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Product Manager, Data Platform – Data Ingestion and Movement

Government Employees Insurance Company
Full-time
Remote
United States
$88,150 - $157,850 USD yearly

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 Ingestion and Movement platform. This role will help drive product direction for our data ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data movement services, focusing on enabling reliable data flow into our lakehouse and other data stores. The ideal candidate will have a technical background in data engineering and experience delivering scalable data platforms and data pipeline solutions. 

Description 

As a Product Manager for Data Ingestion and Movement, you will be responsible for supporting the product vision and execution for GEICO's data ingestion and movement products. To successfully shape a platform that enables pipeline-as-a-service and supports a scalable data mesh architecture, a strong technical understanding of data pipelines, data integration patterns, data orchestration, ETL/ELT processes, and platform engineering is essential.  Your goal is to abstract complexity and empower domain teams to autonomously and efficiently build, deploy, and govern data pipelines.  This role also requires stakeholder management skills and the ability to bridge technical solutions with business value. 

Key Responsibilities 

  • Support the development and execution of data ingestion and movement platform vision aligned with business goals and customer needs 

  • Help create and maintain a clear, prioritized roadmap for data ingestion and movement capabilities that balances short-term delivery with long-term strategic objectives 

  • Support evangelizing the Data Ingestion and Movement platform across the organization and help drive stakeholder alignment 

  • Stay abreast of industry trends and competitive landscape (Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, Google Cloud Dataflow, etc.) to inform data ingestion strategy 

  • Support requirement gathering and product strategy for data ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data movement services 

  • Understand end-to-end data ingestion workflows and how data movement fits into the broader data ecosystem and downstream analytics 

  • Support data governance initiatives for data lineage, quality, and compliance in data ingestion and movement processes 

  • Ensure data ingestion and movement processes adhere to regulatory, compliance, and data quality standards 

  • Partner with engineering on the development of data ingestion tools, pipeline orchestration services, and data movement capabilities 

  • Help define product capabilities for data ingestion, pipeline monitoring, error handling, and data quality validation to improve reliability and performance 

  • Support customer roadshows and training on data ingestion and movement capabilities 

  • Build instrumentation and observability into data ingestion and movement tools to enable data-driven product decisions and pipeline monitoring 

  • Work closely with engineering, data engineering, and data teams to ensure seamless delivery of data ingestion and movement products 

  • Partner with customer success, support, and engineering teams to create clear feedback loops 

  • Translate data ingestion and movement technical capabilities into business value and user benefits 

  • Support alignment across multiple stakeholders and teams in complex, ambiguous environments 

Qualifications 

 

  • Understanding of data ingestion patterns, ETL/ELT processes, and data pipeline architectures (Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, AWS Glue, etc.) 

  • Experience with data integration APIs, connectors, and data pipeline orchestration tools 

  • Basic understanding of data pipeline monitoring, observability, and data quality validation 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 

Preferred 

  • 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 ingestion tools (Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, AWS Kinesis, Azure Event Hubs, etc.) 

  • Knowledge of data lineage, data quality frameworks, and compliance requirements for data ingestion 

  • Insurance industry experience 

Experience 

  • Minimum 5+ years of technical product management experience building platforms that support data ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines, data engineering, and 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 

Education 

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, management information systems, or related technical field  

  • MBA/MS or equivalent experience preferred 


 

Annual Salary

$88,150.00 - $157,850.00

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 candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.


 

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.


 

The GEICO Pledge:

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

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s 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.  You’ll 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 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.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.