Product Manager - Cloud Data Platform

Summary

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.

Job Description

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

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter : @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.

Skills Required

Cloud Solutions, Distributed Systems, data acquisition, Software Engineering, Data Replication, change data capture , Technical Architecture