Senior Product Manager

About Clearwater Analytics® 

Clearwater Analytics® is a global industry-leading SaaS solution provider for automated investment data management, analytics, and reporting. Each day, the Clearwater Analytics solution reports on more than $8.8 trillion in assets for clients that include leading insurers, asset managers, corporations, pension plans, governments, and nonprofit organizations – helping them make the most of their investment portfolio data with a world-class product and client-centric servicing.

Description 

As a Senior Product Manager for Global Accounting, you will play a critical and hands-on role as we continue to refine, enhance, and grow our investment accounting product in different markets around the world.  You will lead a team in India and collaborate with teams in the North American, EMEA, and APAC markets. You will help maintain a product strategy and roadmap based on market information and internal collaboration with sales and solutions teams. You will be able to prioritize strategic initiatives and effectively communicate your vision and strategy to other key stakeholders based on business value.

As you execute your strategy, you will be able to communicate the value both internally and externally consistently. As enhancements and new products are developed, you will collaborate with product marketing to build value proposition and messaging content and help take the product to market. Your existing accounting and financial experience will be leveraged extensively, and you will be able to expand your knowledge of the market and the investment domain. The ideal candidate has experience in the investment management industry with strong accounting, reporting, compliance, and analytical skills.

Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with clients, prospects, subject matter experts, sales leaders, and other product managers to define a product strategy and roadmap including prioritizing work and providing quantifiable business justification for decisions
• Build deep expertise in the client problems, personas, and the value of our accounting and regulatory reporting solutions for Corporate, Insurance and Asset Managers alike.
• Be an accounting subject matter expert for the local team and be a resource for other teams needing accounting support
• Identify and fill product gaps, and generate new ideas that drive growth and customer satisfaction specifically for the accounting products globally
• Keep a pulse on the investment accounting market including changing regulations
• Hands on product management is absolutely a must. You must be able to identify, understand and document the requirements for development projects to ensure the product is built right

• Guide and challenge Product Managers on roadmap priorities. Communicate with internal and external stakeholders about development projects and the value they provide

• Collaborate with Marketing to create product marketing content such as demos, sales collateral, website content, blog articles, and commercial decks
• Enable sales, client services, and operations team on new product functionality and capabilities.
• Measure and drive product adoption, usage, and stability on a monthly basis.

Expectations: 

• Being transparent and data driven about prioritization and the roadmap process; for example, using evidence-based decision making to drive prioritization including close collaboration with the sales team
• Strong desire to learn; for example, understanding the end-to-end Clearwater lifecycle and how our stakeholders interact with each step
• Ability to explain why we are doing what we are doing in terms senior leaders and stakeholders understand. Ability to bridge the gap between product functionality and client business problems and the company’s business goals.
• Considerable empathy and curiosity with a focus on the customer 
• Flexibility and willingness to work with colleagues across time zones

 Requirements: 

• Degree in accounting, finance, or technical domains like computer science
• Demonstrable knowledge of accounting within North America, EMEA, and/or APAC markets. Chartered Accountant (CA) or equivalent is a plus
• Knowledge of accounting treatment for various asset classes and geo specific investment accounting
• Experience in product management or investment accounting at an insurance company or asset manager
• Exemplary interpersonal, communication, and project management skills. Samples will be helpful across written documents/blogs, demo videos, or public speaking videos at conferences or training.
• Excellent team and relationship building abilities, with both internal and external parties (engineers, business stakeholders, partners, etc.) 
• Ability to work well under pressure, multitask, and maintain keen attention to detail 
• Strong leadership skills, including ability to influence via diplomacy and tact 
• Prior experience of creating new commercial streams/product businesses from scratch is a major plus.

Location: Noida, India