Root was founded on the belief that car insurance is broken, and we set out to change it. We’re harnessing the power of technology to revolutionize this archaic, complicated industry. Using machine learning and mobile telematic platforms, we’ve built one of the most innovative insurtech companies in the world.
The Opportunity
Root is looking for a Senior Product Manager to define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the platforms that power our pricing advantage. This is a highly cross-functional PM role focused on enabling faster, higher-quality pricing decisions and model deployment across the company.
You’ll own critical pricing capabilities and lead the evolution of the infrastructure, tooling, and decisioning systems at the center of Root’s rating engine.
Pricing is one of Root’s core strategic advantages, and this role will shape the systems that determine how quickly we turn data and models into market-leading pricing decisions.
Salary Range: $125,500 - $156,100 (Eligible for competitive bonus and equity offering)
Root is a “work where it works best” company. Meaning we will support you working in whatever location that works best for you across the US. We will continue to have our headquarters in Columbus, Ohio.
How You Will Make an Impact
- Own the pricing roadmap and evolve the vision for 2027 and beyond.
- Set direction and prioritize work across engineering, from discovery through launch and iteration.
- Speed up the path from new data and model features to production deployment.
- Help Data Science and Analytics evaluate data sources efficiently through documented research processes and reliable data quality checks.
- Improve the reliability, latency, observability, cost, and usability of data services used by internal systems such as the pricing engine and UMS.
- Build self-service tools for experimentation and feature creation; reduce operational and regulatory bottlenecks in pricing and filing workflows.
- Support nationwide expansion by adapting pricing capabilities to new states and lead expansion into one or two new markets
- Partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Actuarial, Risk Mitigation, Legal, Compliance, and State Management.
- Lead the definition and governance of robust internal and external API contracts and event-driven data architectures
What You Will Need to Succeed
- 4+ years of product management experience, ideally in fintech, insurtech, or another data-intensive regulated environment.
- Experience embedded with an engineering team, working closely with engineers through product discovery, delivery, and iteration.
- Strong systems thinking and comfort with technical concepts such as APIs, data pipelines, predictive models, and workflow orchestration.
- Experience working with data science teams and using data to guide product decisions.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to make complex technical concepts clear.
- A customer-focused approach
- Strong prioritization and execution skills, with the ability to manage ambiguity and influence across teams.
- Experience in agile development and the ability to balance business, user, and compliance needs.
- Experience working in a regulated industry or in fintech
- Willingness to travel up to 10% for quarterly in-person team events.
Preferred
- Experience working in the auto insurance industry
- Graduate degree in business or a quantitative discipline, such as MBA, economics, statistics, mathematics, or data science.
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Skills Required
- 4+ years of product management experience, ideally in fintech, insurtech, or another data-intensive regulated environment
- Experience embedded with an engineering team through product discovery, delivery, and iteration
- Strong systems thinking and comfort with APIs, data pipelines, predictive models, and workflow orchestration
- Experience working with data science teams and using data to guide product decisions
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly
- Customer-focused approach
- Strong prioritization and execution skills, including managing ambiguity and influencing across teams
- Experience in agile development
- Ability to balance business, user, and compliance needs
- Experience working in a regulated industry or in fintech
- Willingness to travel up to 10% for quarterly in-person team events
- Experience working in the auto insurance industry
- Graduate degree in business or a quantitative discipline such as an MBA, economics, statistics, mathematics, or data science
Root Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Root and has not been reviewed or approved by Root.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible paid time off—often described as permissive or unlimited—and paid holidays are prominent parts of the package. Time off is frequently positioned as a strong element of the offering.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan is offered, with a company contribution or match noted after eligibility is met. Retirement offerings are presented as a dependable component of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is explicitly included and promoted alongside flexible PTO. Family-oriented leave stands out as a meaningful benefit within the overall program.
Root Insights
What We Do
At Root, we’re doing things differently. We’re reimagining the services people need so that they serve them better. And we’re doing it by using data, technology, and rapid innovation to create products and experiences that are fair, easy, personal, and affordable. We’ve partnered with Carvana in a partnership that brings an industry-leading, seamless insurance process to the online car buying experience. The launch of Carvana Insurance Built with Root delivers an elevated customer experience made possible through a deep integration that pre-fills key customer information so that a customer can skip data entry and jump directly to evaluating quotes and customizing coverage. This fully embedded product experience—from quote to payment—happens entirely within the Carvana checkout process. Teams from both Carvana and Root have worked for months to build this bold technology platform. An early iteration involved 24 screens in the customer experience flow—that experience is now just three straightforward steps.
Why Work With Us
Our success is because of the hard work, ingenuity, and exceptional performance of our team. People come to Root because they know they can make an impact in their role, the company, and the industry. We’re passionate and curious self-starters, building a top-notch customer experience. Sound like something you’d like to be a part of?
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