Product Manager - Financial Services

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We are seeking an experienced, entrepreneurial product manager to help bring disruptive cognitive computing experiences to the Financial market, in a high energy, early stage startup environment. CognitiveScale is a high-energy, high-growth company funded by entities such as IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Norwest. We are seeking an enterprising individual to join our growing team as a Product Manager for Financial Services. This person is excited to dig into the weeds to learn about our technology, and possesses the expert skills needed to translate market needs into value. He or she will partner with customers, sales, engineering, and other stakeholders to help define and manage a next generation of financial solutions. As one of the first members of the team, you will be bringing your wealth of financial services experience and work closely with the Chief Product Officer to lay the foundation for the product management function at Cognitive Scale. This is rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor of what will become an industry changing technology force.

 

Responsibilities Include:

  • Partnering with engineering, design, customers, and stakeholders to define business needs, requirements, and feature roadmaps for cognitive commerce products
  • Building business cases for investing in products and features
  • Being a product champion by analyzing external market trends, competition, opportunities that impact the user and capabilities of the platform
  • Authoring requirements, use cases, and stories, and work closely with engineering during execution to ensure the product is built as envisioned
  • Working closely with UX designers define the interaction experience for end-users
  • Driving the cadence and process of prioritizing features, releases, and roadmap
  • Educating and training internal stakeholders on the product
  • Communicating product roadmap and changes to stakeholders
  • Partnering with outbound marketing to communicate changes to customers
  • Defining metrics by which the product’s performance is evaluated
  • Defining performance and hypothesis testing strategies for the product

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of product management experience, minimum 2+ years of that in financial services industry.
  • Strong technology and business acumen
  • BBA/BS required, Engineering background and MBA preferred
  • 2+ years experience bringing entirely new products to market
  • Experience with software as a service and/or cloud based solutions
  • Strong appetite for emerging technology and risk
  • Highly self-motivated with an appetite for a startup environment that is evolving rapidly
  • Strong ability to understand complex solutions and technology
  • Strong ability to collaborate in a UX design process
  • Superior ability to evaluate, prioritize, and communicate requirements and feature roadmaps
  • Demonstrated understanding of product lifecycle management, whole product strategies, and go-to-market strategies
  • Superior communication skills, specifically when communicating complex technical concepts to a non technical audience
  • Strong project management skills and self discipline for leading teams to execute with high quality
  • Strong analytical and decision making abilities

 

 

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9500 Arboretum Blvd. Suite L1, Austin, TX 78759

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