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Publicis Sapient

Senior Director Product Management, Financial Services

Publicis Sapient, New York, New York, us, 10261


As 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 services

Qualifications

Your 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 innovation

Set 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 Information

Benefits 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 program

Pay Range: $222,000 - $315,000

The 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.

Company Description

Publicis 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.

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