Director, Product (Auto P&C)

EvolutionIQ • Chicago, IL

16h • $235,000 - $260,000

About The Position

EvolutionIQ's mission is to deliver state-of-the-art technology that helps insurance claims teams make claims handling more accurate, fair, and efficient, so that more people impacted by injury or illness can continue their lives with dignity and stability. We are pioneers in vertical AI and driving business value from AI applications. As part of CCC Intelligent Solutions, a publicly traded technology company serving the P&C insurance industry, we combine EIQ's AI-native product development with CCC's 40 years of proprietary data and deep carrier relationships. Together, the combined organization serves the largest and most complex insurance carriers in the world, and we are building the next generation of AI-first products for the casualty insurance market. Our team is our #1 priority, and we have been named one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces 3 years in a row and Built In’s Best Places to work in 2025 and 2026!

We are hiring a Director of Product to own a major new product area in Casualty. You'll start with a small, fast team: yourself plus a small number of engineers, operating with real independence and building at a pace that reflects how we believe product development should work.

While no two days are the same, on any given day you can expect to:
Own the strategy, roadmap, and commercial success of a new product area from inception through market validation
Build and ship AI-first products that guide and augment human decision-making in auto casualty claims
Work directly with senior executives at major insurance carriers to uncover problems, test product visions, and drive business outcomes
Get early product concepts in front of customers and use their reactions to make real decisions about what to build next
Partner with customer success, sales, and product marketing to develop go-to-market strategy for new product lines
Write code and build working prototypes alongside your engineers, using AI coding tools as a core part of how you work
Define clear value propositions, adoption hypotheses, and kill criteria for every bet, and have the discipline to walk away from work that isn't landing
Contribute to the strategic direction of Casualty products broadly

What You'll Achieve with Us
Take a new product area from a blank page to a working prototype in front of the largest insurance carriers in the world, and build the case for whether it becomes a committed product line
Shape the future of how auto casualty claims are handled by building AI-first products that change what's possible for claims organizations
Build and grow a product team around a new product area as it graduates from experiment to committed business line
Develop deep expertise in a massive, complex industry where AI is about to reshape decades of established practice
Work at the intersection of a market-leading enterprise with unmatched data and carrier relationships and an AI-native team that ships like a startup
Influence the strategic direction of a core business unit growing toward a much larger ambition, with direct access to the executives making those decisions

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience in enterprise software or high-production SaaS environment
• At least one 0-to-1 product build, ideally in a startup or high-velocity environment
• Deep experience in at least one complex, regulated vertical
• Demonstrated experience building and shipping AI-driven products
• Track record of working directly with enterprise customers and senior stakeholders to validate product direction
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, with a bias toward action and learning over extensive upfront planning
• Experience delivering results in a sales/GTM context, communicating effectively across stakeholders from end users to C-level executives
• You are a product leader who has built something from nothing at least once, ideally at a company where velocity and scrappiness were the norm.
• You think about products in terms of the economic and workflow problems they solve for a specific buyer, and you can hold that framing from early exploration through a prototype compelling enough to pitch a real value proposition and ROI case to a senior claims executive.
• You have gone deep in at least one complex, regulated vertical (fintech, healthtech, legaltech, HCM, or similar) and can speak specifically about how you built that understanding: what you got wrong early, how your product thinking evolved, and what you learned about which domain workflows are essential versus which exist out of habit. We care less about which vertical and more about evidence that you know how to learn a complex domain quickly and turn that knowledge into good product decisions.
• You are technical enough to contribute directly to working software. On a small team, there is no room for someone who shapes the strategy and hands a spec to engineering. You build alongside your engineers using AI coding tools, with enough depth to make real contributions and enough product sense to know when what you've built is good versus just functional.
• You have shipped at least one product where AI was core to the value proposition, and you can have a grounded conversation about when AI is the right approach versus when something simpler works better. You use AI tools daily in your actual work, not as a novelty but as part of how you operate.
• You have real discipline around killing work that isn't working. The intellectual honesty required to walk away from something you've built, pitched, and care about, because the customer signal says no, is rarer than it sounds. Especially at the Director level, where many PMs have spent years learning to advocate for their product rather than evaluate it.
• 0-to-1 product building. You have taken a product from concept through market validation and can point to specific decisions you made along the way, what you learned from customers, and how the product evolved from your initial vision.
• Domain learning velocity. You can go deep in a new industry quickly, distinguish essential complexity from accumulated habit, and turn domain knowledge into product insight. Auto casualty has decades of process, regulation, and institutional practice, and the person we hire will need to learn it fast and well.
• Technical contribution. You can prototype, build, and ship alongside engineers. You think of yourself as a product person, but you write code, work in AI coding environments, and make direct technical contributions to the products you own.
• Commercial instinct. You are comfortable in front of enterprise buyers, can construct a compelling value proposition and ROI case, and understand how to work alongside sales and revenue teams to build the commercial footprint of a new product.
• AI fluency. You have practical, hands-on experience building AI-first products and a realistic sense of current capabilities and limitations. You make good judgment calls about what's technically feasible and what will actually deliver value.
• Experimentation discipline. You define hypotheses, set kill criteria, test ideas with real customers, and make clear-eyed decisions about what to continue and what to stop. You do not confuse conviction with evidence.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and commercial success of a new product area from inception through market validation
• Build and ship AI-first products that guide and augment human decision-making in auto casualty claims
• Work directly with senior executives at major insurance carriers to uncover problems, test product visions, and drive business outcomes
• Get early product concepts in front of customers and use their reactions to make real decisions about what to build next
• Partner with customer success, sales, and product marketing to develop go-to-market strategy for new product lines
• Write code and build working prototypes alongside your engineers, using AI coding tools as a core part of how you work
• Define clear value propositions, adoption hypotheses, and kill criteria for every bet, and have the discipline to walk away from work that isn't landing
• Contribute to the strategic direction of Casualty products broadly
• Take a new product area from a blank page to a working prototype in front of the largest insurance carriers in the world, and build the case for whether it becomes a committed product line
• Shape the future of how auto casualty claims are handled by building AI-first products that change what's possible for claims organizations
• Build and grow a product team around a new product area as it graduates from experiment to committed business line
• Develop deep expertise in a massive, complex industry where AI is about to reshape decades of established practice
• Work at the intersection of a market-leading enterprise with unmatched data and carrier relationships and an AI-native team that ships like a startup
• Influence the strategic direction of a core business unit growing toward a much larger ambition, with direct access to the executives making those decisions

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, short & long-term disability, life insurance and AD&D, and 401k matching.
• Additional family, wellness, and pet benefits.
• Paid time off and sick leave
• 100% paid parental leave (16 weeks for primary caregivers and 12 weeks for secondary caregivers).
• Flexible schedule for new parents returning to work.
• Catered lunches, happy hours, pet-friendly spaces, and monthly technology stipend.
• $1,000/year for each employee for professional development
• Opportunities for tuition reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed