Product Manager
Stifel
- Saint Louis, MO
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work with agile and non-agile development, engineering, design, data, marketing, business stakeholders, vendors, and support teams to create and deliver features for our customers.
- Define and clearly communicate to cross functional teams the high-level mission, vision, and roadmap.
- Prioritize new features based on customer’s needs in alignment with the Firm’s strategy, goals, and technical capabilities.
- Perform user research and data analytics to form hypotheses and translate product requirements.
- Collaborate with designers to translate the product requirements into wireframes and high-fidelity designs while keeping the customer experience in mind.
- Lead cross-functional teams to collaborate and communicate across the Firm.
- Work with design, development, and engineering to build A/B/C tests that validate hypotheses, and use relevant data to suggest further product improvements.
- Define Leading Indicators, KPIs, and metrics to measure the success of the features and experiences put into the market.
- Apply agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined Scaled Agile Framework that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation of ongoing work.
- Utilize qualitative and quantitative customer and industry data to test hypotheses and identify consumer needs while creating and validating potential solutions.
- Foster communication and collaboration with Senior Business Leaders and their teams to create a clear and transparent product roadmap that aligns with the Firm’s goals and top priorities.
- Some travel by car and/or air in conjunction with local, regional, and/or national travel, up to 30%.
- Ability to manage and develop products with demonstrable and measurable results.
- Proven experience making tough, non-biased, decisions backed by user research, data analytics, A/B experimentation, user testing, competitors and marketing analysis, and metrics.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to find, analyze, and distill data into actionable insights
- Ability to communicate with all levels and types of people, in all types of communication methods, ensuring they completely understand decisions and directions.
- Solid understanding of technical problems; how to break down the work involved in solving them, and the impact of those decisions on engineering and the organization.
- Experience with Kanban, the Scaled Agile Framework, Agile, or Scrum processes.
- Ability to gather and listen to information in order to make a constructive, unbiased decisions considering overarching Firm strategy, goals, policies, and procedures.
- Proven understanding of database, with the ability to read and write basic SQL.
- Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, CMIS, Business Administration or related field preferred
- 7+ years’ experience in finance, technology, analysis, leadership or product ownership or management required