State Expansion Project Manager

JOB SUMMARY:

The State Expansion Project Manager is responsible for leading the strategic planning, governance, and execution of the company's expansion into new states. This role partners closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams including Product, Underwriting, Compliance, Legal, IT, Claims, Finance, Operations, Marketing, and third-party vendors to successfully launch new markets. The Project Manager owns the overall program roadmap, coordinates enterprise-wide workstreams, manages executive steering meetings, oversees vendor implementations, identifies and mitigates risks, and ensures operational readiness through post-launch stabilization. This individual serves as the central leader for state expansion initiatives while establishing repeatable frameworks that support the organization's long-term growth strategy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Lead the end-to-end planning, governance, execution, and delivery of strategic state expansion initiatives.

2. Develop and maintain integrated project plans, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, budgets, and resource plans.

3. Partner with executive leadership to define expansion strategy, priorities, launch readiness, and success metrics.

4. Lead cross-functional teams to ensure all business areas complete required deliverables on schedule.

5. Facilitate executive steering committee meetings, project status meetings, and decision-making sessions.

6. Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate project risks, issues, dependencies, and resource constraints.

7. Coordinate regulatory filing activities with Compliance and Legal while aligning operational readiness to approval timelines.

8. Oversee third-party vendors, implementation partners, and consultants to ensure contractual deliverables and timelines are achieved.

9. Collaborate with Product, Underwriting, Claims, IT, Finance, Operations, Marketing, and Customer Service to prepare each business area for launch.

10. Manage project budgets, vendor statements of work, implementation schedules, and financial tracking.

11. Prepare executive dashboards, presentations, and status reports highlighting milestones, risks, decisions, and overall portfolio health.

12. Support testing, operational readiness, training, go-live planning, and post-launch stabilization activities.

13. Establish standardized project governance, documentation, templates, and best practices for future state expansion efforts.

14. Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to streamline launch processes and reduce implementation timelines.