Product Manager
About our client
Our client builds and delivers easy to use AI products to the secured lending and consumer industry sectors. In an ever-crowded world of clever technology solutions looking for a problem to solve, their solutions start with a keen understanding of what creates and what destroys value in clients' businesses.
The leadership is deeply rooted in leveraging disruptive technology to drive profitable business growth. With over 50 years of combined experience in technology-enabled change, the leadership is focused on building a values-first firm that will stand the test of time.
They are currently focussed on developing a product, to revolutionise loan origination for secured lending covering mortgages, motor and business lending. The product leverages the latest AI techniques to process loan application and loan documents to deliver improved customer and colleague experience, while improving productivity and throughput and reducing processing costs.
The product is currently deployed at a number of lenders in the UK and at early stages of deployment at lenders in the US.
About the role
This is a hybrid role, in London with 3 days in the office and 2 days at home. They are looking for a Business Consultant/ Product Owner, who has the aspirations and appetite for working in a growing environment, and with relevant industry experience to make a significant contribution to their platform and solutions.
Responsibilities
- Translate business strategy and customer needs into a clear product roadmap.
- Define and communicate the product vision to internal teams and stakeholders.
- Conduct market research and competitor analysis to identify opportunities.
- Interact with business users, clients, SMEs for gathering requirements, demo and user acceptance testing
- Triage and prioritize product improvement ideas received from different sources (internal & external)
- Combine the feedback gathered from the stakeholders, development ideas and future ideas to build and manage the product backlog
- Pro-actively work on the product backlog and update it on regular intervals
- Elaborate epics and features into user stories
- Document user stories along with acceptance tests
- Sprint planning and product backlog prioritization
What they are looking for
- A Software Engineer qualification or equivalent qualification is mandatory.
- Experience within the lending or loans industry is highly advantageous.
- Illustrate design ideas using process flows, wireframes, mockups.
- Knowledge of tools such as Balsamiq, Mockplus, MS Visio
- Fundamental knowledge of Agile and exposure in Agile software development environment/projects
- Knowledge of Analytics and data science domain is a plus
- Comfortable documenting user stories and having solutioning experience
- Strong business, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong verbal/written communication along with structured and strategic thinking.
- High Confidence levels, ability to take ownership & accountability with focus on the end result.
- Between 4-6 years relevant experience
- Proven experience working in both smaller and larger organisations having multicultural exposure.
- Proven track record of delivering and deploying software
- Experience with large enterprise client will be an added advantage
- Experience in Client and Stakeholder Management
- Domain and industry experience in Financial Services
- A Bachelors degree (ideally in technology) or a Masters degree or MBA