AIR Worldwide (AIR), a Verisk business, provides risk modeling solutions that make individuals, businesses, and society more resilient to extreme events. In 1987, AIR Worldwide founded the catastrophe modeling industry and today models the risk from natural catastrophes, terrorism, pandemics, casualty catastrophes, and cyber attacks, globally. Insurance, reinsurance, financial, corporate, and government clients rely on AIR’s advanced science, software, and consulting services for catastrophe risk management, insurance-linked securities, site-specific engineering analyses, and agricultural risk management. AIR Worldwide, is headquartered in Boston with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. To learn more about AIR, please visit us at: www.air-worldwide.com. We are proud to be a part of the Verisk family of companies! 

At the heart of what we do is help clients manage risk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) provides data and insights to our customers in insurance, energy and the financial services markets so they can make faster and more informed decisions.   

 Our global team uses AI, machine learning, automation, and other emerging technologies to collect and analyze billions of records. We provide advanced decision-support to prevent credit, lending, and cyber risks. In addition, we monitor and advise companies on complex global matters such as climate change, catastrophes, and geopolitical issues.   

But why we do our work is what sets us apart. It stems from a commitment to making the world better, safer and stronger.   

It’s the reason Verisk is part of the UN Global Compact sustainability initiative. It’s why we made a commitment to balancing 100 percent of our carbon emissions. It’s the aim of our “returnship” program for experienced professionals rejoining the workforce after time away. And, it’s what drives our annual Innovation Day, where we identify our next first-to-market innovations to solve our customers’ problems.   

At its core, Verisk uses data to minimize risk and maximize value. But far bigger, is why we do what we do.  

At Verisk you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create positive and lasting impact on business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. We have received the Great Place to Work® Certification for the fifth consecutive year. We’ve been recognized by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and a Best Employer for Women, testaments to our culture of engagement and the value we place on an inclusive and diverse workforce.  Verisk’s Statement on Racial Equity and Diversity supports our commitment to these values and affecting positive and lasting change in the communities where we live and work. 

About the Role

Your position as a Catastrophe Modeling Product Consultant in the product management team will be responsible for contributing to the success of AIR’s risk modeling platform and products by participating in product planning, requirement development and implementation activities. You will serve as product owner for multiple scrum teams involved in product development.  You will interact with model developers, client support teams and AIR clients and serve as a subject matter expert to help guide product development.

About the Day to Day Responsibilities of the Role

• Be the evangelist for development of product features for the reinsurance and ILS market workflows by identifying key market needs.
• Perform market research and review the competitive landscape to identify product gaps as well as opportunities to improve product position in the market.
• Define the target audience of who we are building for by mapping product feature needs with target markets and analyze market segments needs based on business case.
• Identify target clients for engagement and ideate based on customer use case and AIR vision.
• Build relationships and partnerships with clients and prospects.
• Work directly with internal/external stakeholders including other Product managers and external customers to understand client workflows, product needs and become the “voice of the customer”.
• Create product and model requirements documents (Epics).
• Independent product owner one or more scrum teams including: maintaining the team backlog and ticket prioritization and maintenance, working with Product Manager on use case development; driving new features to definitions of ready (DOR) and ensuring team deliverables meet the minimum definition of done (DOD). Remove obstacles to enable the scrum team to maintain a high team velocity.
• Demonstrations to internal and external stakeholders, presentations and discussions with clients about products.
• Participate in user conferences, seminars, webinars and client meetings
• Advocate for Product management best practices and process improvements.

•            3-5 years of insurance industry experience, including related exposure data, financial terms and catastrophe modeling workflows with reinsurance and/or ILS workflows.

•            Strong business analysis acumen for product development

•            Experience working with catastrophe modeling software applications a must.

•            Highly passionate, go-getter, strong analytical skills, quantitative and problem-solving ability;

•            Self-motivated and quick learner, with good organization and time management skills; can work independently

•            Excellent presentation and written communication skills

•            BS degree in technical (e.g., engineering, science, math, computer science, statistics or closely related program of study) or business fields.  Advanced degree preferred.

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