Sr. Product Manager I

Clearwater Analytics, LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 129,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/vision/dental insurance

401(k)

PTO

Parental leave

Medical leave

STD/LTD insurance

Job summary

Clearwater Analytics, a cloud-native, single-instance, multi-tenant platform leader, seeks a Senior Product Manager for data management. You will guide data flow from 1200+ sources to a golden source of truth, shaping roadmaps to hit bookings, client NPS, and gross margin targets.

Work with clients and internal teams to define requirements and bring features to market. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify new capabilities, prioritize work, and oversee production deployment

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a Product Manager in a B2B enterprise SaaS environment.
• Experience with data platforms: Data Quality, Data Governance, Information delivery.
• Strong knowledge of capital markets: equity, fixed income, derivatives.
• Experience in structured financial data management: MDM, ETL/ELT, data warehousing.
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead 1-2 scrum teams (9-11 engineers) and set roadmap milestones.
• Define short, medium, and long-term roadmaps for scalable data platform.
• Align product roadmap across multiple development teams.
• Lead cross-product capability development and client-focused briefs.
• Stay current with data management tech and apply insights to strategy.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive adoption and growth.

Skills

Investment management

Data pipelines

Roadmaps

B2B SaaS

Cloud platforms

SQL databases

Leadership

Communication

Education

BS/MS in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

SQL databases

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 This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

Benefits

• health/vision/dental insurance
• 401(k)
• PTO
• parental leave
• medical leave
• STD/LTD insurance benefits

Equal Opportunity

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.

Diversity Statement

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to still apply! You may be just what we're looking for.

About Clearwater Analytics

Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN) is transforming investment management with the industry’s most comprehensive cloud-native platform for institutional investors across global public and private markets. While legacy systems create risk, inefficiency, and data fragmentation, Clearwater’s single-instance, multi-tenant architecture delivers real-time data and AI-driven insights throughout the investment lifecycle. The platform eliminates information silos by integrating portfolio management, trading, investment accounting, reconciliation, regulatory reporting, performance, compliance, and risk analytics in one unified system. Serving leading insurers, asset managers, hedge funds, banks, corporations, and governments, Clearwater supports over $8.8 trillion in assets globally. Learn more at www.clearwateranalytics.com.

Thank you for your interest in a career with Clearwater!