Senior Digital Product Manager

Aquent, a leading talent solutions partner, is excited to connect you with an exceptional opportunity at a premier financial services firm. This organization stands as an industry leader, dedicated to empowering independent advisory firms with cutting-edge custody, trading, technology, and practice management services. With a focus on innovation and client success, this firm manages trillions in assets, serving a vast network of advisory businesses and their clients. Joining this team means contributing to a dynamic environment where your work directly impacts thousands of institutional clients, third-party vendors, and internal business units, ensuring the timely, accurate, and high-quality delivery of critical financial data.

About the Role

Step into a pivotal role where you will spearhead the evolution of a next-generation data delivery platform. This is a chance to make a profound impact, driving the design and development of highly scalable solutions that will meet the ever-growing demand for critical account data. You will be instrumental in enabling cloud-based data delivery, significantly improving data availability, and accelerating the time-to-market for new and evolving data needs. Your leadership will directly shape the future of how data is accessed and utilized, enhancing the experience for countless partners and clients.

What You’ll Do

• Envision the future and build the near-term roadmap for the next generation data delivery platform.
• Own and drive all aspects required to bring new data delivery capabilities to partners.
• Serve clients by designing and delivering self-service data customizations and ad-hoc reporting capabilities.
• Collaborate with technology, relationship managers, integration teams, and others in delivering value to clients.
• Lead the product development of the Data Delivery Platform and its utilization across client-facing and internal channels.
• Formulate and evolve the platform experience vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Build strong partnerships with important team members and third parties.
• Champion Agile methodologies, supporting team members in their roles in daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, backlog prioritization, user story preparation, and demos.
• Work cross-functionally with technical, design, business, and compliance counterparts to define product release requirements and investigate production issues as they arise.
• Create and maintain key performance metrics to drive the platform to a performant, scalable future state.
• Create awareness and engagement for the platform and provide relevant and concise updates to management teams.
• Act as the platform subject matter specialist and evangelist to partners.
• Think “horizontally” for cross-enterprise integration opportunities that would deliver an exceptional experience.

Qualifications

Must-Have Qualifications

• Strategic problem solver who can formulate compelling vision and strategy and translate that to meaningful roadmaps and results.
• Solid understanding and experience developing digital platforms, coupled with knowledge of the underlying technology, both current and emerging.
• Strong ability to translate technology to business partners.
• Highly organized, outstanding attention to detail, and ability to set and manage to deadlines.
• Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as the ability to develop concise and effective communications tailored to specific audiences.
• Experienced knowledge with Microsoft Office Products, specifically PowerPoint and Excel; ability to “tell a story” using PowerPoint.
• Skilled at working cross-functionally with technology, service, marketing, and product teams to lead the entire lifecycle of a digital platform.
• Prior experience as an Agile Product Owner or leading scrum teams with a deep understanding of agile.
• Curiosity, positivity, and ability to learn quickly, adapt, and thrive in a complex, multifaceted environment.
• Self-starter with outstanding organizational skills and ability to track multiple project results.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5+ years product management experience.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Good understanding and/or experience in the financial services industry.
• MBA or Master of Science preferred.