Venture Product Lead (Digital Incubation & Acceleration) at Solaria Labs

Liberty Mutual Insurance•Boston, MA

7d•Remote

About The Position

To win in a world of accelerated change, we create protected space to incubate new ideas, rapidly test concepts in market, and accelerate delivery of insights and capabilities to the core business. Since 2016, Solaria Labs has been reinventing Liberty Mutual’s offerings for the future. Join a small, fast-moving, cross-functional team that operates like a startup inside a Fortune 100 company and help shape customer-facing ventures such as the Digital Retention Lab and Liberty+. Lead the framing, imagination, build, launch and iteration of high-impact experiments, both bold new concepts (incubation) and fast-tracked opportunities (acceleration). Small, high-impact team inside a large, stable company, autonomy to experiment with direct access to business stakeholders. Opportunity to own end-to-end product discovery through launch and scale. Collaborative, mission-driven work focused on improving customer outcomes. This role sits within the Solaria Labs USRM incubation team and reports to Emily Murphy Boston, Portsmouth and Plano are preferred locations, but we’re open to remote workers too.

Requirements

Self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.
Proven product leadership in consumer-facing digital products and experimentation-driven development.
Hands-on experience as a product owner working with agile squads (ceremony management, story writing, prioritization, technical tradeoffs).
Strong track record running experiments (hypothesis design, measurement, iteration).
Excellent cross-functional relationship skills, able to partner with stakeholders across product, design, engineering, marketing and business teams.
Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
Highly organized with strong project management capabilities; able to manage multiple parallel experiments and competing priorities.
Exceptional planning, analytical, decision making, communication, and project management skills
Minimum 6 years relevant work experience, typically 8 years
Ability to work EST

Nice To Haves

Nice to have: 0-1 experience at a startup or a corporate incubator.
Nice to have: Experience in personal lines insurance or familiarity with USRM (underwriting, retention, distribution channels).
Nice to have: Background in service design, UX research or data-driven product analytics.

Responsibilities

Lead the framing, imagination, build, launch and iteration of two types of experiments: Incubation efforts in which we’re testing for value on net new concepts or bold bets
Acceleration efforts in which we’re fast-tracking known areas of value with extreme ambiguity in order to give the core business a running start
Partner very closely with the USRM core business, including Strategy & Technology, Distribution & Marketing, Property & Specialty and Auto.
Lead a cross-functional team focused on experiments by setting exemplary requirements and then project managing execution. This will require the role to have working knowledge of functional concepts, process and norms:
Partner on research and design efforts to create and iterate on digital experiences. This will include ideation sessions, design sprints, requirements setting, UI tradeoff decisions, etc.
Act has a product owner for 1-2 squads. This includes ceremony mgmt., story development, technical decisions, etc.
Partner with marketing strategy and delivery to plan and execute on email and other marketing campaigns
Define success metrics and reporting strategies and then monitor experiment performance and make data-informed decisions.
Manage tradeoffs across experiments and product roadmaps.
Monitor performance and make small and large-scale decisions to improve results or sunset experiments.
Source, manage and execute on longer term roadmap.