Sr. Product Manager I

Tech Ladies®; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 129,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

PTO

Job summary

Clearwater Analytics seeks a Senior Product Manager – Data Management to design, develop, and oversee the core data management platform. You will own requirements, plan development to production, and partner with clients to ensure success, shaping the roadmap to hit bookings, NPS, and gross margin targets.

You will collaborate with internal stakeholders, clients, and prospects to identify new capabilities, supervise development with your teams, test features with clients, and promote growth

Qualifications

• Experience in investment management data domains (security, trading, analytics, pricing, accounting, risk, custody).
• Proven ability to manage data platform roadmaps and data governance.
• 7+ years as a Product Manager in B2B SaaS.

Responsibilities

• Lead 1–2 scrum teams (9–11 engineers).
• Develop short-, mid-, and long-term roadmaps for a scalable data platform.
• Align roadmap decisions across multiple development teams.

Skills

Investment management knowledge

Roadmaps for data pipelines

B2B SaaS product management

Cloud platforms

SQL databases

Education

Bachelor's/Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

SQL databases

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Location: Chicago

Job type: Full-time

Company

Clearwater Analytics is the natively agentic investment management platform built on a single, continuously reconciled investment record. Portfolio management, trading, accounting, risk, compliance, and private markets workflows run on a single source of truth, creating a connected foundation for automation, AI-driven insights, and agentic workflows across the investment process. Clearwater supports more than $10 trillion in assets globally for insurers, asset managers, hedge funds, banks, corporations, and governments. Learn more at www.cwan.com.

Job Description

Senior Product Manager – Data Management

Job Summary

The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for designing, developing, and overseeing activities related to the core Clearwater investment data management platform. Our market leading, cloud native, single instance multi-tenant architecture intakes data from 1200+ sources and creates a golden source of truth.

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 1-2 scrum teams spanning 9-11 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.
• 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, Risk, Custody data domains is a must have.
• Proven ability to manage roadmaps for data pipelines, Data management feature/functions (Data Quality, Data Governance, Information delivery etc.) including execution, implementation, and influencing skills within the asset management space.
• 7+ years of experience of as a Product Manager that owns all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle in a B2B enterprise SaaS environment.
• Knowledge of capital markets and expertise in equity, fixed income and derivatives is key.
• 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.).
• Strong leadership skills, including ability to influence via diplomacy and tact.
• Experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and SQL 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.

Nice To Have

• Experience of working in asset management company or insurance firm is helpful.
• CFA, FRM cleared candidates get an added advantage.
• Experience of working on AI, machine learning and/or LLM based projects is an edge.
• Experience of working with Portfolio managers, traders, researchers is valuable.
• Knowledge, experience of working on private assets is helpful.

Salary Range

$129,200.00 - $174,173.00

For this role, benefits include: health/vision/dental insurance, 401(k), PTO, parental leave, and medical leave, STD/LTD insurance benefits. Clearwater Analytics is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.