Head of Quantitative Products and Project Management

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Job Description

In this compelling leadership position, you will be accountable for building, developing, or designing functionality for a product, as well as manage and ensure completion of the implementation and ongoing enhancement or maintenance of existing products. 
  
THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE 
As a member of the Enterprise Modeling Operations team, the Head of Quantitative Products and Project Management will be responsible for overseeing all core modeling applications.  You will work closely with model owners, business users, technology teams and other stakeholders to document, design and deploy modeling capabilities to the enterprise. This role will offer you the flexibility to make each day your own, while working alongside people who care so that you can deliver on the following responsibilities:  

• Oversee and provide guidance on the design strategy for new products. 

• Oversee and drive the implementation process for new products. 

• Direct product improvement efforts. 

• Provide strategic guidance on product lifecycle maintenance. 

• Define product strategy that is in alignment with business objectives. 

• Drive a product management mindset through informal and formal trainings and enhancing product lifecycle discipline. 

THE EXPERIENCE YOU BRING TO THE TEAM 

Minimum Required Experiences: 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent. 

• At least 8 years of relevant product leadership experience. 

• Experience in the full lifecycle of product management/development including designing products, developing product roadmaps, translating design requirements, prototyping, demand management, etc. 

• Deep leadership experience including leading teams, giving feedback, facilitating meetings, and coaching and mentoring. 

• Highly organized, self-motivated, and effective communicator.   

Desired Experiences: 

• Master's degree in the field of finance, economics, computer science or business administration. 

• 10 or more years of Product Management experience, preferably with large, complex modeling applications. 

• Experience supporting core financial modeling applications such as interest rate, prepayment and valuation models. 

• Product Management experience including managing demand, releases, and backlog. 

• Product Development experience including designing products, developing product roadmaps, translating design requirements, prototyping, etc. 

• Influencing experience including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict. 

• Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal. 

• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand. 

• Experience helping an organization to plan and manage change in effort to meet strategic objectives. 

• Ability to frame ideas as systems and analyzing the inputs, outputs, and process. 

• Experience in the process of analyzing data to identify trends or relationships to inform conclusions about the data. 

• Relationship management experience including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc. 

  

Tools: 

• Advanced skills with Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, JIRA, SharePoint and Confluence. 

• Skilled in Tableau. 

• Skilled in Excel. 

• Skilled in Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings, development, and networking platforms.

Target Salary Range: $196,000-$264,000

Enterprise Modeling & Analytics - Product Management - Senior Director

Qualifications

Business Intelligence (BI), Business Strategies, Design Strategy, Implementation Management, Product Development, Product Lifecycle, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Management, Product Roadmap, Product Strategies, Strategy Development

Education:

Bachelor's Level Degree (Required)

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