As a Senior Product Associate in
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 campaigns across the product development life cycle.
- Writes the requirements, epics, and user stories to support product development.
- Partners with product owners and developers to deliver user stories, to define acceptance criteria, perform detailed requirements gather and field-level data analysis.
- Support audit related activities both internal and external by providing data analysis and responding to inquiries.
- Identify areas for automated regression testing. Assess system performance (both business logic and user experience) to review that functionality is as intended.
- Review planned releases to recommend acceptable integration with existing components.
- Create and maintain technical content for support and end user consumption. Document and support release activity following the change release process.
- Collaborate on production/business defects with deep dive analysis, synthesizing large amounts of data from various data sources into actionable insights, proposing solutions.
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
- Advanced knowledge of business processes and data analysis, as well as the ability to construct complex data queries and collaborate with colleagues.
- Technical experience with developing REST Service specifications using Swagger, creating Avro schemas for Kafka messages, understanding SQL and no-SQL schema design principles.
- Expert knowledge in all business processes across an entire line of business, as well expertise in other lines of business and technology disciplines . Ability to liaison between lines of business and development teams, translating strategic plans of the future into technology solutions, and vice versa.
- Understanding of business needs, including how data is used and managed, and functional design.
- Experience working with high-performing teams in complex program execution, Experience with documenting issues and creating stories in Jira.
- Good understanding of Waterfall and Agile methods; stakeholder management; budget management, risk management and operations
- Ability to create and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders throughout the firm. Ability to create and communicate flow diagrams. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
- Experience with SQL query writing and understanding Relational Database concepts.