Principal Product Manager Customer Data Platform

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. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company Great Culture Great Rewards and Great Careers.

GEICO subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and a leader in Auto insurance and other product lines is on a multi-year technology transformation journey to reimagine the customer experience in the Insurance industry by removing friction across Customers Partners Marketplace Segments Channels and build a world class experience powered by technology.

As part of this once in a life-time opportunity to build and make a real impact in insurance marketplace we are looking for accomplished customer obsessed and results-oriented Principal Product Managers to build and drive our Customer Data Platform (CDP) roadmap reporting to the Senior Director of CDP & Identity. The CDP will enable a single view of our customers combining multiple data sources to enable operational and analytical use cases for sales claims servicing marketing fraud prevention etc. Our vision is to evolve the CDP into the ultimate data experience for product-led growth and business professionals who arent comfortable with code. Do I use thefirstnameor thefirstNameattribute When and why does thequotestartevent fire Are these 2 customers with similar attributes the same person These questions stop most users in their tracks. We need you to unblock them! This role is perfect if you enjoy getting into the weeds with customers designers and engineers as much as you enjoy building alignment with senior leadership. Both are critical for success. Embarking on our mission to redefine customer engagement the CDP is a key player. With strong executive support for data-driven initiatives our vision emphasizes providing the right data at the right time accelerating the journey to becoming a data-driven organization. At GEICO youll play a pivotal role in shaping the CDPs future. Our core values of collaboration and innovation guide us in delivering best-in-class solutions that delight our customers. Join us on this exciting journey where your contributions will make a lasting impact. This position requires an expert who plans on leading the revolution in customer experiences through our cutting-edge CDP. If you want to be part of shaping the landscape for GEICO to thrive in an ever-evolving environment with the power of data we are looking for you!

This is a hybrid position requiring on-site presence 2-3 days a week at one of the following locations: Palo Alto CA; Seattle WA; Chevy Chase MD Dallas TX Manhattan NY.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Product Management Servicing Sales Fraud Marketing and UX teams to understand use cases and segmentation needs
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to understand their data needs and translate those needs into user stories for Data & Analytics technical and engineering teams.
• Help develop a comprehensive CDP implementation strategy aligned with overall product and customer success goals.
• Identify new data sources and onboard existing data sources to the CDP
• Evolve our identity resolution models (deterministic and probabilistic)
• Build and run queries to answer questions and build segment and build solutions for users of CDP to be able to self-serve
• Be the CDP subject matter expert gathering information to create accurate informative and resonant user stories for both the business and the data team.
• Deeply understand customer needs to define priorities inspire the broader team and deliver best-in-class experiences and enabling capabilities.
• Help build the product roadmap define user stories and drive trade-off decisions.
• Identify new products and features on behalf of the customer leading 1-2 scrum teams to align on mission and deliver great results iteratively.
• Leverage qualitative and quantitative data to measure results inform the roadmap and achieve benefit adoption and financial results.
• Collaborate with Product Analytics Engineering and Business Leaders to drive scalable data solutions.
• Present effectively to high-level stakeholders set clear priorities and direction and build bridges across groups.
• Own the product end-to-end by developing business models defining and analyzing success metrics and managing strategic projects.
• Champion and educate product managers and lines of businesses on what the GEICO CDP can do for their business
• Lead the CDP Squad in achieving strategic outcomes with solutions that are Valuable (our customers choose to use) Viable (the solution works within the constraints of the business) Usable (our customers can figure out how to use) and Feasible (our engineers have the skills and technology to implement)

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent and related experience with 7 years of proven experience as a Product Manager with 4 years in managing Customer Data Platforms
• Technologies for CDP PMs to be familiar with Graph and Cassandra ADLS especially Iceberg Snowflake Kafka Flink ElasticSearch and Rosette Name Indexer or equivalent for Identity Resolution GraphQL
• Strong strategic thinking analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver results in an iterative development environment.
• 4 years on a CDP Reverse ETL Data Warehouse or Integration-as-a-Service product
• Alignment-building expertise - you listen understand and influence at a near-executive level
• Fluency with concepts like unique identifier API ETL etc.
• Data proficiency - you can source analyze and present quantitative and qualitative data
• Excellent writing skills - you write clearly and concisely favoring plain language over jargon
• Initiative - you take ownership of problems when next steps arent clear
• Contribute a deep knowledge of customer data integration identity resolution and the related competitive landscape.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Insurance industry experience is a plus
• An Engineering background is a plus
• Experience building Data Platforms

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include but are not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role the selected candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company:At GEICO we help our customers through lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples lives.

Great Careers:We offer a career where you can learn grow and thrive through personalized development programs created with your career and your potential in mind. Youll have access to industry leading training certification assistance career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture:We foster an inclusive culture of shared success rooted in integrity a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values we have an an established culture of caring inclusion and belonging that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards:We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your familys 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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