Manager, Product Management
Q2 is seeking a Manager of Product Management who will be responsible for developing and managing the roadmap and strategic planning for an industry-changing fintech platform as well as managing the product team members that support the product including but not limited to Product Owners and Business Analysts. You will be working at a company whose mission is to build strong and diverse communities by strengthening their financial intuitions and with FinTech’s and startups who want to bring change and innovation to the financial world. This position will be responsible for becoming an expert on our customers’ needs and managing a set of high-quality solutions that meet business objectives in a flexible, collaborative, and rapidly changing environment. It requires a highly motivated and focused individual capable of communicating, establishing credibility, and driving high performing innovative teams.
If you are the right fit for this position, you approach business opportunities with an unwavering sense of optimism and are passionate about great products. You have a point of view about what makes great digital banking products and can translate that into requirements that deliver solutions to market problems that you identify. You are an energetic and diplomatic leader who can evangelize key strategies and growth. Opportunities requiring broad thinking, including design, financial analysis, workflows, and data analytics are familiar to you and demonstrated success is your norm. You wake up each morning with a passion to solve problems through testing and research, market data, design, and customer feedback and believe that building value is critical to job satisfaction. You are likely an accomplished technologist with a high capacity for building new digital software and solutions. You possess deep experience in Product Management related to enterprise software development best practices.
In addition, you take a client-centric approach to product management and have demonstrated results, driving rapid modifications and initial concepts to new and existing products. Although you will work in the Product group and manage key personnel in your product organization you will also continually work with, build, and influence cross-departmental workgroups with your outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Drive roadmap and product strategy
Lead and manage the back office and analytics product team, product owners and business analysts
Monitor and impact key metrics and efficiencies for product
Provide guidance and mentorship to product team on the product lifecycle
Assist, train and grow employees and evangelize best practices
Proactively identify opportunities for new trends/features/products
Perform research and provide industry expertise to be utilized in product business cases
Engage with product development teams to ensure new feature development meets market expectation
Establish and track business cases and financials
Assess risk of value, feasibility, and usability as key factors to product success
Communicate value and vision effectively-being confident with presentation skills and establishing credibility with an audience
Engage with clients and prospects through Relationship and Sales teams as needed to present and discuss roadmap and strategy
Build effective relationships with others in Product, Sales, and Marketing
Champion end-user experience by actively seek to integrate human interaction best practices and best in class front end design into each feature you build
Work with Product Owners to ensure all security, availability, confidentiality, and privacy policies and controls are adhered to
Work with Product Owners to deliver product acceptance criteria for the development organization you work with to ensure the highest quality and customer experience
Work with the Release Management team to develop and deliver release documentation and training materials for internal groups on key functional aspects of products under your ownership
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:
B.S. or B.A in Business, Marketing, Psychology, Engineering, Communications, or related field
Typically requires 1-2 year’s experience managing and developing employees
Demonstrable previous experience in software product management
Strong team leadership qualities with proven experience building, growing, motivating and mentoring high performance teams
Minimum 8-12 years in product management, financial services or e-commerce is preferred
Equivalent combination of education and experience acceptable
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
Strong teamwork, organization, and problem resolution skills
Excel and data analysis skills
Self-starter with proven ability to deliver results with minimal assistance is a must
At Q2, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce that fosters mutual respect for our employees and the communities we serve. Q2 is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.