Principal Product Manager [Remote-US]

Principal Product Manager [Remote-US]

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

The Role

We're looking for an accomplished and well-rounded Principal Product Manager to support our Product Delivery teams and create innovative products and services which deliver value back to State Farms. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team in bringing data science research findings to life by delivering innovative solutions to tough insurance problems. Success in the role includes : (1) partnering with our Data Team and State Farm customers to design innovative new services; (2) working with Quanata Engineering teams and State Farm business and engineering to deliver these services into production.

Your Day-To-Day

With minimal oversight effortlessly manage complex cross-portfolio initiatives with a diverse set of stakeholders

Manage client relationships and expectations, ensure the products Quanata builds are meeting their needs, and contribute to the "sale" of new products and services with executives

Contribute to building Product team culture around customer obsession, experimentation, MVP-style thinking and iteration, etc

Collaborate with data engineering, data science, security and insurance leads and product owners on detailed and complex requirements

Understand the business context of features, work to estimate size and impact of competing projects with partner teams to prioritize accordingly

Leverage a solid technical understanding of data science and data engineering architecture to help drive technical design discussions, understand technical dependencies and communicate requirements to your team

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.

Create short- and long-term roadmaps that balance near-term features needs with platform capabilities

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

Contribute to a Product team culture of iterating on both products and processes

About You

Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant years of experience

10- 12 years experience building B2C or B2B products working with a team of engineers, designers and QA

Strong understanding of software development in at least two of the following areas : cloud-based infrastructure, API and back end services, data science / machine learning

Knowledge of insurance fundamentals and practices a plus

Experience working in an Agile Scrum or Kanban environment as a Product Manager

Comfortable with a multi-stakeholder environment, creating consensus and making timely decisions as needed

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Comfortable operating in a distributed work environment

Bonus Points

Job specific : Experience working with a wide range of personal lines and commercial lines insurance products and configurations.

Job specific : Experience with data science modeling and machine learning practices.

Salary

$270,000 - $348,000

Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills, and experience, as well as the internal salary structure at Quanata. Our aim is to offer a competitive and equitable compensation package that reflects the candidate's expertise and contributions to our organization.

Additional Details

Benefits : We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits. These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.

Work from Home Equipment : Given our virtual environment in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.

Paid Time Off : All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment. New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and / or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.

Personal and Professional Development : We're committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.

Location : We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. Occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.

Hours : We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.