Job responsibilities
- Develops a product strategy and product vision that delivers value to customers
- Manages discovery efforts and market research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmap
- Owns, maintains, and develops a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition
- Builds the framework and tracks the product's key success metrics such as cost, feature and functionality, risk posture, and reliability
- Owns a portfolio of value-focused AI/ML initiatives, leading to actionable insights for senior technology leaders to maximize penetration of the total addressable market (TAM)
- Develops defensible business cases and ROI models to prioritize opportunities and optimize financial outcomes
- Conducts market research, data aggregation, and analyses using industry-leading data sets and analytical approaches
- Directs strategic thinking and approach, guiding teams through the most complex aspects of problem-solving
- Crafts clear and coherent narratives, leveraging creative data visualization and compelling storytelling to enable opportunity prioritization, idea convergence, insight operationalization, and stakeholder buy-in
- Influences the strategic agenda by being an objective, data-driven thought partner and advisor to senior leaders
- Directs initiatives, priorities, and demand; mobilize teams with the right mix of skills, experience, and backgrounds for each initiative
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area
- Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analytics
- Proven ability to lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
- Experience with data-driven approaches to growing business revenue leading to higher penetration of total addressable market (TAM)
- Fluency with large data sets, advanced analytical tools and problem-solving approaches as well as the ability to think through abstract issues / problem sets
- Exceptional stakeholder management, influencing and executive-level communication skills
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree level in computer science, math, or engineering discipline or equivalent work experience
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Demonstrated prior experience working in a highly matrixed, complex organization
- Financial services industry experience with expose to the software delivery lifecycle
- MBA and/or advanced business analytics degree from a top-tier program
- 7+ years of experience with a leading management consulting firm focused on strategic data-driven business intelligence efforts