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GEICO Product, Sales is seeking a Principal Product Manager - Data to join us on a transformational journey to leverage data as a strategic asset—driving customer-centric innovation, operational excellence, and measurable business outcomes. We’re seeking a dynamic leader to elevate our data products, platforms, and analytics capabilities to the next level to drive a transformative initiative focused on improving data reliability, accessibility, and AI readiness across the organization. This role will be pivotal in capturing requirements, validating data streams, establishing robust governance, and ensuring the ongoing health of the data infrastructure to enable self-service, automation, and personalization.
As the Principal Product Manager – Data, you will own the vision, strategy, roadmap and execution for high-impact data products and platforms that empower business partners, analysts, engineers and customers. You will work at the intersection of business, data science/engineering, and technology to deliver scalable, actionable data solutions that enable insights, decision-making, personalization, risk management, and growth.
This position is a hybrid role 2-3 days per week in the office.
Hybrid locations include: Palo Alto, CA, and Chevy Chase, MD
Key Responsibilities
Requirements Gathering: Lead a comprehensive effort to collect and document requirements from business, product, engineering, and cross-functional partners.
Build and Define Data Infrastructure Requirements: Develop, document, and implement requirements to ensure the health, scalability, and reliability of the sales organization’s data infrastructure. Proactively monitor and address infrastructure issues to maintain optimal performance and data integrity.
Data Validation & Remediation: Analyze current data streams, identify gaps, and execute remediation plans—starting with core workstreams in the GEICO Insurance Agency as a model for broader adoption.
Governance & Quality: Establish and maintain strong data governance practices, including monitoring data thresholds, accuracy, and lineage. Ensure all changes are properly reviewed and approved.
Self-Service Enablement: Organize and label data using a dictionary-driven approach to support scripting, reuse, and accessibility for all teams.
Training & Empowerment: Design and deliver a basic scripting bootcamp to empower business users, adjusters, and leaders to independently pull insights, test hypotheses, and interact with AI agents.
AI Integration: Collaborate on the development and deployment of an AI use case.
Stakeholder Alignment: Ensure alignment and coverage across all sales departments and cross-functional teams.
Evangelize data product capabilities across the organization, enable business users to self-serve insights, build data literacy, and scale adoption
Influence senior leadership and engage stakeholders at all levels to build alignment, secure resources, and remove impediments
Define, measure and manage success metrics (e.g., data quality, availability, latency, self-service adoption, business impact, ROI) and ensure products deliver measurable value
Lead trade-off decisions: balancing business value, technical feasibility, cost, risk and time-to-market
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or related field (advanced degree preferred)
8-12+ years of product management experience (or equivalent) including significant experience leading data-oriented products/platforms
Proven track record of owning and shipping data products or platforms at scale (e.g., CDP, Customer 360, Data Warehouse, Analytics Platform, Identity/Matching, Data Activation)
Proven track record of mapping data lineage and architecture to identify gaps and help address solutions.
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)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in the insurance, financial services or other highly regulated domain
Previous experience as a software or data engineer is a plus
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
Experience with customer-centric data use cases: personalization, segmentation, next-best-action, lifecycle analytics, fraud detection
Prior success in building data self-service tools, data productization, or operationalizing analytics.
Experience engaging and influencing senior executives
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Master's degree in Computer Science, AI or related field
Annual Salary
$146,575.00 - $229,600.00The 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 candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
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