Product Manager

About the role

The Product Manager plays a critical role in the growth and success of the Xactus Product Team and in enabling Xactus to achieve its objectives and core values, while optimizing for the end-to-end customer journey.

Responsibilities

• Independently brings fresh ideas, innovation, and strategy to the Xactus product backlog.
• Ensure the teams backlogs reflect an improved and innovative customer experience.
• Partner with VP, Product to drive the successful delivery of strategic initiatives by ensuring clear communications and alignment throughout the development lifecycle in an environment of rapid feedback and continuous adaptation while monitoring and maintaining alignment with strategic objectives.
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise for development and test teams (communicating business value, removing blockers, adding details), business analysts, strategy team, and business stakeholders (explaining technical options and approaches, solution pros/cons).
• Serve as the “voice of the customer,” representing users and sponsor interests, building cohesion and leading working groups, aligning with technical best practices, enhancing strategic data capture, and improving the user experience.
• Partner with Product VP to Identify and highlight cross-functional impacts of development delivery – opportunities for secondary team benefits and downstream and/or unintended impacts or risks to be mitigated.
• Ensure Data and Analytics strategy is folded into all aspects of delivery: incorporation of data strategy into all requirements to enable the collection and aggregation of data from various sources and measurement.
• Lead internal and stakeholder meetings (e.g., Refinement, Demos) and drive collaboration between teams and planning functions to improve delivery velocity and quality of products.
• Create epic outlines and timelines, monitor and communicate progress, break down high-level Epics and broad requirements into more detailed user stories, and distribute responsibilities across team members and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of successful product manager experience, preferably in a SaaS environment and/or in the financial services/fintech industry.
• Experience in Agile Scrum/Agile Development Methodology with a focus on supporting daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives and consistently improving maturity in agile practices preferred, but not required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong presentation and leadership skills.
• Self-starter who understands how to effectively deal with ambiguity and with changing priorities.
• Strong analytic skills required, including the ability to interpret customer needs into application and operational requirements.
• Great team player – must have the ability to deal with conflicts, manage negotiations, provide feedback and drive needed change management practices with the objective of achieving the required outcomes.