Remote Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join our team at Quanata as a Product Manager and help drive context-based insurance solutions. As a strong communicator with a passion for machine learning and big data, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to take services and features from concept to production launch.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Eight or more years experience in a similar/complementary role for a cloud-based or software-as-a-service product line
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum or Kanban environment as a Product Manager
• Comfortable with a distributed multi-stakeholder environment, creating consensus and making timely decisions as needed
• Strong understanding of software development in at least two of the following areas: cloud-based infrastructure, API and backend services, databases, analytics
• Strong technical understanding of data engineering/data analytics fundamentals Ability to drive technical decisions in collaboration with your team
• High degree of analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in all things Atlassian - most notably Jira & Confluence

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering, data science and insurance leads and product owners on detailed and complex requirements with a solid technical understanding
• Manage scope, balance trade-offs, define goals, set priorities and oversee a backlog of features from story to acceptance throughout the Agile software development lifecycle
• Lead your team via both Agile Scrum and Kanban work management methodologies
• Evaluate off the shelf solutions and make build vs. buy recommendations
• Facilitate development efforts, timelines, deliverables with other product owners, project managers, program managers, and scrum masters
• Help drive technical design discussions, understand technical dependencies and communicate requirements to your team
• Value performance, scalability and security implications related to design and architecture decisions
• Participate in setting tactical day-to-day priorities for your team
• Make and communicate decisions based on data and evidence; enable data collection for analysis
• Communicate strategy, priorities, and roadmap to all relevant participants and stakeholders
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to prototype, test, learn and create solid and architecturally sound products and services

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents
• Headspace app subscription
• Monthly wellness allowance
• 401(k) Plan with a company match
• Four weeks of PTO in the first year of employment
• Twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child
• Up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development
• Udemy subscriptions
• Access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp