Product Manager - Data Platform

Key Skills

AWS, B2B, Big Data Technology, Cloud computing, Product Management, SaaS, Software Development, UX design

Job Description

Guidewire is widely recognized as the leading provider of software solutions for the property and casualty insurance industry. Our software offers property and casualty insurance companies the tools to take care of their customers when they need it the most, whether that is a time of crisis, a natural disaster, an accident, or exposure to cyber risks.   

We are looking for a product management professional to join our data platform team. Guidewire’s Data Platform team is responsible for building an integrated, scalable, secure, and robust data platform, to help both our internal development teams & our customers leverage data easily.

The platform is designed to support all our analytics, data science, and data management applications, while being integrated foundationally across our broad product portfolio, to usher in a new era of analytic driven experiences, services, and insurance product offerings for the property & casualty industry.

In this role, you will specifically focus on the data access & integration experience of the data platform. You will work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment to guide products from conception to launch by connecting the technical and business worlds. You will break down complex problems into steps that drive product development at speed. This opportunity is not just to build products, but to be part of a team that helps transform an industry with data & analytic driven technology at the center.

What You Will Do

• Lead one or more engineering teams through the ideation, technical development, and launch of innovative product capabilities, geared towards ingestion of data into the platform.
• Drive feature level design sessions and product development with engineers, architects & UX
• Establish a shared vision across the company by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution.
• Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products.
• Work through ambiguity and bring clarity to the problem so the team can ideate on creative solutions. 
• You will work with your manager and peers to ensure alignment of your team's work with the larger Data Platform and Analytics organization's roadmap.
• Gather and define the requirements that will be used to research and innovate new methods of data acquisition in the cloud.
• Be the expert who can help customers, QA, support, sales, and other groups with questions about our cloud native data infrastructure and products.
• Manage dependencies across different teams and ensure features are delivered on time.
• Triage, prioritize and respond to customer issues and escalations.
• Develop a deep understanding of customers’ needs, goals and challenges in order to ensure successful adoption of Data Platform Products.

What We Are Looking For In This Role

• We need overall 4+ years of experience.
• 2+ years product management experience.
• 2+ years of experience working with technical architecture of cloud solutions & security.
• This role requires conceptual understanding & knowledge of the Big Data ecosystem and AWS (Amazon Web Services) landscape. Good have a high level understanding of micro services and distributed systems.
• Cloud native software delivery experience.
• Ability to manage complex initiatives with limited supervision.
• You are driven, focused, and quick to take ownership of your work.
• Adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in ambiguity.
• You should feel comfortable with data ingestion, cataloging, integration, and enrichment concepts and techniques and be able to understand how data relates to end user analytics requirements and applications.
• Technical knowledge of big data & cloud technologies, services, tooling & infrastructure preferred.
• Experience working with different technologies used for data acquisition and data replication, like change data capture is preferred.
• Experience working with B2B SaaS (software as a service) companies is a plus.
• Software engineering experience is a plus.