Withpace
Product Partnerships
New York City. Posted a month ago
The role
A Product Partnerships leader will build a technology ecosystem to make Pace more powerful and valuable to insurers. You will own relationships with AI labs, insurance platforms, and data providers to create product capabilities and joint go-to-market motions.
What you will do
- Own Pace's product and technology partnerships
- Define the product-partnership strategy
- Create joint customer value propositions
- Shape integrations and product roadmaps
- Develop new commercial models
- Turn partnerships into revenue
- Lead complex cross-functional programs
- Build technical credibility with frontier partners
- Measure and improve partnership health
- Scale the operating model
Required qualifications
- 5+ years in product partnerships, platform partnerships, business development, product strategy, or a similarly cross-functional role in AI, enterprise SaaS, fintech, or insurtech
- Experience taking technical partnerships from idea to launch, including product scoping, commercial structuring, integration delivery, and go-to-market activation
- Technical fluency to work with product and engineering leaders on APIs, data flows, models, security, deployment architecture, and integration tradeoffs
- Ability to turn an ambiguous strategic relationship into a focused roadmap, business case, and executable joint plan
- Understanding of platform and ecosystem business models, including co-sell, resell, marketplaces, embedded products, licensing, and white-label structures
- Ability to think from the customer's operating problem backward
- Effective communication with executives and ability to work through detailed product, commercial, and delivery issues
- Ability to build trust and create alignment across Product, Engineering, Applied AI, Sales, Legal, Security, and partner teams without formal authority
- High-ownership mindset
Nice to have
- Experience with frontier AI labs, insurance core platforms, insurance data providers, cloud marketplaces, or enterprise technology ecosystems
- Relationships with Anthropic, OpenAI, Guidewire, Verisk, or Vertafore
- Prior startup experience
About the company
Pace is the AI operations partner for the world's leading insurers. They combine AI agents with expert review to automate complex insurance work.