Clearwater Analytics

Principal - Product Marketing

Clearwater Analytics • $144K — $204K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred or equivalent experience considered.
  • 9+ years of product marketing experience, specifically in financial services.
  • Strong understanding of investment workflows, including risk and performance modeling.
  • Expertise in market research, customer insights, and messaging development.
  • Ability to simplify complex concepts into clear narratives.
  • Strategic thinker with a data-driven problem-solving approach.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
  • Outstanding writing and presentation abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Develop compelling product positioning and messaging for Risk & Performance products.
  • Ensure messaging aligns with Clearwater's platform strategy and long-term vision.
  • Conduct market research to identify trends and opportunities for differentiation.
  • Translate insights into actionable strategies for product positioning and campaign planning.
  • Collaborate with teams to understand customer needs and workflows, particularly for asset managers and hedge funds.
  • Lead cross-functional teams in planning and executing product launches.
  • Equip sales teams with tools and resources for effective product positioning.

Benefits

  • Business casual atmosphere.
  • Team-focused culture promoting innovation and ownership.
  • Access to cutting-edge investment technology.
  • PTO and volunteer time off.
  • Defined and undefined career pathways for growth.
  • Work from anywhere for 3 weeks per year.
  • Work-from-home Fridays.
  • Parental leave for both maternity and paternity.
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Risk & Performance, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the success of our products by championing customer insights, driving go-to-market strategies, and establishing market differentiation. This role requires a strategic mindset, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to position our solutions effectively within the competitive landscape, including articulating how the acquisition of Beacon and the existing risk and performance products strengthens Clearwater's value proposition across the front, middle, and back office.

Key Responsibilities

Product Positioning & Messaging
• Develop compelling product positioning, messaging, and value propositions that resonate with buyers and decision-makers for our Risk & Performance products.
• Ensure messaging highlights differentiation and aligns with Clearwater's unified platform strategy and long-term vision.
• Translate risk & performance capabilities-such as real-time modeling and Python-based analytics-into clear, compelling narratives for front-office users and quant-driven teams.

Market Intelligence & Opportunity Analysis
• Conduct in-depth market research and analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for differentiation.
• Translate insights into actionable strategies for product positioning, enablement, and campaign planning.
• Share findings with internal stakeholders to influence marketing, sales, and product strategy.

Customer-Centric Strategy
• Collaborate with customer success, sales, and product teams to build a deep understanding of customer needs, pain points, and workflows-especially those of sophisticated asset managers and hedge funds.
• Synthesize customer feedback to shape marketing strategy, inform messaging, and influence product innovation priorities.

Go-to-Market Execution
• Lead cross-functional teams in planning and executing product launches.
• Develop and implement GTM strategies and campaigns targeting key verticals and personas, with tailored messaging for insurers, hedge funds asset managers, and asset owners.
• Collaborate with demand generation and content teams to develop high-impact materials that foster awareness, engagement, and conversions.

Sales Enablement & Collaboration
• Equip sales teams with tools, training, and resources to position and sell Risk & Performance products effectively.
• Create product collateral, presentations, objection-handling guides, and enablement materials.

You're an ideal candidate for the role if you possess:
• Bachelor's degree (MBA a plus; equivalent experience considered).
• 9+ years of experience in product marketing; financial services experience is a must.
• Strong understanding of investment workflows, including risk, performance, and front-office modeling.
• Deep expertise in market research, customer insights, and messaging development.
• Ability to distill complex concepts into clear, compelling narratives.
• Strategic thinker with a data-driven approach to problem-solving.
• Highly collaborative, with excellent cross-functional communication skills.
• Outstanding writing and presentation skills.

What We Offer
• Business casual atmosphere.
• Team-focused culture that promotes innovation and ownership.
• Access to cutting-edge investment technology and market leadership.
• PTO and volunteer time off.
• Defined and undefined career pathways-grow your own way.
• Work from anywhere 3 weeks per year.
• Work-from-home Fridays.
• Parental leave (maternity and paternity).

Salary Range
$144,000.00 - $204,000.00
This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, benefits include: health/vision/dental insurance, 401(k), PTO, parental leave, and medical leave, STD/LTD insurance benefits.

About Clearwater Analytics

Clearwater Analytics is a global SaaS solution for automated investment data aggregation, reconciliation, accounting, and reporting. Clearwater helps thousands of organizations make the most of investment portfolio data with cloud-native software and client-centric servicing. Every day, investment professionals worldwide trust Clearwater to deliver timely, validated investment data and in-depth reporting. Clearwater aggregates, reconciles, and reports on more than $5.5 trillion in assets across thousands of accounts daily for our Fortune 500 clients.
Learn more about Clearwater Analytics
Size
1,500 employees
Market Cap
$4.4 billion
Industry
NASDAQ

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