Job responsibilities
- Directs principal activities across the end-to-end product delivery journey including intake, dependency management, release management, product operationalization, delivery feasibility decision-making, and product performance reporting, while highlighting opportunities to improve efficiencies and functional coordination
- Owns the change management framework across functional partners and ensures adherence to the firm’s risk, controls, compliance, and regulatory requirements
- Maintains a high level of visibility over product timelines and dependencies while monitoring blockers, ensuring adequate resourcing, and liaising with stakeholders and functional partners
- Coaches and mentors the product engineering team on best practices through collaborative discussions on resource management, dependency management, and deployment techniques to improve efficiencies
- Navigates demand management and crafts product delivery plan
- Negotiates with Product Owners, balancing their asks with feasibility, priority, dependencies, and technical debt
- Enforces and participates in robust documentation
- Works with engineers to explain requirements and answer questions; drives requirements and ideation as the functional subject matter expert; breakdowns requirements into tasks and create Jiras
- Crafts a testing plan for each release, participate in the testing activities; enforces testing from upstream partners as part of the Definition of Ready
- Owns the Snow process, deployment coordination and authorization
- Releases notes and education to all stakeholders as the “Voice” of the Feature Team
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 8+ years of experience or equivalent expertise delivering products, projects, or technology applications
- Extensive experience leading operational management and change readiness
- Experience in enterprise-wide release and deployment processes and strategies
- Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, and data analytics
- Strong Agile, Lean and Design Thinking and rapid prototyping skills
- Technical expertise in BigData, reporting, analytics and AI space
- Hands-on experience with data tools such as: SQL, Python, BI
- Familiarity with relevant technologies such as: Databricks and AWS
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to craft polished presentations, articulate key messages to senior management and stakeholders, including contract commercial terms, commitments, and derived value
- Expert problem-solving and analytical skills
- Previous leadership experience of a Product Management team or organization
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Recognized thought leader within a related field
- Graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Technical, Technology, Mathematics, Marketing, Economics, or Science
- Experience in Payments or Fintech industry
- Proven track record of building products that users enjoy