Product Manager

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Drive and socialize overall Market Understanding including market analysis and industry research.
• Evaluate competitive landscape and utilize understanding of competitors to identify and articulate high-potential opportunities.
• Conduct market validation through review and testing of concepts with existing and prospective customers (voice of customer, customer advisory).
• Help lead and manage mortgage products, aligning them with FHFA announcements around adding new scores and optional 2 bureau credit files.
• Assess opportunities for, and own development of, strategic partnerships.
• Define product requirements considering market needs, build, buy, partner approaches.
• Facilitate development of commercial model and packaging discussions.
• Understand and communicate the product vision.
• Support development of business cases and define product roadmap used in product strategy and planning sessions.
• Track attainment of objectives through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Provide descriptions and write requirements definition for product development.
• Prepare for and support product release.
• Contribute to prioritization of opportunities & product trade-offs.
• Consistently deliver projects on time and against key metrics, despite obstacles or uncertainty.
• Track, monitor and ensure effective performance of the product including attainment of revenue and margin objectives.
• Manage product offerings to ensure new capabilities meet customer/market needs.
• Collect, analyze and interpret data to reach conclusions and/or present insights and findings to drive product lifecycle management decisions including enhancements and sunsetting.
• Partner with internal stakeholders (i.e., D&A, Sales, etc.) throughout the product life cycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline strongly preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 5-7 years of product management or business analyst experience working in a product-led organization within Technology, Financial Services or Data & Analytics.
• Demonstrated working experience using Agile methodologies and/or project management methodologies.
• Experience writing detailed product requirements and understanding what is being built, for whom, why it is important, and how it solves problems (ROI).
• Demonstrated ability to organize and coordinate efforts in a highly matrixed environment.
• Understanding of delivering cloud-based products and services strongly preferred.
• Experience with product tools (Aha, JIRA, Figma).
• Experience demonstrating Design Thinking for innovation is a plus (use of personas, empathy mapping, prototyping, iteration).

Nice to Have

• Previous experience in Mortgage or Housing products.