This Director , product Management will be responsible for designing, developing, and overseeing innovations in core Clearwater investment data management platform namely Single Data Plane . Our market leading, cloud native, single instance multi-tenant architecture intakes data from thousands of sources and creates a golden source of truth.
Reporting to VP, Product Management based in the U.S, this role will oversee defining the product requirements and planning its development to production and working closely with clients to make them successful. Additionally, the Product Manager is tasked with crafting the product roadmap necessary to achieve bookings, client NPS, and gross margin targets associated with their component.
To facilitate growth, the product manager will collaborate with internal stakeholders, clients, and prospects to identify new product capability requirements. They maintain close collaboration with their development teams to ensure the successful creation and introduction of these new capabilities to the market. Furthermore, the Product Manager takes charge of testing and implementing these fresh features with clients and actively promotes future growth to a broader audience of Clearwater clients and prospects.
Responsibilities:
- Team Span: responsible for handling 2 – 3 scrum teams spanning 12 – 15 engineers
- Continuously evaluate current data platform, and build a short (0 – 6 months), medium (6 – 12 months) and longer-term roadmap for a highly scalable, automated and resilient data platform
- Prioritize decisions across products with data driven justification
- Establish alignment on the product roadmap among multiple development teams.
- Efficiently lead the development of cross-product capabilities.
- Contribute to the formulation of the department's development and training plan.
- Advocate for a culture of communication throughout the organization.
- Build release specific product briefs that articulate the client problem for target personas, value, priority and high-level approach
- Keep current with latest technology development in data management, competitors and apply those insights to CW product strategy and execution.
Required Skills:
- Prior experience in Investment management industry with strong knowledge of Security Reference, Trade, Analytics, Pricing, Accounting(ABOR/IBOR) , Performance, Custody data domains is a must have.
- Proven ability to manage roadmaps for data Ingestion platforms , Data management feature/functions (Data Quality, Data Governance, Information delivery etc.) including execution, implementation, and influencing skills within the asset management space.
- 8+ years of experience of as a Product Manager (Ideal but not vital) that owns all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle in a B2B enterprise SaaS environment.
- Knowledge of investments and investment accounting (Very important)
- At least 5 years of experience in structured financial data management platforms across one or more of these: master data management, ETL/ELT, data warehousing or data lake house
- Exemplary interpersonal, communication, and project management skills
- Excellent team and relationship building abilities, with both internal and external parties (engineers, business stakeholders, partners, etc.).
- Ability to work well under pressure, multitask, and maintain keen attention to detail.
- Strong leadership skills, including ability to influence via diplomacy and tact.
- Experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Ability to work with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Excellent attention to detail and strong documentation skills.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Exceptional problem-solving abilities.
Education Background:
- Bachelor's/master’s degree in computer science, engineering or a related field.
- In absence of a technical education, proven hands-on technical experience will be required.
