Product Manager

Product Manager

The company is a fast-paced FinTech startup that is reshaping the way trillions of dollars of assets are invested globally. Founded and backed by a large hedge fund, this company operates at the intersection of data-science, technology and finance. Our product focuses on enabling institutional investors and wealth managers to take advantage of powerful quantitative insights and cutting edge technology to make smarter investment decisions. We work with some of the world's largest and most respected investors and wealth managers and are on a course to build the investment operating system of the future, powering professional investors and wealth managers worldwide.

We’re looking for a talented product manager to accelerate our customer understanding, help define our direction, and deliver impactful solutions. We are customer-obsessed, engineering-driven, and deeply analytical - if you are too, we’d love to meet you!

You will take on the following responsibilities:

• Interacting with clients to understand their needs, and communicating your insights back to your team.
• Analyzing product performance and user behavior to understand what’s working, identify what’s not, and suggest ways we can improve.
• Clarifying the “Why” behind potential initiatives, and working with engineers, designers, quantitative researchers, and business partners to define features that meet user and business goals.
• Partnering with engineers, designers, and QA to explore, iterate, and release solutions with agility and at high quality.
• Collaborating with marketing, client solutions, and other partner teams to successfully launch your features.
• Prioritizing and setting the company's roadmap.

You possess the following qualifications:

• Experience: You have a BS/BA degree with 7+ years of professional experience, 5+ years as a product manager having worked directly with engineers and designers, and have managed 2+ software development projects from ideation through post-release support.
• Quantitative thinking: You think in distributions, decompositions, and correlations and are clearly able to communicate in these terms.
• User-centric mindset: You are great at empathizing with individual users, but also at stepping back to think about what will be best for the whole user base - now and in the future.
• Organization: You know where you want things to go, and you stay on top of the details to make sure you and your team get there.
• Creativity: You come up with simple, effective solutions to complicated problems. You can do this for UX/UI issues, data issues, and process issues.
• Collaborative nature: You are an excellent partner for your engineering and design teammates, and also have a history of building strong relationships outside of your team with technical and non-technical stakeholders. You are polished in B2B customer interactions.

Required Skills: Project Management

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This is a high PRIORITY requisition.