Senior Product Manager to drive strategic technology product initiatives across our application and data platforms. This position will report directly to the Senior Director of Project/Product Management.

Responsibilities

• Act as a critical liaison between investment, business, operations and technology professionals to translate business needs into excellent product solutions with executable roadmaps
• Unique ability to bring together your business and technology expertise to define minimum viable product (MVP) solutions that solve business problems, while delivering early, incremental business value
• Exceptional cross-team collaboration; able to work across different functions, organizations, and reporting boundaries to drive delivery
• Develop business cases for proposed product solutions, including defining scope, solution design/architecture, timeline, cost and resource estimates
• Drive build vs. buy analyses for solution evaluations
• Document product requirements, specifications, and workflows; ability to create visuals of the product solution and how it interconnects and interfaces with the broader technology architecture
• Work hand-in-hand with developers to ensure product roadmaps are achievable and requirements are well-defined to avoid development re-work
• Implement metrics programs to measure platform adoption and effectiveness to truly realize business benefits
• Identify, define, and analyze alternative courses of action and recommend a complete solution to somewhat undefined challenges that require systems thinking to consider implications and interrelationships
• Fully conceptualize and own all aspects of the solution required for successful go-live including data migration, training, usage reporting, etc.
• Partner with the business to re-engineer/optimize business processes, where required, to adopt the new technology capabilities
• Prepare product status reporting for working team as well as executive updates
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks and issues throughout delivery lifecycle working collaboratively across business and technology stakeholders

Qualifications

• College degree, additional degree preferred
• 8+ years’ experience delivering large-scale technology product implementations where you own the product vision and roadmap, collaborate across large cross-functional teams, and unblock issues to land business impact
• Experience in Private Equity / alternative investments, with expertise in technology product areas such as investor portals/onboarding, CRM, portfolio management, fund accounting and data platforms
• Experience with Salesforce, Investran, iLevel, Workday, is a plus
• Experience with Agile methodology, as well as experience with various SDLC Methodologies; Jira expertise strongly preferred
• Ability to break-down business problems and translate into executable product roadmaps with incremental milestones/business benefit along the way
• Capability to translate and rationalize business asks into high-performing product solutions
• Experience establishing metrics to define success and measure outcomes
• Viewed as the go-to expert to translate business problems to technology solutions
• Exceptional level of accuracy and attention to detail; ability to be proactive and solve complex problems
• Pristine written and verbal communication skills – both detailed and at executive summary level
• Excellent time management planning and organization skills
• Strong software delivery and product/project management skills, with proven ability to collaborate effectively across broad set of domains and stakeholder groups
• Proven ability to build consensus and drive issue resolution as a team player in a congenial manner, while keeping to dates and optimal outcomes
• Experience and competency with running multiple product development efforts simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Strong comfort and experience liaising with internal and external shareholders at all levels