Product Manager Consultant - Debt Platform Modernization

Stakeholder Discovery & Requirements Elicitation

• Lead workshops and working sessions with business stakeholders, SMEs, external partners, and delivery teams.
• Document current-state and future-state business processes, decision points, dependencies, and operational workflows.
• Facilitate alignment across stakeholders and drive timely resolution of requirement gaps and open questions.

Product Planning & Backlog Management

• Partner with product leadership to translate business objectives and program priorities into a prioritized product roadmap and backlog.
• Manage feature sequencing, dependencies, release scope, and sprint readiness.
• Ensure epics, features, and user stories remain refined and ready for development and testing.

Business Process & Requirements Definition

• Define end-to-end business workflows, business rules, data requirements, exception handling processes, and integration touchpoints.
• Create and maintain epics, features, user stories, process maps, and acceptance criteria.
• Translate business needs into implementation-ready requirements that can be effectively executed by engineering and quality teams.

Product Delivery & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with developers, architects, QA engineers, business analysts, Finance, Operations, and third-party partners throughout the product lifecycle.
• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, implementation reviews, release preparation, and product demonstrations.
• Resolve functional questions and provide ongoing business context to delivery teams.

Testing, Validation & Product Acceptance

• Partner with QA teams to review test strategies, test scenarios, and traceability against acceptance criteria.
• Support defect triage, clarify expected business behavior, and coordinate user acceptance validation.
• Evaluate completed functionality and recommend readiness for business acceptance and production deployment.

User Experience & Process Design

• Collaborate with business users and design teams to create and review workflow diagrams, wireframes, and prototypes using Figma.
• Ensure solutions deliver intuitive, efficient, and well-controlled user experiences for both internal and external users.

Debt Markets & Domain Expertise

• Build and apply knowledge of debt issuance, securities settlement, trade lifecycle processes, and related operational workflows.
• Leverage business and market insights to identify process improvements, challenge assumptions, and support informed product decisions.

Expected Deliverables

• Current-state and future-state business process documentation
• Epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Business rules, workflow diagrams, and process maps
• Wireframes and prototype reviews
• Product backlog management and prioritization artifacts
• Product review presentations and stakeholder feedback documentation
• Requirements traceability and decision logs
• Ongoing support for implementation, testing, and product acceptance activities