State Manager, Insurance Product Management at GEICO in Bethesda, MD

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Ready to innovate and direct GEICO’s profitable growth? If so, Read on!

Drive GEICO’s profitable growth and innovate its products by joining our Insurance Product Management team. We are looking for an experienced Product Manager with the ability to strategically analyze potential opportunities and risks, and lead efforts to solve complicated business problems and effect positive change. You will be on the front line of driving GEICO’s long-term profitable growth, with responsibility for delivering results in one or more states.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

The Insurance Product Management team has an opening for an experienced Product Manager who will build product strategy and drive pricing and non-pricing decisions leading to profitable growth. This role will be at the Product Manager to Sr Product Manager level, based on experience, and will have Senior Management visibility.

• Manage your assigned state(s) to meet profitability targets and grow as fast as possible
• Create a strategic vision and roadmap for your areas of ownership and apply skills in leadership and persuasion to achieve it.
• Understand the assigned markets and develop specific strategies related to price, product and underwriting
• Utilize analytical problem solving and leadership skills to execute and deliver product initiatives
• Collaborate with subject matter experts and other company leaders to implement changes that enhance the customer experience
• Research the competition to develop opportunity and threat assessments
• Review and make recommendations on process and governance from a country-wide state management perspective
• Direct end-to-end lifecycle of department and corporate initiatives
• Advocate on behalf of the company with regulators and consultants and in legal and compliance matters
• Manage rate filings through approval, reviewing and approving text for rate reviews, filings and internal communications
• Implement product changes effectively and in compliance with laws and regulations

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated deep understanding of pricing and product management strategy and tactics with a proven track record of success
• Minimum of 7 years in P&C insurance industry with an understanding of the current environment
• Working knowledge of insurance regulation and related business constraints
• Prior experience managing and developing state teams
• Capable of managing states with little/minimal oversight
• Bachelor’s degree with relevant academic background required
• Must be a self-motivated, goal-oriented individual with curiosity
• Demonstrated ability to exchange ideas and convey complex information clearly, both verbally and in writing
• Strong analytical abilities with solid understanding of pricing techniques and insurance operations including underwriting
• Must have good planning, organizational, decision-making and communication skills
• High level knowledge of data sources, tools, and modeling techniques
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and changing environment and get work done through others

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in business or related field
• Other industry designations: FCAS, ACAS, or CPCU

This Position is a hybrid or remote position.

Annual Salary $136,325.00 - $212,175.00 The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.