Director, Annuity and Life Insurance Product Development and Management
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Job Description
Job Title: Director, Annuity and Life Insurance Product Development and Management
The Role
Based in Boston, the Director of Annuity and Life Insurance Product Development and Management is a key member of the Fidelity Investment Life Insurance (FILI) team's growing product team that supports the development and management of annuity and life insurance products to provide value to Fidelity customers. This role will help drive FILI’s product development, including designing, developing, launching and managing annuity and life insurance products in collaboration with large and diverse cross-functional teams and external partners / vendors. The ideal candidate must have strong domain knowledge in individual fixed and variable annuity, and life insurance products.
Job Description
Job Title: Director, Annuity and Life Insurance Product Development and Management
The Role
Based in Boston, the Director of Annuity and Life Insurance Product Development and Management is a key member of the Fidelity Investment Life Insurance (FILI) team's growing product team that supports the development and management of annuity and life insurance products to provide value to Fidelity customers. This role will help drive FILI’s product development, including designing, developing, launching and managing annuity and life insurance products in collaboration with large and diverse cross-functional teams and external partners / vendors. The ideal candidate must have strong domain knowledge in individual fixed and variable annuity, and life insurance products.
Specific Responsibilities Include
Develop and Launch New Products:
- Participate in new product launches on the FILI product roadmap by partnering with cross-functional teams including but not limited to distribution, actuarial, legal, compliance, operations, technology, risk, finance
- Develop detailed product specifications and applications in collaboration with product actuaries, compliance, technology and cross-functional teams
- Partner with distribution to ensure alignment of product value proposition, methodology development, and planning / tools integration
- Collaborate with distribution to create training and marketing materials for new products
- Conduct product trainings to customer facing advisors, if needed
- Participate in the development of innovative product offerings for FILI’s product roadmap by contributing annuity product expertise, customer prospectives, and industry market insights
- Responsible for on-going annuity pricing rate submission in various systems, in collaboration with FILI actuarial team and reinsurance partners
- Maintain and publish rate and sales tracking reports
- Responsible for quarterly reporting on variable products
- Partner with Operations, Actuarial, Compliance etc. on maintenance of annuity forms
- Manage relationship with external vendors on tool access & updates, contract approval and processing
- Review contracts, riders, and prospectus language for consistency with product specifications
- Review and maintain product training materials
- Partner with cross functional groups on new fund additions to variable annuities, if any
- Support our continued product enhancements to our Digital offerings
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert on Fidelity insurance-related initiatives
- Contribute to market intelligence by assessing industry landscape, trends, and customer needs
- Collaborate with diverse teams across Fidelity to support a variety of insurance related projects
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 8+ years of proven Annuity and Insurance experience, including developing, launching and managing annuity products
- Deep product expertise in the annuities space
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex and technical concepts to stakeholders across different levels
- Strong project management skills with experience influencing cross functional groups without authority
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities
- Strong critical thinking and decision-making leveraging data driven insights
- Knowledge of financial services products, and the role of annuities in retirement planning
- Self-starter - able to assess what work needs to be completed and how to get it done
- Ability to build and maintain positive relationships as you work collaboratively across teams
- Expert in Microsoft Excel and strong user of other Microsoft products
- Experience with Life insurance and group annuity is a plus
- This role does not currently require FINRA registrations/licenses, however if a candidate already has FINRA registrations/licenses some may be maintained as 'permitted' in accordance with the Fidelity Licensing and Registration Policy
Outstanding opportunity to join a newly formed team at FILI. The growing FILI Product Team is a dynamic group that supports the development and management of new annuity and life insurance products to provide value to Fidelity customers. FILI provides financial products that help Fidelity’s investors achieve lifetime financial goals. Having annuity and life insurance solutions as options is a strategic advantage for Fidelity’s Brokerage and Wealth Management business units. Our products help ensure our clients do not outlive their assets in retirement, safeguard portfolios from market volatility and protect against premature death.
Certifications
Category:
Product Management
Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.
Seniority level
Seniority level
Director
Employment type
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Job function
Sales and Business Development
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