Senior Director Product Management, Financial Services

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.

Job Description

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