Product Assistant jobs in United States, New York, New York

As a Product Manager, you know what it takes to design, develop and drive the adoption of great digital products and services.

Your key responsibilities

Working with strategists, designers, developers and other key stakeholders, you will be responsible for concepting, designing, and developing digital products and services that address a market opportunity.

You will create personas, conduct product research to inform concepts and new features, design products, and develop the corresponding user stories and requirements. You will manage the product backlog, work day-to-day with the engineering teams to clarify requirements and recommend alternative approaches to meeting business requirements when necessary.

You will conduct ongoing experimentation and evaluate user feedback, usage of the product and key metrics, with an eye toward continuously improving the product and user experience.You also will drive ongoing market and user research to shape the longer-term product strategy and product roadmap.

Skills and attributes for success

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline
• 5+ years of solid product management experience
• Obsessive attention to detail and organizational skills
• Ability to learn quickly, and execute independently with minimal guidance
• Excellent oral, written, and visual communication and presentation skills

• Passion for creating products and experiences that resonate with users and demonstrate strong adoption

• Proven track record of success launching and iterating customer-facing digital products
• Ability to synthesize input and insights from multiple sources and prioritize accordingly
• Experience working in Agile, with generative AI, on mobile product development, and on customer-facing digital products
• Some technical knowledge from formal education or practical experience

Ideally, you will have

• Demonstrated continuous learning and exploration of emergent technologies and methods
• A relentless mindset for problem solving and originating new solutions

What we look for

• Strong experience in managing developer teams – whether they are in-house or outsourced
• The ability to stay agile, resolve business challenges efficiently, and ensure high-quality results without getting bogged down in the process
• Proactive individuals who can engage and energize their teams, peers and stakeholders

Your key responsibilities

• Engage and contribute to the Identity & Access Management projects
• Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress
• Execute the engagement requirements, along with review of work by junior team members
• Help prepare reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other interested parties
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel
• Build strong internal relationships within EY Consulting Services and with other services across the organization
• Help senior team members in performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff/junior level team members
• Contribute to people related initiatives including recruiting and retaining IAM professionals
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures
• Building a quality culture at GTH
• Manage the performance management for the direct reportees, as per the organization policies
• Foster teamwork and lead by example
• Training and mentoring of project resources
• Participating in the organization-wide people initiatives

Skills and attributes for success

• Hands-on experience on end to end implementation of Identity and Access Management tool.
• Completed at least 2-5 implementations.
• Good understanding of Identity Access Management solutions.
• Hands-on Java development and debugging experience.
• Strong Understanding of Java API’s, libraries, methods and good understanding of XML.
• Should be capable of dissecting large problems and designing modular, scalable solutions.
• Familiarity with any Java Framework (Struts/ Spring) is an additional advantage.
• Should be familiar with application servers such as Tomcat and WebLogic.
• Should have good understanding of RDMS and SQL queries.
• Hands-on experience in setting up the Identity and Access Management environment in standalone and cluster environment.
• Hands-on Development experience on Provisioning Workflows, triggers, Rules and customizing the tool as per the requirements.
• Strong understanding of LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).
• Capability of understanding the business requirements and converting that into design.
• Good knowledge of information security, standards and regulations.
• Should be flexible to work on new technologies in IAM domain.
• Worked in capacity of techno-functional role of Identity and Access Management Implementation.
• Worked in client facing role.
• Need to be thorough in their respective tool with hands-on experience involving configuration, implementation & customization.
• Deployment of web application & basic troubleshooting of web application issues.
• Need to liaise with Business stakeholders and seek requirement clarification. Should be able to map business requirements to technical specifications.
• Use case design, Solution Requirements Specification and mapping business requirements to technical requirements (Traceability Matrix).
• Architecture Design (optimising the resources made available – servers and load sharing etc.).
• Involvement in a successful pursuit of a potential client by being part of the RFP response team.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor or master’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience
• Strong command on verbal and written English language.
• Experience in HTML, JSP and JavaScript.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills.
• 3 - 4 Years relevant Work Experience
• Skills Expertise
• Experience in implementing at least two IAM engagements, including requirements gathering, analysis, design,
• development, testing, deployment, and application support (SailPoint/OIM/CyberArk/Beyond trust/Thycotic).
• Experience in carrying out advanced application integration with the IAM solution dealing with advanced provisioning (e.g., multilevel workflows), single sign-on (WIA, Forms, HTTP), and PKI concepts
• Experience in technologies, such as Java, LDAP, SSL RDBMS, and Linux
• Good knowledge of Web/application servers (IIS, WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, and Apache)
• Experience in development/configuration of standard/custom IAM integrations using Java, .Net, or other major scripting languages
• Experience in hands-on development, estimations, sizing, and custom IAM integrations
• Advanced documentation and presentation skills and well-versed with software development life cycle processes
• Ability to create, plan, and execute advanced IAM trainings and independently drive proof of concepts involving emerging IAM technologies
• Exposure to process frameworks and methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication

Certifications (preferred):

• CyberArk Trustee, CyberArk Defender, CyberArk Sentry
• ITIL or equivalent
• Work Requirements:
• Willingness to travel as required
• Willingness to be on call support engineer and work occasional overtime as required
• Willingness to work in shifts as required

What we look for

• Who has hands on experience in setting up the Identity and Access Management environment in standalone and cluster environment.
• Who has hands-on Development experience on Provisioning Workflows, triggers, Rules and customizing the tool as per the requirements.

You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan. You will quickly grow into a responsible role with challenging and stimulating assignments. Moreover, you will be part of an interdisciplinary environment that emphasizes high quality and knowledge exchange. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Your key responsibilities

The goal is to support our clients to transform their business through product management. As a Product Manager, you will work with multi-discipline feature teams including user experience experts, architects, engineers and others to define and roll out products and services for large global organizations. You will take a user-centric and data-driven approach to product development. You will advocate for the user throughout the product development lifecycle. You can break down and simplify complex processes and touchpoints to deliver exceptional experiences. You are a strategic thinker, can prioritize and define product roadmaps, manage a product backlog, make quick decisions and coordinate the team to release quality products within planned timelines. You understand modern platform structures, cloud architectures, digital platforms and enablers, and data strategy considerations. In addition, you understand and have a perspective on how product and delivery organizations are structured and operate within complex, regulated national and global companies. Outside of client engagements, you have experience with business development activities (e.g. pursuits, proposals) and practice building activities such as mentoring teams and developing/delivering trainings.

Skills and attributes for

• Strategy and Organization
  • Develop product strategies that align with business objectives and account for technology, data and experience design considerations
  • Define product organization and operating models (e.g. product taxonomy, organizational structure, funding methods, product delivery processes, governance models, decision-making models) that help our clients better allocate funding, prioritize work and drive quality and efficient delivery
  • Improve portfolio management with product metrics and OKRs that align work to business objectives and increase transparency/traceability of outcomes
• Technology Delivery
  • Drive technology delivery through defining business requirements (user stories and acceptance criteria), prioritizing backlogs, and creating and maintaining roadmaps
  • Lead cross-functional teams of designers, engineers and testers through the software development lifecycle (SDLC) from ideation through implementation and deployment
  • Advocate and operationalize cross-functional best practices such as user testing, functional and regression test automation and alignment to industry/client standards
• Product Enablement
  • Utilize prevalent product management tools (e.g. JIRA, Azure DevOps, AhA!, Productboard) to ideate and deliver technology solutions
  • Utilize product analytics software and frameworks (e.g, Pendo, amplitude, etc.) to derive insights on user behavior, product performance, and value delivery, translating findings into actionable recommendations
  • Advise on and implement best practices and standards for experience design, agile delivery, technology and data
  • Operationalize leading technologies including generative AI to improve quality and efficiency throughout the SDLC (e.g. user story definition)
• Core Consulting
  • Construct and communicate a compelling story to rally the client around potential changes and associated benefits
  • Own the desired outcomes defined in client engagements and carry through to implementation
  • Manage service delivery, identifying future sales opportunities, and supporting practice development activities.
  • Maintain long-term client relationships and networks and cultivate business development opportunities.
  • Effectively work with client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds fostering an innovative and inclusive work environment.
  • Demonstrate understanding of current technology environment and industry trends and provide recommendations for engagement and client service issues.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Accounting, Finance, or a related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate work experience. Alternatively, will accept a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems Management, Accounting, Finance, or a related field and 4 years of work experience.
• Facilitate discussions with technical, design and business subject-matter resources to document requirements, establish a vision, and articulate alternatives for future state solutions across various domains and channels.
• Has set product vision, defined and managed product roadmaps, prioritized and managed the backlog and has led product launches.
• Can participate in and drive ideation sessions, standups, sprints and scrums.
• Has a specific domain knowledge and understands the dynamics impacting their product such as market trends, technology and regulatory rules.
• Experience with successfully managing projects with defined deliverables and budgets. Experience must include budgeting and managing the schedule; client relationship management; communicating strategically around key issues; conflict resolution and consensus building.
• Must have a thorough understanding of complex information systems and technology organizations and to be able to work effectively between the application, data infrastructure, operations and security architectural spaces
• Proven delivery skills including the ability to scope/size a project; staff a team with the appropriate skill set; provide subject matter direction and guidance to a team; manage communications with the project sponsors and manage the delivery of an engagement workstream.
• Requires domestic and regional travel up to 80% to serve client needs.