Job responsibilities
- Partners with the Product Manager to identify new product opportunities that reflect the needs of our customers and the market through user research and discovery
- Considers and plans for upstream and downstream implications of new product features on the overall product experience
- Supports the collection of user research, journey mapping, and market analysis to inform the strategic product roadmap and provide insight on potential product features that provide value to customers
- Analyzes, tracks, and evaluates product metrics including work to time, cost, and quality targets across the product development life cycle
- Writes the requirements, epics, and user stories to support product development
- Develop strong understanding of business roadmap, functional requirements, technical requirements, and end-state customer experience
- Support the discovery, evaluation, negotiation and curation of third-party partnerships to accelerate execution of CB commercial strategy
- Onboarding/implementation of partners and ongoing relationship management, in coordination with product owners
- Design and execute proof of concept projects, including determining success criteria, to test partner solutions with CB clients
- Analyze market trends to discover leading platforms aligning with our product needs and/or potential investment opportunities
- Conduct in-depth quantitative analysis of deal synergies and impacts; leverage, build, and iterate on financial models and business cases to optimize outcomes
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 3+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area
- Proficient knowledge of the product development life cycle
- Experience in product life cycle activities including discovery and requirements definition
- Developing knowledge of data analytics and data literacy
- Ability to foster strong relationships with organizational partners and senior stakeholders across product, sales, operations, and technology teams
- Strength in cultivating connections within the Fintech ecosystem to inform research and identify emerging opportunities
- Analytical approach to problem solving, able to assess competitive landscape, recognize patterns and evolving opportunities, and offer creative solutions
- Experience in creating business cases and assessing revenue opportunities, risks (including implementation challenges), and mitigants to those risks
- Exceptional financial analysis ability; capable of translating abstract, high-level concepts into tangible and actionable project plans
- Proactive and capable of working independently with a strong drive to deliver results
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- At least 4+ years of industry experience, preferably in growth or product strategy, treasury & payments, corporate strategy, consulting or investment banking
- Experience in business development lifecycle and partnerships management from sourcing to contracting and commercialization
- Ability to engage with external Fintech companies and other ecosystem participants, and to develop an understanding of commercial clients and their evolving needs