Manager-Product Development-Product Development

Essential Skills -

• Product Vision & Strategy: Demonstrated ability to align and work towards a clear product vision and long-term roadmap that aligns with business goals. Proven experience in supporting the development and articulation of strategic plans with leaders for new product development initiatives, along with improvement, and innovation at scale.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Skilled at collaborating across multiple teams including engineering, operations, compliance, product, analytics, and business units to deliver value. The ability to collaborate and drive initiatives in a highly matrixed environment. Guide multi-functional teams through strategic and tactical decisions, recognizing dependencies, risks, and solutions.
• Agile Product Management: Well-versed in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, Design Thinking), with hands-on experience managing backlogs (user stories, epics, features), facilitating sprint planning, and utilizing tools such as JIRA and JIRA Align.
• Technical Expertise: Strong technical background, including experience with planning API/service design and integration, SQL, and data querying (SQL Developer, Postgres SQL), and management of large-scale, data-driven platforms. Ability to engage in technical solutioning and brainstorming discussions with architects, engineers, and QA teams, ensuring robust and scalable solutions. Ability to translate business requirements into product features and ensure adherence throughout the product lifecycle. Demonstrates strong technical expertise and can turn capabilities into long term product strategies and vision for Technology Teams.
• Data Analysis & Problem Solving: Advanced skills in data analysis, process mapping, impact/gap/root cause analysis, and supporting stakeholders with complex data requests. Experience in extracting actionable insights from large datasets to finalize product decisions and drive enhancements.
• User Acceptance Testing: Conduct thorough UAT for client integrations and new features (frontend and backend/API) in pre- and post-production by defining objectives and scope, creating timelines, developing and executing test cases, validating results, tracking defects until resolved, and supporting stakeholders throughout the process.
• Wireframing & UX Design: Experience in creating detailed wireframes and mockups, collaborating with stakeholders to refine user experience and interface design.
• User and Client Centric Mindset: Enthusiastic about improving user experience, supporting product demos, gathering feedback, and ensuring that solutions meet user needs and compliance standards.