Senior Data Product Owner, Data Governance

Overview: 

If you're looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we’re hiring. SageSure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking a Senior Data Product Owner – Analytics Engineering. This role helps to create and make decisions around both the vision and roadmap for the data products, addresses concerns about the satisfaction of the data customers, and continuously measures and improves the quality and richness of the data her/his domain owns and produces. This is a great opportunity to work with an amazing technical data team and facilitate our collective mission to deliver actionable datasets at appropriate levels of curation for innovation, actuarial, BI analyst, data scientist, and software application data customers. You are a passionate advocate for your stakeholders and will drive the deliverables to completion. You are a true owner of the data products produced and are accountable to their level of analytical business value delivery. 

What you’d be doing: 

• Manage all stages of the data development lifecycle, overseeing ingestion through product delivery of core, enterprise-wide tables. 
• Investigate existing data usage patterns and influence changes when new data assets are introduced. 
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of current and future stakeholder needs. 
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to design and deliver products that offer insights for strategic and tactical decision-making. 
• Work closely with the Director of Data Engineering to execute strategic priorities. 
• Communicate technical concepts effectively and simplify complex ideas for others within the organization. 
• Prioritize data request backlogs and handle incoming tickets, facilitating requirements gathering and translating them into executable work. 
• Be accountable for end-to-end product delivery and collaborate on launch communication, training, and ongoing adoption strategies. 
• Provide ongoing support to stakeholders and end-users of data products. 
• Monitor data product use to assist platform partners in making invest/divest decisions. 
• Evaluate product progress and quality at each stage of the process. 
• Collaborate with data leadership and project management to meet deadlines and ensure the highest utility and quality of data work products. 

We’re looking for someone who has: 

• Bachelor’s degree. 
• Experience as an analyst, ETL developer, or IT/data project manager. 
• Experience in an Agile (Scrum/Kanban/etc.) environment. 
• Proven experience working effectively with diverse stakeholders. 
• Familiarity with tools such as Confluence, SharePoint, JIRA, Asana, or similar for requirements capturing and task management. 
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. 
• Strong organizational and time management skills. 
• Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones. 
• Self-starter with a growth mindset. 
• Familiarity with data engineering concepts, including ETL pipelines and data warehouse infrastructure. 

Highly preferred candidates also have: 

• Agile and/or project management certification(s). 
• Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field. 
• 3+ years of experience in Personal or Commercial lines carrier. 

About SageSure:

As a Best Places to Work in Insurance Recipient for four years in a row (2020-2023), SageSure, one of the largest residential property insurance managing general underwriter (MGU) in the United States, is pioneering ways people protect their American Dream.

A leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, SageSure was founded in 2009 to deliver reliable products, exceptional customer experiences, and strong underwriting results in challenging insurance markets. SageSure currently operates in 14 states and provides home, flood, and commercial coverage on behalf of its highly rated carrier partners.

We have more than 600 employees working remotely or hybrid in one of our eight offices—Jersey City, NJ; Mountain View, CA; Chicago, IL; Tallahassee, FL; Cincinnati, OH; Houston, TX; Mt. Laurel, NJ; and Cheshire, CT—who are tackling the industry’s toughest challenges.  

We provide generous health benefits and perks, including tuition reimbursement, wellness allowance, paid volunteer time off, a matching 401K plan, and more.

SageSure is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a workforce that reflects the spectrum of perspectives, experiences, and abilities of the world we live in. We recognize that our differences make us strong, and we actively seek out diverse candidates through partnerships with organizations, institutions and communities that represent various backgrounds. We champion belonging and inclusion for all identities, including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, ability status, gender, and country of origin, striving to create a culture where all individuals feel valued, respected, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.

Our nimble, highly responsive culture nurtures critical thinkers who run toward problems and engineer solutions. We relentlessly pursue better outcomes by investing in the technology, talent, and tools that position us to succeed in demanding markets. Come join our team! Visit sagesure.com/careers to find a position for you.