Director of Product Management

Leopard•Philadelphia, PA

23d•$210,000 - $275,000

About The Position

Leopard is a B2B insurtech startup on a mission to reinvent how life insurance and annuities are built, distributed, and experienced. We are seeking a Director of Product Management to drive our product development and ensure Leopard is set up to power the life insurance and annuities lifecycles. This is a leadership role with the potential to shape the long-term direction of the company. Expect startup velocity backed by a larger company’s reach, high autonomy within a small, talented team, and the opportunity to deliver visible, revenue‑impacting improvements. If you’re a detail-oriented self-starter who also enjoys big-picture strategy and wants unlimited room for growth this role is for you.

Requirements

10+ years in product management (or equivalent), including leadership of complex, technical products; 3+ years leading and scaling product teams
Experience building in fintech and/or adjacent regulated domains (payments, lending, cards, fraud/risk, identity, compliance tooling, money movement, B2B financial workflows, etc.)
Demonstrated ability to set strategy and drive execution across multiple teams and stakeholders—shipping durable products, not just roadmaps
Strong technical fluency: you can work effectively with engineering on APIs, architecture tradeoffs, data models, integrations, reliability, and platform scalability
Track record of shipping meaningful features in fast-moving environments
Excellent communicator; can align executives, engineers, and non-technical stakeholders
Willing to use the latest AI tools to prototype and accelerate development
Deep customer understanding paired with sharp analytical rigor; comfortable with metrics, experimentation, and business cases

Responsibilities

Define and communicate a multi-year product strategy
Lead the evolution of our product platforms to enable new customer experiences, internal tooling, and partner capabilities
Influence and align senior stakeholders across the business; make crisp tradeoffs between growth, risk, speed, and quality; drive clarity through strong narratives and data
Translate customer and operations needs into clear product requirements, user stories, and technical specs (APIs, data models, workflows)
Drive end-to-end delivery with Engineering: scoping, sequencing, tradeoffs, QA/acceptance, and launch
Own product metrics; instrument usage, define success criteria, and iterate based on data
Over time, hire, coach, and scale a team of Product Managers and strengthen product operating cadence”