• Set vision and strategy for carrier distributed products, including packaging, modularity, configuration, and long term platform bets • Define the roadmap across distribution experiences, underwriting and requirements, servicing and case management, data and reporting, and admin tooling • Drive prioritization across reusable roadmap investments and carrier driven needs • Create a multi tenant and configurable product foundation: entitlements, feature flags, templates, configuration schemas, and safe customization patterns • Establish release, migration, and backward compatibility practices so carriers can adopt improvements without disruption • Define the operational model: support readiness, incident management interfaces, runbooks, and carrier facing SLAs • Lead discovery across carrier distribution leaders, operations, compliance, and technology teams to understand channel realities: independent agents, call centers, D2C, worksite, and embedded flows • Translate needs into product capabilities such as quoting and eligibility flows, pre fill, underwriting journeys, application UX, drop off recovery, agent tooling, and conversion optimization • Build feedback loops to continuously improve outcomes after launch • Create a repeatable carrier onboarding playbook: implementation phases, launch criteria, cutover plans, training, and documentation • Define carrier facing environments and tooling: sandboxes, test data, certification, monitoring access, and audit reporting • Partner with Implementation and Customer Success to reduce time to value and cost to serve • Manage and develop product managers and product leaders as the team scales • Set product operating rhythms: roadmap reviews, launch readiness, discovery standards, and decision forums • Communicate clearly to executives: tradeoffs, investment needs, timelines, and business impact