Product Manager (Financial Services - Asset Management)
Publicis Sapient
- Los Angeles, CA
- $98,000-147,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Partner with client(s), strategists, experience leads, and architects to frame business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience
- Develop product vision, strategy, market/user research, by keeping the customer at the center of everything we do while using design thinking tools
- Represent client in ideation workshops with cross-functional leaders where you identify new ideas, customer needs, pain points, and solution options
- Develop solution hypotheses iteratively, based on user research, and industry and market trend analysis
- Establish customer journey mapping to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing
- Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined, prioritized features that will realize the product vision and value
- Validate and present the business case to the C–level executives and lead business reviews to ensure the team prioritizes the right features
- Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding the customer needs
- Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes
- Masterfully apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks
- Collaborate with product owners, solution managers, and cross-functional product managers, to ensure alignment towards the same program increment (PI) objectives
- Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritize system enablers
- Represent industry best practice and market trends to assist the client in maintaining competitive advantage
- Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop influence without authority
- Inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services
- Deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles that maximize flow of value with a passion to extend this understanding throughout the organization
- Demonstrated success creating digital products vision, strategy, experience, and enterprise solutions and services - from ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality
- Demonstrate understanding of client’s objectives, market and competitive direction and be able to make product recommendations that maximize the value generation
- Deep financial services industry experience across one or more of the following areas:
- Transaction Banking – Cash Management / Liquidity Management, Payments and Cards, Commercial and Syndicated Lending, Trade and Supply Finance, Treasury Management, Forex Services
- Commercial Lending, Trade Finance, Payments/cash Management and Cards, Forex Services
- Asset Management – Portfolio Management, Trading, Confirmation & Settlement, Client & Regulatory Reporting, Results & Attribution
- Wealth Management – Lead Generation & Prospecting, Client Onboarding, Trading, SMA/UMA, Client and Advisor Experience, Accounting & Billing
- Risk Management – Credit Risk, Market Risk, Financial Crime Risk (Anti-Money Laundering, Know Your Customer etc.), Risk Analytics
- ESG market and datasets, and ESG data consolidation and integration into investment end-to-end workflows
- Familiarity with database, visualization, and data science tools e.g. SQL, Python, APIs
- Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services
- Proven ability in collaborating and leading Program Increment (PI) cycles
- Proven ability to prioritize multiple demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
- Practice in workshop facilitation to cultivate the ideation
- Ability to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts, with success leveraging data to make decisions about product feature increments
- Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value
- Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviors
- Influencer in continuous learning and innovation
- Financial Services Industry certifications such as CFA, FRM
- Asset Management experience
- Understand Financial products
- SQL
- Jira/Confluence
- Python
- Fixed Income Experience
- Blackrock Aladdin, CRD
- Bloomberg experience
- Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
- Certified Agile Product Manager designation