Principal Product Manager, Protection Programs

Location: Remote within the United States; applicants must live in an approved U.S. location by their first day. Hiring is available anywhere in the U.S. except D.C. and Hawaii. Compensation-based restrictions may apply in California, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington. Colorado employees may work remotely statewide, from the downtown Denver office, or in a hybrid arrangement.

Salary: $170K–$205K, depending on relevant experience, plus eligibility for a variable annual bonus based on company and individual performance.

Company

hirify.global operates a vacation-rental platform focused on making vacation rental easier for homeowners and guests.

What you will do

• Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Protection Programs, connecting customer value, risk reduction, and sustainable business performance.
• Develop a portfolio strategy for damage protection, travel insurance, chargeback insurance, and related offerings.
• Own program commercial models, evaluating pricing, conversion, coverage, partner economics, claims costs, operational expenses, and contribution.
• Identify growth opportunities across customer segments, distribution, packaging, pricing, and partner capabilities; turn them into measurable product bets and business cases.
• Improve the end-to-end experience across selection, purchase, servicing, cancellation, and claims while clarifying coverage and eligibility.
• Lead discovery, definition, delivery, launch, and iteration with Commercial, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Operations, Support, Design, Engineering, and external partners.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of product management experience, including 0-to-1 product buildouts and strategy and delivery ownership for complex products or product areas.
• Strong commercial judgment and experience shaping a product business model, including revenue, margin or contribution, pricing, adoption, partner economics, and cost-to-serve.
• Experience turning ambiguous opportunities into focused strategies, business cases, roadmaps, and measurable results.
• Experience building products involving financial risk, insurance, payments, lending, warranties, fraud, disputes, or other regulated or partner-dependent services.
• Ability to connect product decisions with customer segmentation, positioning, packaging, distribution, and sales or channel enablement.
• Strong customer discovery skills and the ability to balance customer needs with business viability, risk controls, partner requirements, and operational realities.
• Experience collaborating with external partners and Commercial, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Operations, Support, Design, and Engineering teams.
• Comfort using product and financial data to define success measures, assess performance, understand unit economics, and make evidence-based investment decisions.
• Strong communication, stakeholder alignment, technical tradeoff, systems constraint, integration, and sequencing skills.
• An AI builder mindset with a pragmatic approach to AI tools, LLMs, and agents, including rapid prototyping, hypothesis validation, and transition of proven concepts into scalable production features.

Nice to have

• Direct insurance experience.
• Experience in insurance, fintech, travel, e-commerce, property technology, vacation rentals, or other consumer or B2B2C businesses.

Culture & Benefits

• Customer-obsessed culture centered on curiosity, communication, accountability, collaboration, care, and responsibility.
• Equity, a 401(k) with a 4% immediate vesting match, and a variable annual bonus opportunity.
• Paid parental leave, infertility coverage, medical, dental, vision, mental health, and pet insurance benefits.
• Generous PTO, RTO for full-time exempt employees, sick leave, holidays, and a personal holiday.
• Annual travel credit after one year, discounts on hirify.global properties, onboarding, learning and development resources, and employee resource groups.

Hiring process

• Accommodation during the hiring process is available upon request.
• hirify.global participates in e-Verify for all positions.