Specialist, Product Development - Pet - REMOTE

Are you passionate about being part of a team at a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales that delivers extraordinary care to help individuals and businesses prepare for and protect their future? If so, then Nationwide Financial could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers and partners are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

This role does not qualify for employer sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT extension program.

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Job Description Summary

Our work is essential to helping Nationwide build future capability to serve customer needs. Keeping existing products relevant and marketable and building new products takes research, critical thinking, practicality and collaboration. If you enjoy gathering input and information, working independently and on a team and creating innovative solutions for customers, we want to know more about you!

As a Product Development Specialist, you’ll support the development, maintenance, analysis, filing support, and implementation of insurance products, forms, endorsements, and related product documentation. You’ll conduct research, draft, coordinate, analyze, and execute product changes across the Pet portfolio. You’ll also work across product, regulatory, compliance, legal, pricing, underwriting, operations, and technology partners to help ensure product changes are market-responsive, operationally sound, and compliant with applicable requirements.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Maintains and updates policy contracts, endorsements, forms, and related product documentation to support market, business, and regulatory needs.

• Reviews product language for consistency across forms, endorsements, and products; identifies gaps, conflicts, or implementation risks and recommend corrections.

• Conducts competitor, filing, and market research to identify trends, best practices, and opportunities for product enhancements.

• Drafts and revises product language, state variations, filing support materials, business requirements, and implementation summaries for new and existing products.

• Supports responses to filing objections, regulatory questions, and other product-related inquiries by gathering facts, researching precedent, and coordinating with business partners.

• Partners with Product, Regulatory Solutions, Compliance, Legal, Pricing, Underwriting, Operations, and technology teams to support compliant and timely implementation of product changes.

• Tracks deliverables, approvals, version control, and implementation dependencies across assigned initiatives; escalate issues and risks as appropriate.

• Prepares analyses, summaries, and presentations that translate complex product or regulatory topics into clear recommendations for partners and leaders.

• Performs ongoing review of product performance, regulatory feedback, and operational learnings to improve product quality and consistency over time.

• Develops repeatable tools, templates, and documentation that improve product development discipline and execution.

• Works independently on defined assignments and moderate-complexity analyses.

• Supports larger product initiatives and may manage selected workstreams or components of a filing or implementation.

• Exercises judgment within established frameworks and escalates highly complex, ambiguous, or enterprise-level decisions to more senior product leaders.

• Builds relationships across functions and contributes to team effectiveness through reliable execution and thoughtful analysis.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships:  Reports to Director.

Typical Skills and Experiences: 

Education: Undergraduate degree in business, insurance, finance, economics, legal studies, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

License/Certification/Designation: INS, AU or similar designations preferred.

Experience: Typically, five or more years of experience in insurance product development, product analysis, forms, filings, regulatory, compliance, underwriting, or related analytical work.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Proven knowledge of property & casualty lines of insurance, home office and field practices and procedures. State filings and rating bureaus, policy provisions, rating/classification manuals and state insurance department filing requirements. Demonstrated ability to analyze the effect of changes on Personal/Commercial lines' operations. Ability to prepare field implementation instructions, insurance department filings. Effective verbal/written communication skills. Able to use personal computer and related software and work with complex spreadsheets.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions: 

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Non-standard and/or extended hours as required.

ADA:  The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job.  Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties. 

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

The national salary range for Specialist, Product Development - Pet : $79,500.00-$148,500.00

The expected starting salary range for Specialist, Product Development - Pet : $79,500.00 - $119,500.00