Senior Product Manager, Insurance Product Design - Mississauga, Canada - Guidewire

    Guidewire
    Guidewire Mississauga, Canada

    2 weeks ago

    Default job background
    Full time
    Description

    Key Responsibilities

  • Work closely with engineering and UX on sprint activities including backlog grooming, prioritization, and requirements gathering.
  • Understanding the market to identify high priority capabilities that will differentiate Guidewire.
  • Diligently perform customer research for design evolution and feedback sessions to ensure the right experience gets built.
  • Articulate both the business value to customers and the corresponding impact to GW of the successful adoption of capabilities.
  • Ability to take requirements from application teams and insurance industry trends for new innovative insurance products, and distill it down to platform capabilities.
  • Build compelling user experiences for customers to create and launch innovative insurance products and manage their existing products, to help grow their business.
  • Collaborate with other platform product managers to ensure seamless configuration end-to-end lifecycle and user journeys.
  • Ability to identify success metrics for Guidewire and customers and use data/analytics platform to bake these into the product.
  • Analyze competitive trends and Insuretech s who are building similar configuration platforms for insurance products.
  • Required Skills & Experience

  • 3+ years of product management experience, preferably in cloud-based and cloud-native business applications and/or highly configurable enterprise software products and solutions.
  • P&C domain knowledge is a must, preferably with past work experience at an insurance company, Insuretech or enterprise company working in the P&C insurance vertical.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills including the ability to present clearly and persuasively to customers, partners, colleagues and senior executives.
  • Highly structured and well-organized individual with ability to successfully manage product management activities across multiple, concurrently running cloud transition programs.
  • BS in Computer Science or another technical major required, and Masters preferred but not required.
  • Deep interest and comprehensive knowledge of P&C insurance.
  • At least 2 years of previous experience in the commercial and/or specialty P&C insurance sector, handling complex insurance products that are technical in nature
  • At least 5 years of previous experience as an insurance product manager, or business analyst with successful implementation of multiple lines of business.
  • Proficiency in risk modeling, global regulatory standards, actuarial science, and latest emerging insurance
  • Previous consulting experience is considered an asset.
  • Previous project management experience is considered an asset.