Product Manager

Curinos is the leading provider of data, technologies and insights that enable financial institutions to make better, and more profitable, data-driven decisions faster. Born out of the combination of two familiar industry powerhouses, Novantas and Informa’s FBX business, Curinos brings to market a new level of industry expertise across deposits, lending and digital experience solutions and technologies.

Our Product Managers (PMs) are responsible for end-to-end product lifecycles, bringing product features from concept to reality. PMs work closely with Business Owners as well as our full stack Engineering teams, as the conduit in the middle that “speaks both languages”. Taking the high-level strategic direction and industry targets from our Business Owners, PMs are responsible for creating and implementing a roadmap to accomplish these strategic directives. They will drive all steps of the development process, from collaboration with SMEs, to ideating on workflows with the UX team, to specs, designs, and the final build with Engineering and QA colleagues. Our Product Management team is expected to work closely with our users and internal Client Services team to build and maintain expertise in how our clients use these analytic decision support tools to drive intelligent business decisions.

This position will focus on a range of B2B data analytic decision support products supporting financial institutions. While we’d love to grow the team with a PM experienced in the nuances of retail banking, broader industry experience and/or eager and fast learning candidates are encouraged to apply as well.

Our PMs can expect to take on the broad responsibilities of a Product Manager. These include:

• Create and manage the product’s long term strategic roadmap, in consultation with Business Owners and other stakeholders – optimizing for product revenue
• Define future product features, with a tangible understanding of the underlying technologies and datasets
• Lead and track the management and execution of quarterly product OKRs – beginning with setting Objectives in line with the product’s strategic roadmap
• Translate roadmap objectives into future product requirements and development plans, coordinating closely with industry experts, business owners, UX designers, Client Services teams, clients, and more
• Manage the strategic tradeoff between investment across support efficiency initiatives, platforms, tech debt, and new features
• Work closely with Product Marketing and Learning teams on market or user facing materials
• Analyze user data to identify trends and insights that will facilitate product success
• Be the go-to expert for your product
• Our PMs must also be able to execute on, or lead Product Owners to execute on, responsibilities associated with traditional agile Product Owner position, such as:
• Manage, track, and update the highly detailed near-term roadmaps and project plans
• Create detailed requirements documents – from high level BRDs to feature level stories, often requiring solid technical understanding of the underlying data process flows or methodology
• Work with Application, DB, and Big Data engineering teams in every step of development to successfully translate business requirements and specifications into functional products efficiently and quickly
• Understand and advocate for our end client users throughout the development and design process, with a solid understanding of the reasons, and ways, they use our products
• Create / manage product backlogs; participate in agile development ceremonies
• Closely partner with the QA team to provide acceptance criteria on collaborate on release sign-offs

You excel at understanding and communicating complex ideas. You stay on schedule and can handle juggling several different priorities, driving each forward independently. You have a good grasp of future high-level goals and can keep them in mind when determining what to do next. You are a technical thinker and can get in the weeds to understand software technologies to help drive product decisions. It is exceptionally important to you that things be done correctly. You value efficiency and are a proactive fixer. You know it is your responsibility to anticipate challenges and mitigate risks. You evangelize your product and exude enthusiasm during demos. You can talk to business partners or engineers with equal ease. You are an agile enthusiast.

Desired background and skills include:

• 2 years experience in product management or ownership, solutions development, QA management, or client services (experience in retail bank or insurance products or practices is a bonus)
• Strong analytical capabilities including the ability to interpret and explain complex systems and ideas
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A keen eye for data presentation and user experience optimization
• Ability to work independently; demonstrated ability to work in a multi-tasked, fast-paced, and changing environment
• Excellent organizational and time management skills; attention to detail
• Experience with technologies or platforms such as Tableau, Jira, SQL, Databricks, or Python is a plus

Why work at Curinos?

• Competitive benefits, including a range of Financial, Health and Lifestyle benefits to choose from
• Flexible working options, including home working, flexible hours and part time options, depending on the role requirements – please ask!
• Competitive annual leave, floating holidays, volunteering days and a day off for your birthday!
• Learning and development tools to assist with your career development
• Work with industry leading Subject Matter Experts and specialist products
• Regular social events and networking opportunities
• Collaborative, supportive culture, including an active DE&I program
• Employee Assistance Program which provides expert third-party advice on wellbeing, relationships, legal and financial matters, as well as access to counselling services

Applying:

We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't meet all the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have relevant skills or experience, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need!

If you need any adjustments to support your application, such as information in alternative formats, special requirements to access our buildings or adjusted interview formats please contact us at careers@curinos.com and we’ll do everything we can to help.

Inclusivity at Curinos:

We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, Curinos is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics.