Product Manager, Data Platform

Geico Insurance•Chicago, IL

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About The Position

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That's why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. GEICO is looking for a customer-obsessed and results-oriented Product Manager to support our Data Platform. This role will help drive product direction for our data platform, services, and tools, focusing on enabling data products and data mesh architecture. The ideal candidate will have a technical background in data platforms and experience delivering scalable solutions. Description As a Product Manager for the Data Platform, you will be responsible for supporting the product vision and execution for GEICO's data platform products. This role requires technical understanding of data platforms and modern data architectures, stakeholder management skills, and the ability to bridge technical solutions with business value.

Requirements

Understanding of modern data architectures, query engines, and compute frameworks (Spark, Trino, Databricks, Presto, etc.)
Experience with APIs, SDKs, or client integration layers for platforms
Experience with working with vendor platforms, tools, and services as a product manager, incorporating them into the roadmap and product strategy
Basic understanding of instrumentation, telemetry, and observability practices
Experience in cloud data ecosystems (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities with a data-driven approach to decision-making
Experience working with Agile methodologies and tools (JIRA, Azure DevOps)
Good communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills
Strong organizational skills with ability to manage product backlogs
Minimum 5+ years of technical product management experience with data platforms, developer tools, distributed systems, or data infrastructure
Track record of delivering successful products in fast-paced environments
Experience supporting complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives
Proven ability to work with technical teams and translate business requirements into technical product specifications
Experience with customer research, user interviews, and data-driven decision making
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, management information systems, or related technical field required

Nice To Haves

Previous experience as a software or data engineer is a plus
Strong business acumen to prioritize features based on customer value and business impact
Experience with data analytics tools (Jupyter Notebooks, Apache Superset, Tableau, Power BI, etc.)
Experience with semantic models and layers
Knowledge of data governance frameworks and compliance requirements
Insurance industry experience
MBA/MS or equivalent experience preferred

Responsibilities

Support the development and execution of platform vision aligned with business goals and customer needs
Help create and maintain a clear, prioritized roadmap that balances short-term delivery with long-term strategic objectives
Support evangelizing the Data Platform across the organization and help drive stakeholder alignment
Stay abreast of industry trends and competitive landscape (Snowflake, AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) to inform platform strategy
Support requirement gathering and product strategy for data platform services and tools
Understand end-to-end data analytics and AI/ML operations workflows and how data platforms fit into the broader data ecosystem
Support data governance initiatives and cross-team collaboration with other data teams
Ensure platform adheres to regulatory, compliance, and data quality standards
Partner with engineering on the development of tools and services that increase adoption of the Data Platform
Help define product capabilities to improve platform accessibility, reliability, usability, security, and performance.
Support customer roadshows and training on data platform capabilities
Build instrumentation and observability into data platform tools and services to enable data-driven production decisions
Work closely with engineering, design, and data teams to ensure seamless product delivery
Partner with customer success, support, and engineering teams to create clear feedback loops
Translate technical capabilities into business value and user benefits
Support alignment across multiple stakeholders and teams in complex, ambiguous environments

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family's overall well-being.
Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

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