Duck Creek Technologies announced the appointment of Jose Lazares as Chief Product Officer to lead Duck Creek's global product organization and play a central role in setting product and platform vision, advancing AI innovation, and turning strategic priorities into customer-focused roadmaps across its cloud platform. Lazares brings more than two decades of experience building, scaling, and delivering cloud-based software platforms across SaaS, PaaS, and enterprise environments. He is widely recognized for leading applied AI initiatives that support intelligent decision-making, process automation, and enterprise-wide adoption while driving sustained revenue growth.

Before joining Duck Creek, Lazares served as Chief Product Officer at Beyond Limits, where he led global product strategy and development across engineering, product management, user experience and customer operations. While overseeing a global team, he launched a low-code hybrid Agentic AI platform combining generative and symbolic AI to enable intelligent decisioning and process automation. He also drove enterprise adoption by developing strategic AI partnerships with global energy providers.

Prior to his role at Beyond Limits, he served as the Chief Product Officer at Onna and held senior leadership roles at Intapp, Cisco, Oracle, and PeopleSoft. Lazares holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California Berkeley.