Senior Product Manager - Onyx Platform

Group 1001

21h•$150,000 - $170,000•Remote

About The Position

Group 1001 is a consumer-centric, technology-driven family of insurance companies focused on delivering outstanding value and operational performance. The Onyx platform is a robust, multi-module annuity administrative platform launched in 2020, built on a modern tech stack. It offers seamless integration, advanced analytics, and user-friendly interfaces to streamline processes and enhance customer experience. This role is crucial for owning core functionality across the Onyx platform, translating business needs into shippable product work, and partnering with engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to ensure the platform remains reliable, scalable, and easy to build on. Success will be measured by improvements in processing efficiency, reduction in manual work, faster cycle times, and enhanced platform capabilities.

Requirements

4+ years of product management experience, with time on technical or platform products.
Track record of shipping product work that delivered measurable business results.
Experience owning a product domain and managing a backlog.
Solid technical foundation — comfortable reasoning about data, workflows, and integrations.
Comfortable in technical discussions about data models, workflows, and system behavior.
Working understanding of APIs and integrations — enough to reason about how modules connect.
Able to partner with engineers on trade-offs without needing every detail spelled out.
Establish baselines before claiming improvement.
Comfortable working with analytics and data teams; SQL familiarity is a plus.
Made and documented product decisions based on evidence.
Write specs that engineers can build from and business stakeholders can understand.
Influence across engineering, operations, and business teams without formal authority.
Communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

Experience in fintech, insurtech, or other regulated industries.
Familiarity with annuity, life insurance, or financial services operations.
Exposure to process automation or AI/ML-assisted features.
Experience working across multiple modules of a large platform.

Responsibilities

Own the product roadmap for one or more core Onyx modules (e.g., policy administration, new business, servicing, transactions, product configuration).
Translate operational and business requirements into clear PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Prioritize a backlog that balances new capability, reliability, and technical health.
Partner with engineering on scoping, sequencing, and trade-off decisions.
Understand how core modules connect and where changes in one area ripple into others.
Coordinate with adjacent product owners and platform teams to keep interfaces and shared capabilities consistent.
Help maintain reusable capabilities that serve more than one feature or team.
Define what success looks like for each feature before development begins.
Establish baselines and track the leading and lagging indicators that matter for your domain.
Review outcomes regularly and document the impact of shipped work.
Drive measurable improvements in processing efficiency, cycle time, and operational cost.
Work directly with operations teams to understand day-to-day pain points and workflow constraints.
Represent the voice of internal users and downstream teams in prioritization.
Support process automation opportunities that reduce manual handling and error rates.