Mortgage & Consumer Lending - Enterprise Software Product Manager

Company Description

Curinos is the leading provider of data, technologies and insights that enable financial institutions to make better, and more profitable, data-driven decisions faster. Born out of the combination of two familiar industry powerhouses, Novantas and Informa’s FBX business, Curinos brings to market a new level of industry expertise across deposits, lending and digital experience solutions and technologies.

Job Description

Curinos is currently seeking a Real Estate & Consumer Lending (RECL) Enterprise Software Product Manager to support the rapid growing suite of B2B SaaS lending analytics and optimization products. This position is a remote/hybrid position, with the ideal candidate working remotely from Dallas or  NY -tri-state area and/or be able to travel to our Manhattan office occasionally for working sessions or team meetings. The ideal candidate will also have experience in product management, with a background in secured and/or unsecured lending, interest rate pricing strategy, or adjacent areas of expertise.

The RECL Product Manager will be responsible for key products in our suite of B2B SaaS lending analytics and optimization platforms. These applications serve our financial institution customers’ needs to monitor lending performance, optimize revenue, and increase lending volume.  

The Enterprise Software Product Manager is responsible for end-to-end product lifecycles, bringing product features from concept to reality. They work closely with Business Owners as well as our full stack Engineering teams, as the conduit in the middle that “speaks both languages”. Taking the high-level direction and industry targets from our Business Owners, the Product Manager is responsible for creating and implementing a strategic roadmap to accomplish these directives. They will drive all steps of the development process, from collaboration with SMEs, to customer interviews, to ideating on workflows with the UX team, to specs, designs, and the final build with Engineering and QA colleagues. Our Product Management team is expected to work closely with our users and internal Client Services team to build and maintain expertise in how our clients use these analytic decision support tools to drive intelligent business decisions. 

You will be responsible to:

• Create and manage the product’s long term strategic roadmap, in consultation with Business Owners and other stakeholders – optimizing for product revenue
• Define future product features, with a tangible understanding of the underlying technologies and datasets
• Lead and track the management and execution of quarterly product OKRs – beginning with setting Objectives in line with the product’s strategic roadmap
• Translate roadmap objectives into future product requirements and development plans, coordinating closely with industry experts, business owners, UX designers, Client Services teams, clients, and more
• Manage the strategic tradeoff between investment across support efficiency initiatives, platforms, tech debt, and new features
• Work closely with Product Marketing and Learning teams on market or user facing materials
• Analyze user data and industry or competitor research to identify trends and insights that will facilitate product success
• Be the go-to expert for the value proposition of your product, and dedicated towards its success

The Product Manager must also be able to execute on, or lead Product Owners to execute on, responsibilities associated with traditional agile Product Owner position, such as:

• Manage, track, and update the highly detailed near-term roadmaps and project plans
• Create detailed requirements documents – from high level BRDs to feature level stories, often requiring solid technical understanding of the underlying data process flows or methodology
• Work with engineering teams in every step of development to successfully translate user needs, business requirements, and specifications into functional products efficiently and quickly
• Advocate for our end client users throughout the development and design process, with a solid understanding of the reasons, and ways, they use our products
• Create / manage product backlogs; participate in and/or lead agile development ceremonies
• Closely partner with the QA team to provide acceptance criteria on collaborate on release signoffs

ABOUT YOU

You are well versed in banking, particularly in the mortgage and consumer lending domain.  You have a deep understanding of lending data and analytics, including pricing, profitability, risk, and performance. You excel at understanding and communicating complex ideas. You stay on schedule and can handle juggling several different priorities, driving each forward