Senior Product Manager – Semantic Insurance Data

Duck Creek Payments; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) with match

Health Savings Account

Job summary

Duck Creek Technologies seeks a Senior Product Manager – Semantic Insurance Data in Boston, MA or Bay Area, CA. The role is in-office 2–3 days weekly, with a flexible-first hybrid setup.

You’ll own semantic data capabilities spanning policy, claims, billing, and risk data, guiding strategy and AI-enabled consumption across Duck Creek products. You will collaborate with product, engineering, architecture, data, AI, and customer teams to deliver scalable data products, define metrics, and ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related discipline.
• 6+ years of product management experience in software/SaaS/insurance tech.
• Experience aligning across business, engineering, data teams and customers.
• Able to translate ambiguous problems into strategy, roadmaps, requirements, and outcomes.
• Experience with data products, semantic layers, metadata, APIs, and AI/ML contexts.

Responsibilities

• Define product strategy and roadmap for semantic insurance data capabilities.
• Own canonical data models, relationships, metadata definitions, and AI-ready consumption patterns.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, AI, UX, and success teams to deliver scalable data products.
• Translate complex insurance concepts into prioritized product capabilities for engineers and non-technical users.
• Drive adoption, reuse, and measurable business impact across Duck Creek products.

Skills

Product management

Data product mgmt

Insurance domain knowledge

Stakeholder alignment

Agile methodologies

Technical product mgmt

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Product management tools

Job description

Helping careers take flight. Reshaping an industry. Enable your career to be Made on Duck Creek.

WHO WE ARE:

Duck Creek Technologies is the intelligent solutions provider defining the future of the property and casualty (P&C) and general insurance industry. We are the platform upon which modern insurance systems are built, enabling the industry to capitalize on the power of the cloud to run agile, intelligent, and evergreen operations. Our modern SaaS solutions help insurers set a new standard and revolutionize how consumers interact with insurance companies.

Authenticity, purpose, and transparency are core to Duck Creek, and we believe insurance should be there for individuals and businesses when, where, and how they need it most. Our market-leading solutions are available on a standalone basis or as a full suite, and all are available via Duck Creek OnDemand. With more than 1,000 successful implementations to date, Duck Creek removes the IT burden for insurers so they can focus on the business of insurance.

We have a flock of more than 1,700 employees across the globe and are proud to be a Flexible-First employer. We empower our employees with the choice to work from an office, from home, or on a hybrid schedule. Our flexible-first environment fosters productivity, inclusion, collaboration, and ensures a consistent employee experience regardless of location.

If working in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving company that is transforming one of the world’s oldest and largest industries sounds exciting, let us know.We are excited you are considering Duck Creek as a future employer and hope you decide to join “The Flock”!

To learn more about us, visit www.duckcreek.com and follow us on our social channels for the latest information – LinkedIn and Twitter.

TITLE: Senior Product Manager – Semantic Insurance Data

Work Location: Boston, MA or Bay Area, CA and required to be in the office 2 to 3 times a week.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

The Senior Product Manager – Semantic Insurance Data owns a major product pillar focused on AI-ready insurance data capabilities that make Duck Creek’s policy, claims, billing, coverage, customer, and risk data easier to understand, govern, and consume. This role defines product strategy, roadmap priorities, business meaning, semantic relationships, data quality expectations, and consumption patterns that support AI, analytics, automation, and product teams. The role applies deep property and casualty insurance domain knowledge, technical product management discipline, and data product expertise to translate complex insurance concepts into scalable product capabilities. This role exercises independent judgment to prioritize outcomes, align stakeholders, and guide delivery while partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data, AI, UX, Customer Success, Professional Services, and insurance subject‑matter experts. Define and own the product strategy and roadmap for semantic insurance data capabilities, including canonical insurance concepts, data relationships, metadata, business definitions, and AI‑ready consumption patterns. Own a major semantic data product pillar that enables AI, analytics, automation, and product teams to understand and use insurance data consistently across Duck Creek products and customer implementations. Translate complex insurance business concepts into clear, prioritized product capabilities that can be delivered by engineering teams and consumed by technical and non‑technical users. Partner with Engineering and Architecture to define scalable approaches for semantic models, data contracts, metadata, APIs, knowledge graphs, data products, feature‑ready datasets, and AI grounding layers. Work with AI and data science teams to identify data structures, lineage, context, quality standards, and retrieval patterns required to support LLMs, copilots, agentic workflows, analytics, and decision‑support experiences. Collaborate with Product Managers across Policy, Billing, Claims, Distribution, Data, and Platform teams to align semantic data capabilities with broader product strategy, customer needs, and delivery priorities. Establish common definitions and relationships for high‑value insurance concepts to reduce ambiguity across products, reporting, AI experiences, and customer integrations. Prioritize use cases where semantic insurance data can improve customer outcomes, including coverage interpretation, claims summarization, underwriting support, servicing automation, operational analytics, and cross‑suite intelligence. Define product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business scenarios, and success metrics for semantic data capabilities. Partner with data governance, quality, security, privacy, and compliance stakeholders to ensure semantic data products are designed for responsible and appropriate AI consumption. Drive adoption, quality, and business impact of semantic data products, including reuse across AI use cases, reduction in duplicate mapping work, improvement in AI answer quality, and increased consistency of insurance definitions. Evaluate product performance, stakeholder feedback, implementation patterns, and data quality indicators to refine roadmap priorities and improve semantic data product outcomes.

WHAT YOU’VE DONE:

• REQUIRED: Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Business, Insurance, Analytics, or a related discipline.
• 6+ years of experience in product management, technical product management, data product management, enterprise software, SaaS, insurance technology, data platforms, or related roles.
• Experience owning complex product domains that require alignment across business stakeholders, engineering teams, architects, data teams, and customer‑facing organizations.
• Experience translating ambiguous business, regulatory, and technical problems into product strategy, roadmap priorities, requirements, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience working with data products, data platforms, semantic layers, canonical data models, APIs, metadata, data governance, analytics, AI/ML products, or enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience in property and casualty insurance, general insurance, InsurTech, financial services, or another complex regulated industry.
• PREFERRED Master’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Business, Insurance, Analytics, or a related discipline.
• Experience across multiple property and casualty insurance domains such as underwriting, policy, claims, billing, distribution, reinsurance, or customer servicing.
• Experience with insurance industry software platforms and software‑as‑a‑service solutions.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and product or project management tools.
• Experience with data governance frameworks, semantic modeling practices, or enterprise information models.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Behaviors:

Advanced knowledge of technical product management practices, including roadmap definition, prioritization, requirements development, and success measurement. Deep understanding of property and casualty insurance business concepts, workflows, and data relationships. Knowledge of insurance concepts such as policy, claim, coverage, insured, exposure, premium, deductible, limit, endorsement, exclusion, loss event, payment, reserve, and party relationships. Understanding of semantic modeling, ontology concepts, metadata management, knowledge graphs, canonical models, data catalogs, data contracts, or enterprise information models. Knowledge of AI, LLMs, retrieval‑augmented generation, agentic workflows, analytics, and automation consumption patterns. Understanding of SaaS platforms, data architectures, APIs, event‑driven systems, cloud platforms, and modern software delivery practices. Ability to translate complex insurance, data, regulatory, and technical requirements into structured product capabilities. Ability to define business meaning, data relationships, consumption patterns, and quality expectations for reusable data products. Ability to assess data quality, lineage, completeness, consistency, and fitness for use in AI, analytics, and automation contexts. Ability to prioritize competing stakeholder needs and make product trade‑offs in ambiguous environments. Ability to influence cross‑functional teams and build alignment without direct reporting authority. Ability to communicate complex data and AI concepts to business, technical, and executive stakeholders. Ability to use AI and LLM tools to support product discovery, research, requirements development, documentation, and stakeholder communication. Ability to evaluate adoption, reuse, quality, and business impact measures for semantic data products.

Work Environment & Other Requirements:

Travel: 10% Work Authorization: Must be legally authorized to work in the country of the job location Work Location: Boston, MA or Bay Area, CA Only.

WHAT WE STAND FOR:

Our global company celebrates & leverages the differences each employee brings to the table. Our success is a direct result of an inclusive culture where opportunities to learn from one another occur regardless of title, seniority, or background. This collaborative and team‑oriented approach is at the core of how we operate and continuously improve our products, services, and systems.

As such, Duck Creek is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and applicants – to recruit, hire, train, and reward employees for their individual abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, marital, military, or any other protected status.

We strive to be an example to the world of inclusion, diversity, and equity in all things – where employees are free to be their authentic selves in the workplace and in the communities in which we live.

We believe in leading by example and are proud of the diversity of our team and our shared commitment to our Core Values: We Prioritize Respect; We Listen; We Care; We Add Value; and We Lead.

To learn more about our inclusive company culture, values, DE&I initiatives, and people, please visit: https://www.duckcreek.com/life-at-duck-creek/.

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Duck Creek Technologies does not accept, nor will we pay a fee for any hires resulting from unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes.

Actual compensation for this role is determined based on a variety of factors, including job‑related skills, experience, qualifications, internal equity, and geographic location, where permitted by law. For reference, the expected salary range for this position is generally positioned as follows based on candidate location:

• 153,900 – 219,800: Candidates living in the Boston, New York City–Newark, Los Angeles, San Francisco/Bay Area, Seattle, or Washington, DC metropolitan areas
• 146,700 – 209,500: Candidates living in Chicago, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Minneapolis, or Philadelphia metropolitan areas, or in Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Rhode Island, or Vermont
• 139,400 – 199,100: Candidates living in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Oregon, or Wisconsin
• 123,400 – 192,900: For all other U.S. locations

This position is also eligible for annual bonus compensation, subject to plan terms and individual eligibility. Final compensation will be determined based on the factors outlined above and in accordance with applicable law.

Duck Creek Technologies believes in the safe, ethical, and responsible use of artificial intelligence. We may use AI‑assisted tools to support parts of the recruitment process, such as reviewing applications, identifying relevant skills, and organizing candidate information. AI tools are used to assist—not replace—human judgment. All AI‑assisted outputs are reviewed by a Duck Creek team member, and final hiring decisions are always made by people. Candidates should be comfortable working in environments where AI is used responsibly to enhance business processes.

Duck Creek Technologies offers a comprehensive benefits package, which includes:

• Flexible work environment
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with match (6% employer match up to $12,000 annually)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• Paid holidays, vacation, and volunteer time
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Benefits eligibility and offerings may vary based on role and location.

The application window for this position will remain open until the role is filled or a sufficient number of qualified candidates have been identified.

Duck Creek is a leading provider of comprehensive P&C insurance software and services for insurers of all sizes worldwide. Employing progressive technology, our solutions enable insurers to optimize outcomes and enhance engagement through advanced digital and data capabilities and integrated functionality that can be delivered via the cloud or on premise.