Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.
• 5+ years of relevant product management experience or equivalent experience within the banking or financial services industry.
• Knowledge of financial services industry and associated products
• Requires general business skills, industry knowledge, financial management and planning skills, long-term vision and executive presence
• Effective presentation and interpersonal skills; verbal, written and via slide presentation
• Client relationship management skills, understanding and focusing on clients’ needs, establishing credibility and building positive, professional, relationships with clients
• Strong people management and analytical, problem-solving skills
• Natural leadership skills built out of sound decision-making and trust
• A positive approach that exhibits respectfulness of others, willingness to take accountability, and a strong tendency towards teamwork and transparency.

Responsibilities

• Plans the key aspects of your digital banking solution strategy.
• Understands the market trends and competitive environment, as well as the needs of banking clients and their customers.
• Demonstrates leadership through the establishment and articulation of a clear vision and how that translates to objectives and key results.
• Owns the product roadmap for your solutions. Shares and presents these roadmaps across a broad set of stakeholders.
• Executes on the strategy.
• Determines priorities across the development cycle.
• Builds and drives the adoption of product requirement documents for your responsible solutions. This includes identifying risks and challenges, opportunities and growth strategies, and turning those into actionable work.
• Collaborates with partners and clients.
• Drives close connection with partner teams and stakeholders to create true interlock on product plans and timelines.
• Manages product expectations and team direction in the annual planning process and the regular budgeting process.
• Engages and interacts with clients during feedback sessions, focus groups, user groups and requirements gathering sessions. Practices open and honest communications with clients.
• Manages vendor relationships key to product delivery and collaborates with vendor support managers for oversight and maintenance of all secondary and support vendor relationships.
• Acts as a thought leader.
• Collaborates with senior management to provide content for market messages, sales collateral and as needed RFPs (request for proposal).
• Presents product information and industry thought leadership to external audiences in webinars and client conferences.
• Provides presentations to clients during business reviews, prospect briefings and internal group meetings.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.