Product Manager, Issuer Activation
Vinyl Equity · Chicago, IL · 4 wk ago
HybridMarketing$130k–$207k/yrFull-time
About the role
This position owns Issuer Activation end-to-end — the product experience guiding customers from initial conversation through sandbox demonstration to live deployment. The role bridges pre-sales (demo environments with realistic data) and post-sales activation (contract signature to go-live with self-serve, diagnostic-led experiences).
Key Responsibilities
- Own Issuer Activation roadmap covering demo environments, onboarding, cap-table migration, KYC/KYB intake, data ingestion, sandbox environments, and live orchestration
- Define and ship self-serve migration experiences with full process visibility
- Make Data Ingestion Application diagnostic-first with actionable guidance
- Partner with Operations for product-led implementation experiences
- Collaborate with engineering teams on architecture and data quality
- Represent Issuer Activation in sales conversations with prospective issuers
- Define success metrics: conversion rates, time-to-live, data-quality resolution rates, satisfaction scores
- Produce product specs, decision memos, and customer-facing playbooks
Role Requirements
- 7+ years product management experience; 3+ years in data, migration, or fintech operations
- Direct experience shipping products with complex data ingestion, reconciliation, or migration workflows
- Track record building self-serve, diagnostic-led products
- Strong understanding surfacing data-quality signals as actionable customer guidance
- Technical architecture comfort and cross-functional engineering collaboration
- Sandbox/test environment design experience
- Strong written communication skills
- Distributed international team experience
- Hands-on AI/ML tool experience
Nice to Haves
- Capital markets, transfer agency, broker-dealer operations, or securities settlement exposure
- Data-migration product leadership in fintech, brokerage, banking, or regulated environments
- Cap-table products, equity administration tools, or securities operations platform experience
- KYC/KYB workflow familiarity
- Implementation lead, solutions architect, or operations engineering background
Compensation & Benefits
- Target base salary: $130k-$207k (experience-dependent)
- Equity-based compensation
- Medical, dental & vision insurance
- 401k
- Flexible PTO
- Hybrid schedule (minimum 3 days/week in-office)