VP/AVP Product
About the Role
Our Client is seeking a highly motivated Product Manager to help lead the development of their Distributed Ledger Technology APIs and client system integrations. This individual will be working in a team-oriented environment with smart and hardworking individuals in a results-oriented culture with support from the Executive Management. This is a management level role with room for growth and oversight over teams, projects, and space. This person will have the opportunity to solve fun and complex industry wide problems, spanning across various alternative investment data workflows. This role works directly with end users and clients to bring scale and efficiency spanning across a multitude of different business processes.
This is an opportunity to utilize the latest technologies and innovative solutions. This individual will own, lead, and deliver various solutions with direct oversight of data models, data validation, and data integrations, largely defining and influencing others in your own space, from identifying unmet needs to defining requirements, writing user stories, developing project communication plans, and testing implementations. We live and breathe agile and deploy fast, to learn and iterate quickly. Having fun while doing it is a big part of who we are so the ideal candidate will embrace a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead engagement with end users and clients to identify and deliver solutions to core functional areas and user needs.
- Develop the strategic roadmap and lead the direction of the product data models and APIs in partnership with stakeholders.
- Present, communicate, and work directly with executive management as needed and provide status updates of critical strategic implementations.
- Resolve issues and concerns around the allocation of resources and work with stakeholders to manage expectations and setting of priorities.
- Work with the production support team and provide oversight and work to resolve existing gaps with new builds or proposals for new resources.
- Propose and plan team structure and expansion where necessary with a well thought out plan of execution as the company grows.
- Mentor the team by coaching and leading by example from all aspects of development whether building relationships or project execution.
- Identify the highest leverage areas and mobilize key constituents quickly to deliver great products and critical key API features and functions.
- Develop a strong understanding of business impacts and what is most critical and manage the team and space for concurrent requests and requirements.
- Test and review client integrations and oversee team execution in general and ensure flawless execution.
- Monitor the performance of the APIs and connectivity with clients to continuously improve it through all the life-stages of a product.
- Maintain awareness of the competitive landscape from a business, legal, and compliance perspective.
- Step outside the product realm when appropriate to contribute to the team and overall company mission.
Qualifications
- 5 -10+ years of experience in product management in a fast-paced, agile environment
- Proven track record of management of technical teams and projects
- Excellent management skills for organizing requests and priorities
- Track record of exercising strong influence in partnerships with colleagues, teams, and clients
- Great communicator and comfortable engaging executive management for ideas and resolutions
- Natural problem solver and driven to push initiatives to conclusions
- Critical thinker and comfortable with the unknown
- Financial technology background strongly preferred
- Willingness to dig deep, analyze and know the ins and outs of how things work
- Data analysis experience is required, with an emphasis in SQL and developing API integrations
- Develop an in-depth understanding of organizational data flow and its impact on business processes
- Expertise with QA testing and business analysis and project management
- Strong technical background and understanding; ability to design and implement strategic API functionalities at scale
- Strong interpersonal skills and capable of building relationships to gain buy in and achieve business results
- History of customer centric focus with a knack for quick and thoughtful problem-solving
- Strong interpersonal and presentation skills
- Experience in data engineering and quantitative science is preferred, but not required