Markel
Director - Product Solutions & Services
Richmond, VA · Director · Full-time
No sponsorshipDetected 27 days ago
Product ManagementProduct StrategyAgileOKRsPerformance ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationUnderwriting
About the role
- If you're looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you've found it.
- This role bridges strategy and execution-owning portfolio-level outcomes while ensuring disciplined delivery across Product Owners and Business Analysts.
- Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year product and capability roadmap, ensuring alignment with underwriting priorities, operational needs, and enterprise strategy
- Lead portfolio prioritization, investment planning, and tradeoff decisions, balancing value, risk, and capacity
- Build and maintain strong relationships across underwriting, operations, marketing, IT, finance, and PMO
- Drive strategic stakeholder engagement, proactively identifying opportunities to improve product performance and operational efficiency
- Partner with Architecture and Technology leaders to define and advance the target-state architecture and modernization roadmap
- Drive standardization, reuse, and integration across systems and product lines
- Own and evolve the product delivery operating model, including agile practices, governance, and standards across teams
- Lead delivery performance management, including prioritization, sequencing, capacity alignment, and dependency management
- Partner with PMO and Change Management to ensure effective intake, prioritization, and value realization
- Lead, manage, and develop a high-performing team of Product Owners and Business Analysts
Requirements
- 10-12+ years of experience in insurance product, technology, or operations leadership
- Experience leading multi-team delivery and transformation initiatives
- US Work Authorization required.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree required
- advanced degree preferred
- Agile, Lean, or product management certifications preferred
Benefits
- We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees' needs at all stages of life.
- All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.
- We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.
Company info
- Markel Group (NYSE - MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.
- We're all about people | We win together | We strive for better
- We enjoy the everyday | We think further
- What's in it for you:
- Are you ready to play your part?
- Choose 'Apply Now' to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.
- Caution: Employment scams
- Markel is aware of employment-related scams where scammers will impersonate recruiters by sending fake job offers to those actively seeking employment in order to steal personal information.
- Frequently, the scammer will reach out to individuals who have posted their resume online.
- These "job offers" include convincing offer letters and frequently ask for confidential personal information.
- Therefore, for your safety, please note that:
- All legitimate job postings with Markel will be posted on Markel Careers. No other URL should be trusted for job postings.
- All legitimate communications with Markel recruiters will come from Markel.com email addresses.
- We would also ask that you please report any job employment scams related to Markel to rarecruiting@markel.com.
- Markel is an equal opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic.
- This includes race; color; sex; religion; creed; national origin or place of birth; ancestry; age; disability; affectional or sexual orientation; gender expression or identity; genetic information, sickle cell trait, or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait; refusal to submit to genetic tests or make genetic test results available; medical condition; citizenship status; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, familial status, or family responsibilities; military or veteran status, including unfavorable discharge from military service; personal appearance, height, or weight; matriculation or political affiliation; expunged juvenile records; arrest and court records where prohibited by applicable law; status as a victim of domestic or sexual violence; public assistance status; order of protection status; status as a smoker or nonsmoker; membership or activity in local commissions; the use or nonuse of lawful products off employer premises during non-work hours; declining to attend meetings or participate in communications about religious or political matters; or any other classification protected by applicable law.
- Should you require any accommodation through the application process, please send an e-mail to the rarecruiting@markel.com.
- No agencies please.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
- Should you require any accommodation through the
Visa & Work Authorization
- Markel does not provide visa sponsorship for this position, now or in the future.
This listing is sourced directly from Markel's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.