Product Manager

Xactus•Broomall, PA

14d•Remote

About The Position

The Product Manager plays a critical role in the growth and success of the Xactus Product Team and in enabling Xactus to achieve its objectives and core values, while optimizing for the end-to-end customer journey. This strategic and hands-on role applies Agile methodologies and leadership skills to successfully deliver prioritized initiatives, providing strategic thinking, and maximizing the value and health of the team backlog. To achieve this, the Product Manager is responsible for cultivating and maintaining productive working relationships with key stakeholders and the development teams to build innovative solutions for our customers. The Product Manager creates clarity in vision, manages development team priorities and stakeholder expectations through shared understanding, ongoing communications, and alignment. This role is responsible for delivering value, continuous improvement, and fostering innovation. The Product Manager is the custodian and voice of the customer. They are accountable for delivering solutions that align with the organization’s strategic objectives, increase the ability to generate insights, and partner with UX to provide exceptional user experiences. This is a unique role that is critical in bringing together people, processes, and technologies that drive the Xactus vision and in achievement of strategic objectives.

Requirements

4+ years of product manager experience, preferably in a SaaS environment and/or in the financial services/fintech industry
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong presentation and leadership skills
Self-starter who understands how to effectively deal with ambiguity and with changing priorities
Strong analytic skills required, including the ability to interpret customer needs into application and operational requirements
Great team player – must have the ability to deal with conflicts, manage negotiations, provide feedback and drive needed change management practices with the objective of achieving the required outcomes
Candidates must be a resident of the United States, and should be authorized and eligible for employment in the United States.
Employment is contingent upon successful completion of required background checks (including but not limited to federal and state criminal history checks, employment history verification, education verification, credit history check) and pre-employment drug screening.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Agile Scrum/Agile Development Methodology with a focus on supporting daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives and consistently improving maturity in agile practices preferred, but not required

Responsibilities

Independently brings fresh ideas, innovation, and strategy to the Xactus product backlog.
Ensure the teams backlogs reflect an improved and innovative customer experience.
Partner with VP, Product to drive the successful delivery of strategic initiatives by ensuring clear communications and alignment throughout the development lifecycle in an environment of rapid feedback and continuous adaptation while monitoring and maintaining alignment with strategic objectives.
Provide Subject Matter Expertise for development and test teams (communicating business value, removing blockers, adding details), business analysts, strategy team, and business stakeholders (explaining technical options and approaches, solution pros/cons).
Serve as the “voice of the customer,” representing users and sponsor interests, building cohesion and leading working groups, aligning with technical best practices, enhancing strategic data capture, and improving the user experience.
Partner with Product VP to Identify and highlight cross-functional impacts of development delivery – opportunities for secondary team benefits and downstream and/or unintended impacts or risks to be mitigated.
Ensure Data and Analytics strategy is folded into all aspects of delivery: incorporation of data strategy into all requirements to enable the collection and aggregation of data from various sources and measurement.
Lead internal and stakeholder meetings (e.g., Refinement, Demos) and drive collaboration between teams and planning functions to improve delivery velocity and quality of products.
Build cross-organizational awareness of issues and readiness for Product and Epic release through contribution to weekly updates and detail deployment features in comprehensive Release Notes that incorporate work completed, business impact, and “wins.”
Create epic outlines and timelines, monitor and communicate progress, break down high-level Epics and broad requirements into more detailed user stories, and distribute responsibilities across team members and stakeholders.