and customer inputs and charting a path via roadmap collaboratively
Scientific Collaboration: Partner with scientists and meteorologists to translate complex stochastic event sets into actionable insurance metrics like Average Annual Loss (AAL) and Probable Maximum Loss (PML).
Regulatory & Compliance: Lead the submission process for state regulatory bodies (e.g., California Department of Insurance). Ensure the model is "filable" by carriers and meets all transparency and non-discriminatory requirements.
Market Discovery: Actively engage with Chief Underwriting Officers and Catastrophe Managers to understand how they use risk scores for "point-of-quote" decisions vs. portfolio-level risk management.
Go-to-Market (GTM): Work with Sales and Marketing to articulate the "edge" of your model (e.g., "Our model better captures the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) transition zones than the competition"). Present to the industry and stakeholders providing thought leadership and insight into product lines and roadmaps.
Required Qualifications
Experience: 5+ years in Product Management, ideally within InsurTech, Fintech, or Geospatial Data.
Knowledge of the application of risk modeling and product lines in insurance.
Preferable experience in the development and delivery of wildfire
Domain Expertise: Familiarity with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Catastrophe Modeling software (e.g., Touchstone, Risk Modeler).
Analytical Rigor: Ability to speak "Actuary." You should understand probability distributions, exceedance probability (EP) curves, and tail risk.
Technical Literacy: Comfort with APIs and cloud-native data delivery. You don’t need to code the model, but you must understand how a client’s underwriting system calls your risk score via REST API.
Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s in a quantitative field (Environmental Science, Data Science, Economics, or Engineering).
Job Qualifications:
Education, Experience, Knowledge and Skills
Domain-Specific: Prefer 3–7 years in catastrophe modeling, insurance underwriting, or risk consultancy with a heavy emphasis on launching data/API solutions that fit into complex business needs preferably in the insurance industry. Demonstrated thought leadership, presentation and storytelling skills that enable customer engagement and understanding of our product lines. Experience in Wildfire Product development preferred.
Commercial Acumen: Deep understanding of the Insurance Value Chain (Distinction between MGA, Carrier, and Reinsurer).
Avid interest in and experience with the use of AI and related tools to drive the product lifecycle forward at pace.
Financial Modeling: Mastery of insurance-specific metrics:
AAL (Average Annual Loss)
PML (Probable Maximum Loss)
TVaR (Tail Value at Risk)
Regulatory Exposure: Understanding of the regulatory environment and nature of the insurance environment and the ability to navigate it successfully.
Annual Pay Range: $90,000 - $120,000 CAD
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Thrive with Cotality
At Cotality, we offer more than just a job, we provide a benefits experience designed to support your whole self. From a flexible working model to competitive time off and standout health coverage with meaningful perks and growth opportunities, our package is built to help you thrive at work and in life.
Highlights include:
Time off: Generous vacation accrual and 11 paid holidays, plus well-being and volunteer time off.
Family Support: Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and a baby stipend.
Health: Extended Healthcare and Dental plan with mental health and wellness support offerings.
Retirement: Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with company match.
Financial Perks: $500 annual well-being stipend
Extras: Recognition Rewards, Referral bonuses, exclusive discounts and more!
Cotality's Diversity Commitment:
Cotality is fully committed to employing a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive work environment that embraces everyone’s unique contributions, experiences and values. We offer an empowered work environment that encourages creativity, initiative and professional growth and provides a competitive salary and benefits package. We are better together when we support and recognize our differences.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:
Cotality is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining the best-qualified people available, without regard to race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, record of offences, age, marital status, family status or disability. Cotality maintains a Drug-Free Workplace.
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