Senior Product Manager
Glass Lewis Europe Limited, Ireland
Job Description
Company Overview
Glass Lewis is the world’s choice for governance solutions. We enable institutional investors and?publicly listed?companies?to make sustainable decisions based in research and data. We cover 25,000+?meetings each year, across approximately 100 global markets.
Our customers include?the majority of?the world’s largest pension plans, mutual funds, and asset managers, collectively managing over?$40 trillion in assets. We have teams located across the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific giving us global reach with a local perspective on the important governance issues.
Founded in 2003, Glass Lewis is headquartered in San Francisco with offices across the US, Europe and APAC regions.
Position
We are looking for an experienced, self-motivated Senior Product Manager to join our Product team to help build industry-leading features, tools and products for our corporate clients. We offer flexible working in a collaborative, innovative and diverse environment.
Responsibilities
- As a member of the Product team, serve as the Senior Product Manager with overall product management responsibility for our suite of Corporate Solutions.
- Skills and responsibilities include:
- A product-led and customer-focused individual who enjoys problem solving and working collaboratively cross functionally to deliver best in class solutions for our clients.
- Be both strategic and tactical, responsible for setting and evangelizing our product vision.
- Acts as primary liaison partnering with cross functional teams (Technology, Research, PMO (Program Management Office), Operations, Client Services, Marketing, Sales, etc).
- Supports the identification of the vision and strategy. Aligns product priorities, works closely with the product owner and development team to prioritize, manage scope, budget, and time.
- Partners with Quality / Testing to ensure product delivered is to the highest standards and ensures output is demonstrable and aligned to objectives.
- A focus for continuous improvement, working with the team to refine the process, identify areas for improvement, and support the sprint.
- Evaluate product progress at each iteration, be accountable for each stage of the development process and the final product, playing a primary role in inspecting and evaluating product progress through each iteration.
- Establish deep Product Manager / Product Owner alignment understanding, anticipating customer and market needs.
- Be the product subject matter expert for your domain, drive scale and adoption of the product globally, clearly communicate vision and goals of the product
- Establish detailed business requirements and specifications for existing and new services and products
- Proactively identify gaps in the current product offering and lead the effort to develop solutions that drive business value
- Participate in client facing discussions as required, providing feedback, learn, evaluate, and apply in defining product
- Perform triage on critical issues, escalating as necessary and communicating consistently and clearly with all concerned parties
- Participate in user experience iterations and help conduct user research to test product enhancements
Requirements
- BA in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or similar relevant field or equivalent previous working experience as a Product Manager or Business Analyst.
- 4 to 7 years of Product Management/ Business Analyst experience in an Agile development environment
- Business and technical expertise necessary to work independently with stakeholders
- In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles, particularly Scrum and Kanban
- Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
- Conscious documenter, ensuring knowledge sharing and transfer through each stage of the product development process
- Strong analytical skills for evidence-based decision making
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Sharp problem-solving skills
- Creative thinker with a vision
- Empathy for internal and external customer needs
- Self-managed and motivated; detail-oriented
- Proficiency with JIRA,
- Experience with Miro, SQL and SSMS desired but not mandatory
Benefits
- Employer pension contribution*
- Private health insurance*
- Life insurance*
- Long term illness cover*
- Supported Study Leave*
*on completion of 6-month probation period