SENIOR DIRECTOR PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, FINANCIAL SERVICES
Company: Publicis Groupe
Location: New York
Posted on: October 14, 2024
Job Description:
Company DescriptionPublicis Sapient is a digital transformation
partner helping established organizations get to their future,
digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they
serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up
mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and
customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving
creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping
people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in
53 offices around the world combine experience across technology,
data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our
clients' businesses through designing the products and services
their customers truly value.Job DescriptionAs a Senior Director
Product Management at Publicis Sapient, you act as your clients'
trusted advisor in leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap,
and prioritization for a specific financial 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.Your Impact:
- Partner with Financial Services clients, 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
- Gain deep insight into client's problems and Serve as a trusted
advisor to clients, including Wall Street banks , exchanges ,
treasury , hedge funds , pension funds , and FinTech firms. Provide
guidance on core capital markets , risk and compliance , and
business and IT alignment
- Develop product vision, strategy, market/user research, by
keeping the customer at the center of everything we do while using
design thinking tools
- Lead digital transformation initiatives from inception to full
operational integration across various facets of investment
management operations , including Portfolio Implementation ,
Portfolio Accounting , Cash Management , Trade Operations ,
Corporate Actions , Reconciliation , Data Management , and
Performance and Benchmarking
- Maintain comprehensive knowledge of regulatory frameworks and
compliance mandates , including MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, Basel III,
FRTB, and others
- Conduct impact assessments, root cause analyses, benchmark
studies, and hypothesis testing across various business lines and
functions
- Demonstrate thorough understanding of the Trade Life Cycle and
extensive operational expertise across multiple asset classes and
traded products, including Fixed Income, Equities, Derivatives, and
Swaps
- Validate and present the business case to the C - level
executives and lead business reviews to ensure the team prioritizes
the right features
- Establish objective goals for the product with success and
acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and
quantifiable business outcomes
- 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 Financial Services 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
- Work with Publicis Sapient regional leadership and capability
leaders to drive organic growth through trust and value-led
relationships with the key client stakeholders responsible for
digital transformation
- Participate in sales pursuits and business development and
contribute toward business growth in the region through prospect
cultivation, account plan development and value demonstration
activities
- 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
servicesQualificationsYour Skills & Experience:
- Significant Financial Services industry (specifically in asset
and/or wealth management) knowledge and thought leader-level
abilities with, and a proven record of success directing efforts in
the industry either in professional consulting services or
corporate roles, helping companies define and evaluate product
strategies and portfolios, reflecting market, competitive and other
external drivers
- Demonstrated success creating digital products vision,
strategy, experience, and enterprise solutions and services - from
ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality
applying customer centricity and design thinking
- Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on
customer-focused products and services
- Demonstrated ability to proactively seek opportunities to
enhance expertise, foster innovation, and elevate the visibility of
the Capital Markets team's capabilities
- Experience in representing client in ideation workshops with
cross-functional leaders where you identify new ideas, customer
needs, pain paints, and solution options through customer
centricity and applying design thinking
- Translate product vision into a roadmap containing
well-defined, prioritized features that will realize the product
vision and value
- 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
- Deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery
principles that maximize flow of value with a passion to extend
this understanding throughout the organization
- Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change
behaviors
- Influencer in continuous learning and innovationSet Yourself
Apart With:
- Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
- Certified Agile Product Manager designation
- 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)Additional InformationBenefits
of Working Here
- Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or
accrued
- 16 paid holidays throughout the year
- Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Corporate gift matching programPay Range: $222,000 -
$315,000The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges
currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this
position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset
required for the work itself.As part of our dedication to an
inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to
Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color,
national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status,
disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We
are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for
qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in
our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an
accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at
hiring@publicissapient.com or you may call us at
+1-617-621-0200.Your information will be kept confidential
according to EEO guidelines.
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