DealCoud Product Manager, AVP - Credit Technology

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Business Unit Overview:
Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone’s businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies.
BXTI is nimble and entrepreneurial – our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development means that everyone on the team has the opportunity to make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge.

  
Blackstone Credit manages approximately $450 billion of loan and bond assets. As a Product Owner in Credit Technology, you will be a part of a collaborative team that continues to build tools for our partners in Blackstone Credit and Insurance (BXCI) to help scale the business and achieve firmwide goals. You will be responsible for identifying, designing, and implementing solutions and processes to enhance user efficiency and improve business process using technology throughout a deal’s lifecycle. Your primary responsibility will include working with front, middle and back-office professionals across BXCI to ensure the scalability of our deal platform, capture key attributes of a deal that is necessary for reporting, legal/compliance, client relationship management, and any downstream dependencies and centralize our deal lifecycle processes. The platform you will be managing integrates with several internal and external systems, requiring multi-application understanding for efficient technical implementation. Besides working with the Tech Lead and the scrum teams, you will also work with various business stakeholders, including but not limited to, Portfolio Managers, Deal Teams, Operations, Data Governance, and other middle-office professionals, business management, and legal and compliance users.

Responsibilities:

• Developing a vision and defining a future landscape for the Product(s)

• Building a roadmap to achieve the vision and socializing it with senior stake

• holders

• Writing user stories and epics to build out and groom the backlog, prioritize

• the backlog, and define releases 

• Maintaining product for downstream applications while building new integr

• tions with vendors

• Driving implementation of new features and enhancements

• Documenting user requests and feedback

• Coordinating and triaging production support issues 

• Writing end user release notes for upcoming releases

• Training new team members as they are onboarded

• Facilitating demos with stakeholders 

• Building relationships with end users (listed above) so you become their trusted advisor

• Developing strong vendor relations

• Promoting user adoption by writing detailed documentation

• Organizing training material and communications

• Engage proactively with users across the firm to identify pain points, facilitating brainstorming sessions to develop innovative solutions

• Being accessible to the developers for them to ask questions and better understand what they are coding

Required Qualifications:         
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