Senior Product Specialist
About Octus
Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets.
About the Role
We are seeking a Director, Project Management & Product Specialist to lead the delivery, execution, and operating model for Sky Road, Octus' state-of-the-art enterprise software platform for credit management professionals. This is a role responsible for scaling delivery excellence across product, engineering, client onboarding, and commercial stakeholders. The Director will work closely with Sky Road management to set the vision, structure, and governance for how Sky Road is delivered, while still maintaining hands-on partnership with teams and clients to ensure outcomes.
This role blends enterprise project management leadership, product specialist expertise, agile transformation, and executive stakeholder management, and will serve as a trusted partner to Sky Road leadership. The Director will ensure roadmap initiatives, client delivery commitments, and platform evolution are executed with consistency, transparency, and speed.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery, execution, and operating model for Sky Road
- Scale delivery excellence across product, engineering, client onboarding, and commercial stakeholders
- Work closely with Sky Road management to set the vision, structure, and governance for Sky Road delivery
- Maintain hands-on partnership with teams and clients to ensure outcomes
- Ensure roadmap initiatives, client delivery commitments, and platform evolution are executed with consistency, transparency, and speed
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in project management, delivery leadership, or agile transformation roles
- Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional software or data platform initiatives
- Strong executive presence with the ability to influence and drive alignment
- Deep understanding of agile, Scrum, and scaled delivery models
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and organizational skills
- Experience building and scaling delivery operating models
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in SaaS, fintech, or data-driven enterprise platforms
- Experience leading distributed or global teams
- Strong partnership with product and engineering leadership
- Undergraduate degree
- Experience with CLO analytics especially optimization and trading related tools for leverage loan strategies
- Experience as a Product Specialist for an analytical software platform
Benefits
- Competitive health benefits
- Matched 401k and pension plans
- PTO
- Generous parental leave
- Gym subsidies
- Educational reimbursements for career development
- Recognition programs
Pay
The salary range estimate for this position is $150,000 - $175,000. Compensation decisions consider experience, skills, location, and business needs and limitations.