Company Description

As a Product Manager at Publicis Sapient, you act as your clients’ trusted advisor in leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for a specific digital product, or products, within an engagement. You will collaborate with clients undertaking major Digital Business Transformation (DBT) engagements to understand their business, end-customer needs, and then constantly deliver value with fast increment cycles. 

Job Description

Your Impact:

• Partner with client(s), strategists, experience leads, and architects to frame business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience
• Develop product vision, strategy, market/user research, by keeping the customer at the center of everything we do while using design thinking tools
• Represent client in ideation workshops with cross-functional leaders where you identify new ideas, customer needs, pain points, and solution options
• Develop solution hypotheses iteratively, based on user research, and industry and market trend analysis
• Establish customer journey mapping to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing
• Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined, prioritized features that will realize the product vision and value
• Validate and present the business case to the C–level executives and lead business reviews to ensure the team prioritizes the right features
• Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding the customer needs
• Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes
• Masterfully apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks 
• Collaborate with product owners, solution managers, and cross-functional product managers, to ensure alignment towards the same program increment (PI) objectives
• Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritize system enablers
• Represent industry best practice and market trends to assist the client in maintaining competitive advantage
• Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop influence without authority
• Inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:

• Deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles that maximize flow of value with a passion to extend this understanding throughout the organization
• Demonstrated success creating digital products vision, strategy, experience, and enterprise solutions and services - from ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality
• Demonstrate understanding of client’s objectives, market and competitive direction and be able to make product recommendations that maximize the value generation
• Deep financial services industry experience across one or more of the following areas:
• Transaction Banking – Cash Management / Liquidity Management, Payments and Cards, Commercial and Syndicated Lending, Trade and Supply Finance, Treasury Management, Forex Services
• Commercial Lending, Trade Finance, Payments/cash Management and Cards, Forex Services
• Asset Management – Portfolio Management, Trading, Confirmation & Settlement, Client & Regulatory Reporting, Results & Attribution
• Wealth Management – Lead Generation & Prospecting, Client Onboarding, Trading, SMA/UMA, Client and Advisor Experience, Accounting & Billing
• Risk Management – Credit Risk, Market Risk, Financial Crime Risk (Anti-Money Laundering, Know Your Customer etc.), Risk Analytics
• ESG market and datasets, and ESG data consolidation and integration into investment end-to-end workflows
• Familiarity with database, visualization, and data science tools e.g. SQL, Python, APIs
• Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services
• Proven ability in collaborating and leading Program Increment (PI) cycles
• Proven ability to prioritize multiple demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
• Practice in workshop facilitation to cultivate the ideation
• Ability to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts, with success leveraging data to make decisions about product feature increments
• Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value
• Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviors
• Influencer in continuous learning and innovation

Additional Information

Compensation Range: $98,000 - $147,000

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Financial Services Industry certifications such as CFA, FRM
• Asset Management experience
• Understand Financial products
• SQL
• Jira/Confluence
• Python
• Fixed Income Experience
• Blackrock Aladdin, CRD
• Bloomberg experience
• Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
• Certified Agile Product Manager designation

A Tip from the Hiring Manager

A successful Product Manager at Publicis Sapient combines leadership skills, rooted on customer centricity, with tactical product management skills to drive the clients and team in releasing program increments every 10-12 weeks (or applicable frequency at client’s organization).