Job Details
We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to shepherd our financial industry client's key information discovery platforms into the age of AI. This role will apply cutting-edge technology to transform finacial regulators' navigation of and interaction with an immense data ecosystem to drive better and faster regulatory decisions.
Major Purpose:
The Lead Product Manager owns the vision and strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for Enterprise Search and Person & Org 360 products. Responsibilities include defining the product outcomes and roadmap for AI-enabled product evolution as well as planning and managing products and product features through the product development process. This role manages the product backlogs for a group of information discovery products while prioritizing work and making product-related decisions based on the needs and expectations of users and stakeholders.
Essential Job Functions:
Product Portfolio Management
- Defines product(s) vision, strategy, and roadmap
- Develops deep understanding of users' information discovery needs to identify gaps in product functionality
- Conducts data analysis and performs experiments to measure product success, understand user needs, and uncover additional value
- Makes trade-off decisions for multiple products in a product group
- Proactively builds partnerships with relevant stakeholders and c oordinates with interdependent teams to drive efficiencies
Product Planning & Prioritization
- Leads the product planning process by managing the development of intake and requirements documents
- Maintains a prioritized backlog based on defined user value, aligning with established product strategy and resource capacity; uses data and analytics to prioritize the product backlog appropriately
- Works closely with UI/UX to set the direction for the design of the user experience for information discovery tools
- Proactively identifies and solves risks and issues uncovered through the planning process, escalating to leadership when necessary
Product Development
- Provides UX/UI approval and validation of acceptance criteria for the assigned products
- Tracks the development work and proactively drives resolution of escalated issues and bugs
- Coordinates development, integration, and testing across interdependent product and technical teams
Launch
- Leads large and sometimes highly complex product launches by working with relevant stakeholders to develop and implement launch plans .
- Identifies, reviews, and resolves issues and blockers that may delay the launch or impede the success of product(s)
- Develops product documentation and training materials for users in support of product launches
- Tracks and reports on product launch metrics, utilizing feedback to drive improvements and iteration
Operate
- Works with internal and external teams and users to identify, classify, and resolve user issues
- Represents team in product discussions with stakeholders
Team Development & Continuous Improvement
- Provides coaching and guidance to more junior-level product management team members
- Works with cross-functional leaders and experts to establish best practices and identify opportunities to improve the product development and delivery process
Other Responsibilities: Additional responsibilities as assigned.
Education & Experience Requirements: Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
- 5 years of experience in product and/or experience management
- Experience building data and analytics to inform product strategy and decisions
- Experience with building full-text Search solutions, such as: Elastic Search, semantic search, and retrieval augmented generation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for a wide variety of audiences
- Experience working cross-functionally in a large organization
- Experience working closely with senior leadership
- Experience with Agile software development
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Business Administration or similar advanced degree
- Experience utilizing AI for information retrieval
- Experience with internal-facing and enterprise-wide product management
- Strong financial acumen
- Experience building business intelligence solutions and/or data lakes
Working Conditions: - Work performed in an office environment.
- Extended hours may be required.
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