VP of Product

Overview

The Company:

Preqin is an award-winning, independent, technology and data company providing tools and insights to the alternative assets industry. Investment professionals working in alternative assets use Preqin’s online products to obtain key information for business-critical decision-making. Preqin’s clients include fund managers, legal firms, institutional investors, financial advisors and placement agents.

Primarily a data company; Preqin is also a fast-moving fintech with a strong growth record and a world-wide staff base.  Owned by our founder, directors and employee shareholders, we care passionately about our customers, brand and the employees that make it all happen.

Team Overview:

A core part of Preqin’s growth plan is to continue to build out and develop our market leading data platform which serves the alternative assets market. Our LP Business unit serves our Limited Partner customers, and is an area with significant growth potential for the company. You’ll be joining at an exciting time when the strategy is still being formed, and there are numerous ways to make an impact for our business and our clients.

Role Overview:

As VP of Product you will be responsible for leading product development within our Limited Partner (LP) Business Unit, focused on supporting one of our major customer groups and a key growth area for the business. You will report into the Head of Product and work closely with your Business Unit head, playing a leading role in a cross-functional team building industry leading products for our LP customers.

You’ll lead a team of Product Managers, and work closely with teammates in our engineering and design teams, global research teams, customer success and sales teams to determine the strategic direction and operational delivery of the company’s products.

Responsibilities

What you’ll do:

• Drive the product vision and strategy for your area, working closely with the business lead and a cross-functional team to identify how to chase our strategic goals.
• Talk to customers and understand what they care about. Find the most effective ways to work out how we help them.
• Identify and track the right metrics for your area and your customers, and use those metrics to make our products better.
• Work closely and collaboratively with a team of engineers and designers – you’ll get everyone aligned around a problem, work together on out how to solve it, and then execute effectively.
• Get product to customers, understand the impact you’ve had, and learn from it and iterate.
• Develop yourself and our Product team – share what you’ve learned, and work with the people around you to find ways to do things better.

Qualifications

Who you are:

• You care about customers deeply – you’re obsessed with finding out what their problems are, and how we are going to solve them.
• You have a commercial mindset, and are able to apply a great understanding of customers, the market and our products to identifying where the biggest opportunities are.
• You’re a great executor, with a track record of getting product to customers quickly and iteratively.
• You’re evidence based, using data, customer feedback and market insight to help us to build industry leading products.
• You’re honest, self-aware and evidence based on how you and your team are doing, and continuously look for ways to improve.
• You act like an owner – you take responsibility for problems, and if you see something wrong, you make it better.

Other

Company Benefits:

• Access to Preqin Perks, our rewards, recognition and discount platform after 1 month.
• Subsidised Private Medical Insurance via Vitality Health, after successful completion of probation.
• Interest-free season ticket loans on completion of probation (which is normally 3 months).
• A pension plan under auto-enrolment which currently requires a minimum employee contribution of 5% of annual salary. This is matched by an employer contribution of 4%.  You can opt to contribute more should you wish to. After your 1-year service with the company the employer contribution will be enhanced to match your contribution up to a maximum of 10% of your pensionable earnings. This means that if you are contributing the minimum contribution of 5%, after your 1-year service, Preqin will automatically uplift the company contribution to 5% of annual salary.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• The company operates an employee share scheme with an annual allocation to those with over 1-year service at the time of allocation.
• Study support of up to £900 per annum for relevant business qualifications and enhanced support of up to $2,500 for CAIA.
• City of London Office with complimentary on-site fitness facilities (gym, fitness classes and swimming pool).
• Company-sponsored sports teams.
• Fruit baskets in the office twice a week.
• Winter and summer office parties and a company-funded team social budget.

Our Company Values:

At Preqin we’re driven by our values: everything we do is in line with the six guiding principles we have set for ourselves.

• Quality Data and Solutions, Comprehensive Coverage: Preqin is the first port of call for alternatives data, research and tools. 
• Customer Centricity: Our customers are the central focus of Preqin. 
• Objectivity: Preqin is data led and impartial. 
• Innovation: Preqin sits at the forefront of the dynamic alternatives industry.
• Collaboration: Effective communication is essential to our success. 
• Personal Development: Our business is built as much on our people as it is on our data and solutions.

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Our Shared Culture:

Preqin is a fast-growing company, but we are passionate about keeping an entrepreneurial spirit at the heart of everything we do. Our aim is to deliver for our customers, but as one united, progressive, and successful team. Today, our more than 700 people globally share six core values. We strive for quality and put our customers first. We are objective, and we innovate, collaborate, and invest in our personal development. We also have fun together. We hold social events, play sports, and celebrate our shared successes. 

Equal Opportunities:

Preqin is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is at the heart of our business. It is the policy of Preqin to ensure equal employment and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Preqin is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, so everyone has the opportunity to be successful.  If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please let the Preqin recruiter know at the start of the application process. Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process.