Lead Product Manager
Job Description
We’re looking for a passionate product leader to join our team and take a leading role in the management and development of new features and functionality, across our group wide product and services. Based either out of our Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne office, the successful candidate will be charged with representing the needs and wants of one or many of the business capability streams we deliver on. They will drive delivery and implementation and adoption of products, processes, projects and strategies to support the Loan Market Group business. With a natural technical aptitude or background and a highly analytical nature, solving complex problems and logic challenges will be a breeze for this candidate. As part of a multidisciplinary team, they will have professional communication skills across various channels, to support communication to stakeholders but also our user network. They will have a high level of leadership capabilities and be willing to invest time in educating and upskilling their direct reports and the broader business.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Drive delivery and implementation of products, processes, projects and strategies to support the Loan Market Group business.
- Drive the end-to-end development of new products, processes, and lifecycle management of Technology products.
- Ultimate responsibility for delivery of assigned product(s) in collective/group of product & Service streams
- Maintain ongoing knowledge of regulatory changes that will impact the business and ensure appropriate steps are taken to ensure accuracy of financial reporting.
- Work as part of a cross-functional team to prioritise and deliver product increments efficiently and effectively by balancing investment against return of each feature with a clear understanding of desirability (of our users), viability (for our business model) and feasibility (of whether it can be achieved technically).
- Provide vision and direction to the team and stakeholders and create pitches of work for, in collaboration with development, design and business team members.
- Be an active Leader of the Product Management team providing input from the business capability they own, into new features, the roadmap and product vision.
- Own and drive short, mid and long term planning tools and communicate delivery windows with key stakeholders.
- Run Beta/pilots for new features and evaluate their suitability for launch across all markets.
- Be a champion of go to market requirements, driving adoption and advocacy across the entire network.
- Engage regularly with local user base in each market and solicit feedback regularly and often on new, piloted and existing features to identify areas of improvement.
- Mitigate impediments impacting successful team completion of pitch and business goals.
- Stay on top of competitor analysis for the business capability they own and identify weaknesses and opportunities for the platform to mitigate or leverage respectively.
- Monitor analytics of the product for areas of improvement to drive user adoption and satisfaction skyward.
- Supervises a team of employees and drives personal growth and practice improvement.
- May be required to direct contractors & provide advice to specialists.
- May supervise a small team of technical consultants or diverse project teams.
Skills & Experience
Essential:
- Product Manager experience (7+ Years)
- Experience in a data centric environment
- Team Leadership Experience (3+ Years)
- Demonstrates empathy & sound understanding of client needs
- Documentation best practice skills
- Outstanding communication at all levels
- Analytical and logical problem solver
- Worked in ShapeUp, Scrum or Kanban environment
- Self-organising, excellent time management
- Stakeholder management experience with extensive
- Influencing skills and experience
- Experience working in a distributed team
Desirable:
- Exposure to a SaaS environment
- Previous product leadership experience
- Industry product leader