Product Manager, Data Integration- (REMOTE OPTION)- Canada

Join our growing Business Technology team to empower the business to achieve our next chapter of global growth and scale with a digital workforce. We are seeking a pragmatic and accomplished innovative enterprise data and integration Product Manager who will lead our partnership with Guidewire's Business teams and be responsible for defining and managing the product delivery of the enterprise dashboards and reports and systems integration. The Product Manager, Data and Integration is accountable and responsible for planning roadmaps, driving execution of all deliverables, work closely with a highly skilled technical team and collaborate with multiple business partners throughout Guidewire. This position will report directly to the Sr. Director, Enterprise Data & Integration. To be successful at this position, you must be a self-starter with the ability to take ownership, work under pressure, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously. You must possess good oral and written documentation skills and collaborate effectively with other team members. You will also contribute ideas and provide feedback on many aspects within the team's project portfolio that may be outside your domain of expertise. This role requires a flexible working schedule as team members and business users are in multiple regions and time zones. Flexible work-from-home options are available.

Responsibilities:

• The primary interface for the BI scrum team, highly and actively engaged to ensure development decisions stay aligned with business needs
• Collaborate with the product owners throughout the business to align product backlog and dependencies
• Research, clarify and document business requirements and/or business rules with business stakeholders to ensure alignment and to set proper expectations
• Gather inputs used in creating and managing a BI backlog for Data and Integration: defining and prioritizing requests, mapping them to release increments within an overall product roadmap and release plan for the products assigned
• Distill user stories into granular functional requirements that are comprehensively and concisely documented for the development team
• Provide and communicate analysis and requirement artifacts as required in supporting the development team. Includes data flow mapping, diagrams, use cases, process flows, context diagrams, and story maps
• Ensure that user story-level activity and execution is swift and timely within the BI development team
• Establish clear release plans, and own acceptance criteria in measuring the completion of capabilities called for in user stories
• Maintain and communicate a release-level burndown chart, drawing from the completion of individual user stories within the product backlog and overall component roadmap
• Participate in change management activities like UAT, training, communications, business readiness, etc.
• Strong knowledge of agile principles and process; work closely with the scrum teams throughout the development process.
• Hands-on experience in global implementations leveraging tools like MuleSoft, Informatica, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, Snowflake, etc.
• Manage the ThoughtSpot visualization team and ensure a timely delivery of the dashboards

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Product Manager for a mid-to-large sized organization, or direct consulting expertise leading sales & marketing, support, and services transformation projects
• Proven ability to manage shared horizontal services that often require managing multiple timelines and integrated release schedules
• Experience developing LOE's in conjunction with sales, services, support, and other business use cases/stories
• Deep familiarity with BI/Analytics/Data warehouse concepts and designs
• Hands-on experience in mid-size, global implementations leveraging tools like MuleSoft, Informatica, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, Snowflake, etc.
• Ability to communicate technical details regarding application integration, ETL, data visualization, and BI concepts and frameworks
• Familiarity and exposure to enterprise SaaS applications like Salesforce, Workday, Oracle Financials, Coupa, Concur, etc.
• Excellent documentation skills in authoring product requirements and use cases for software development
• Highly professional interpersonal, teamwork, oral, and written communication skills
• Outstanding troubleshooting capability for ferreting out issues and driving resolution
• Proven ability to take the lead in assigned responsibilities with light supervision
• Working knowledge of Lucidchart, Confluence, SharePoint, and Jira
• Demonstrated ability to plan roadmaps and execute effectively against them
• Strong knowledge of agile principles and process
• Hold a current Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), CSM, or PSM certification

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About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 450 insurers, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.
As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of add-ons that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.
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