Product Manager/Technology

Aquent is partnering with a leading financial services firm dedicated to empowering individuals and institutions through innovative solutions and exceptional service. This organization is at the forefront of leveraging technology to enhance client experiences and operational efficiency. As a vital member of their team, you will have the opportunity to drive significant impact, shaping the future of financial technology and contributing to initiatives that directly benefit clients and associates.

Are you a visionary technologist with a passion for product management, ready to make a tangible difference? We are seeking a dynamic individual to step into a pivotal role, where you will bridge the gap between product strategy and technological execution. This is your chance to lead critical initiatives, influence strategic decisions, and ensure that groundbreaking solutions are delivered seamlessly. You will be instrumental in optimizing processes, enhancing product offerings, and driving innovation within a fast-paced and collaborative environment, directly impacting how our client serves its vast customer base.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the primary contact for product and IT partners to ensure that resource demand is well documented along with cross domain dependencies as known, understanding roadmaps and prioritization.
• Actively manage readiness backlog; bridging intake and triage with time commitments and readiness to ensure continued cadence and focus, in alignment with workforce forecasting and planning.
• Actively manage logistics of internal release board, ensuring a focus on outstanding product deliverables, carryover commitments and identifying associate/client impactful releases and internal communication needs.
• Actively manage intake backlog ensuring timely assignment and understanding of the time commitments requested and key drivers. Assist in tactical prioritization in partnership with Product and Tech leaders.
• Coordinate cadence and follow up on cross-team, large time-sensitive defects, and team-specific warranty issues as applicable, with focus on key project showstoppers, helping to assess priority and understanding of client or associate impact.
• Responsible for department focused roll up reporting and communication on key metrics pertaining to pipeline and priority items.
• Tracking production release of all committed work.
• Maintenance of Product Catalog documentation.
• Assist in domain rollout.
• Assembly of opportunities and focus items for tactical improvements.
• Provide thought-leadership on demand needs and insight on process improvement.
• Facilitate and drive issues resolution and retrospectives between stakeholders.
• Understand both business and technical dependencies between business areas and within systems that support or may be impacted by middle office functionality; upstream as well as downstream.
• Develop 'As Is' knowledge of platform systems and 'To Be' system solutions and flows.
• Assist in handling complex, high-profile projects (across multiple domains, systems and stakeholders).
• Adapt to changing priorities and managing of multiple tasks.

What You'll Bring

• Strong critical thinking skills.
• Proven ability to build a strong partnership and trust with stakeholders.
• Strategic mindset to help drive product management decisions, governance, and long-term vision.
• Risk and issues management for domain level risks and interdependencies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - ability to quickly analyze data to identify key insights and apply them to the business, quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Confidence in presenting both strategic and tactical vision to the team and management for both big-picture planning and day-to-day management of project goals.
• Understanding of cross-functional dependencies and how they impact project execution.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational and negotiation skills.
• Product and project management skills; business judgment, including ability to balance resources need, evaluate and address risks, and concisely articulate trade-off decisions.
• Strong orientation to clients, including ability to understand needs and apply this knowledge to product enhancements, online user experience, and communication content (internal and external).
• Ability to analyze and communicate technology recommendations to business stakeholders.
• 5-to-10 years' experience managing requirements for multiple large, complex and cross functional projects. Emphasis on systems, technologies, business process redesign, and knowledge of technical environments.
• Proven ability to write business requirements, including user stories, use case development and workflow documentation.
• High attention to detail and the ability to see things through from concept to implementation.
• Competence in Microsoft Office tools including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent business experience.

Even Better If You Have

• 7-10 years' experience in software development methodology (Agile Framework).
• Securities Industry/Operational background, with a focus on account open solutions.
• Prior working knowledge of JIRA or any related Scrum tools.

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