Director of Product - Middle Office Operations

Clearwater Analytics • New York, NY

9d

About The Position

As the Director of Product, you will play a critical role as Clearwater continues to expand in the investment management space. You will develop and execute a long-term product strategy and roadmap based on market information and internal collaboration across executives and key stakeholders. You will interface with clients and prospects across the industry to build high quality customer experiences. You will be responsible for mentoring and coaching the product managers on your team and the Product organization at large. In addition, you will drive cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Sales, Operations, Marketing, and others to achieve your vision. Thank you for your interest in a career with Clearwater! 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. 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.

Requirements

• Knowledge of investments and investment accounting; experience working with investment managers and the trade management process a plus
• 10+ years product management experience; 5+ years leading a product organization
• Exemplary interpersonal, communication, and project management skills
• Excellent team and relationship building abilities, with both internal and external parties (engineers, business stakeholders, partners, etc.)
• Ability to influence executives, senior leaders, and key stakeholders via diplomacy and tact a must

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients, prospects, executives, the Global sales team, and other product managers to define a product strategy and roadmap including prioritizing work and providing justification for decisions.
• Gain a deep understanding of the customer requirements; identify, and fill product gaps, and generate new ideas that drive growth and customer satisfaction
• Guide engineering teams to ensure there is a clear understanding of strategy and user needs for development projects
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders about the roadmap, prioritization, and specific development projects and the value they provide
• Build a team within the Product organization to execute on your strategy
• Mentor members of the Product organization and across the company
• Using evidence-based decision making to drive prioritization; ability to say “no” and explain why in terms stakeholders understand
• Considerable empathy and curiosity with a focus on the customer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed