Senior Product Manager - Data Access

Summary

Guidewire Cloud Platform


As a Senior Product Manager working on the Guidewire Cloud Platform, you will build products that enable Guidewire customers to develop, build, test, deploy, and manage any Guidewire application in the cloud with ease. In particular, you will be responsible for defining the business strategy and the requirements for the data access aspects of the Guidewire Cloud Platform. Our cross-functional product teams drive vision, roadmap, discovery, execution, and delivery of products that enable Insurers to innovate quickly, easily, and at scale.

The platform product area (GWCP) is a relatively new part of Guidewire that is rapidly growing to meet customer and business demand. This role will have the opportunity to strongly influence the product and team, and to develop new strategies.

Guidewire’s culture is defined by integrity, collegiality, and rationality where each team member is valued for who they are and what they bring. Our mission every single day is to learn, share, and collaborate while delivering the best product experience for our customers.


The role requires working from the office 10 days per month (every Tuesday and Wednesday, and Monday-Thursday during the in-office week of each month).

Job Description

What will you do:

• Gain an in-depth understanding of the cloud ecosystem that enables Guidewire applications, the market, competition, and user requirements.

• Work with Customers to understand their needs, business drivers and to identify opportunities or potential insights out of their data housed in Guidewire Data Platform in conjunction with data housed in their own systems.

• Seek opportunities to generate new revenue streams for the Guidewire Cloud Platform with a focus on platform features supporting various aspects of accessing the data on the platform (including Guidewire Data Platform functionalities and various data-access features like read replicas, exporting database snapshots, etc.) 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to discover and evaluate opportunities, and prioritize and refine solutions. 

• Work collaboratively with other Product managers, Go To Market, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, UX, Operations, Enablement and other Business teams to define and maximize the value of our solutions. 

• Envision smart solutions to complex problems while collaborating as needed across regions, product areas, and functions. 

• Work with Engineering and development-facing Product Managers to build and communicate roadmaps and requirements to teams and appropriate stakeholders. 

• Provide input and participate in quarterly planning meetings.

• Continuously convert chaos to clarity for the team.

What we’re looking for in this role:

• A Product Manager who enjoys working directly with customers to understand their needs and define functional requirements for how our platform services them.

• Collaborative, self-motivated, positive team player who is curious and has excellent communication skills with experience in working across global time zones.

• Self-starter with an owner and problem-solving mindset, not afraid of taking initiative and driving solutions.

• Experience working directly with customers, sales, marketing, and other customer-facing roles.

• Experience with translating customer needs into functional requirements.

• Experience with generating insights out of a large amount of data and out of data from various types (i.e. schema-on-write like structured data in a table, and schema-on-read like non-structured data in the form of JSON payloads). 

• Experience with various database and data access concepts focusing on cloud and SaaS (Software as a Service) aspects (RDS, Data Platform, data curation, database backups, read replicas, database snapshots, etc.)

• Knowledge base in cloud technology concepts including workflows, tools, and architecture

• Experience driving a discovery process including capturing data, analysis, forming a hypothesis, and testing;

• Experience working with strategic product roadmaps, working on cross-functional teams, measuring outcomes, and delivering results;

• Excellent English speaking and written communication skills

• Flexibility and ability to adapt to change in a fast-paced work environment

• Ability to travel 10-25% of the time