Established in 2021, Independence Pet Holdings is a corporate holding company that manages a diverse and broad portfolio of modern pet health brands and services, including insurance, pet education, lost recovery services, and more throughout North America. We believe pet insurance is more than a financial product and build solutions to simplify the pet parenting journey and help improve the well‑being of pets. As a leading authority in the pet category, we operate with a full stack of resources, capital, and services to support pet parents. Our multi‑brand and omni‑channel approach includes our own insurance carrier, insurance brands and partner brands.
Responsibilities
- Works with other Technology areas to make tactical decisions about product functionality.
- Manages projects that consist of a single development team.
- Proposes and manages demand for application work.
- Manages projects through all phases and milestones.
- Manages product feature/capability set for business solutions.
- Performs market and competitor analysis.
- Authors product requirement documents (PDDs) and technical specs to support engineering handoff and stakeholder alignment.
- Scopes and manages partner‑facing API and system‑to‑system integrations, coordinating with external technical teams through delivery.
- Translates technical tradeoffs into business impact for non‑technical stakeholders.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Experience
3‑4 years' relevant experience; experience with partner/vendor integrations or vertical SaaS strongly preferred.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience (One‑year relevant experience is equivalent to one‑year college)
- Associate's Degree in a Technical Field
- Certification in relevant focus area
Preferred
Experience in insurance, animal health, or another regulated/compliance‑heavy vertical.
Level Specific Responsibilities
- Creates and manages product roadmaps.
- Works with Marketing to determine advertising strategy for products.
- Analyzes metrics and measures product performance; comfortable working with data engineering to validate reporting accuracy.
- Manages larger projects that may consist of more than one development team.
- Works with platform development vendors and internal cross‑functional partners (Design, Legal, Data, Engineering) to provide technical management. Owns the delivery of platform and services.
- Manages product strategy and feature/capability set for business solutions.
Accountability/Complexity
- Works independently on moderately complex projects/assignments and seeks guidance on projects/assignments of higher complexity.
- May provide guidance and assistance to entry level professionals and/or support employees.
Benefits
- Comprehensive full medical, dental and vision insurance.
- Basic life insurance at no cost to the employee.
- Company paid short‑term and long‑term disability.
- 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave.
- Health savings account (HSA).
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA).
- Retirement savings plan.
- Personal paid time off.
- Paid holidays and company‑wide wellness day off.
- Paid time off to volunteer at nonprofit organizations.
- Pet friendly office environment.
- Commuter benefits.
- Group pet insurance.
- On‑the‑job training and skills development.
- Employee assistance program (EAP).