Product Manager, VP

About this role

This role sits within Preqin, a part of BlackRock. Preqin plays a key role in how we are revolutionizing private markets data and technology for clients globally, complementing our existing Aladdin technology platform to deliver investment solutions for the whole portfolio. 

Preqin’s growth plan is to continue developing our market leading data platform while adding new capabilities to help our General Partner (GP) clients use it more effectively in their jobs, be it fund raising, capital allocation or evaluating investment performance. You’ll need to understand how our users in Investor Relations, Middle Office, Strategy and other teams in a Fund Manager use Preqin’s data and figure out opportunities to further enhance their job effectiveness.

As a VP Product Manager, you will be responsible for developing and optimising a subset of our products as part of a Product team reporting to the VP of Product for GP. You will be the single-threaded leader of a product set, and be accountable for customer experience, commercial impact, technical and operating solution, risks and mitigation, and any vendor relationships. You will partner closely with our key clients, engineers, designers, researchers, customer success and sales teams to build and operate the best possible products for our clients on behalf of the company. With relative autonomy, you will dive into the detail to diagnose and solve problems, map out an effective strategy, get hands-on to implement product improvements and deliver results, bring people together to make better decisions and muster broad support.

In this role you will:

• Define the product strategy and roadmap for your area, working closely with a multifunctional squad and other colleagues to deliver results that support company and BU goals.

• Own and drive continuous discovery and delivery of value-adding features and functionality to your assigned product area, balancing the two in parallel in an agile manner that progresses towards a bigger long-term outcome.

• Develop a deep understanding of customers’ needs, motivations, challenges and how they can best use Preqin for their jobs, by deep diving various sources (e.g. client user interviews, observing on-platform usage data, reviewing inbound enquiries/ feedback, building mock-ups/ pilots) and triangulating insights on root causes and opportunities.

• Identify and track the right metrics for your area and your customers and use these metrics (together with qualitative input) to inform product decisions and prioritisation.

• Lead and manage a team of engineers and designers and ensure they are productive and effective – you’ll get everyone aligned on priorities, combine their best possible thinking and deliver at pace with good quality consistently.

• Define, own and communicate a credible roadmap of your area to key stakeholders, and incorporate their feedback and align plans where necessary.

• Help to create an environment where colleagues can openly debate and make good collective decisions on important topics, and collaborate easily between teams

You are a good fit if:

• You care about customers deeply – you’re obsessed with finding out what their problems are, and how we are going to solve them.

• You have a commercial and results-oriented mindset, and are able to apply an understanding of customers, the market and our products to identifying where the biggest opportunities are.

• You have built proof-of-concept/ pilot products to get customer feedback and accelerate go-to-market.

• You have led a full-stack squad focused on measurable customer and commercial outcomes, with responsibility of roadmap, service levels, fix/ build/ deprecate decisions and team productivity.

• You’re a good executor, with a track record of getting product to customers quickly and iteratively. You can plan ahead, anticipate issues/ risks, make progress in an ambiguous environment and get hands-on with tasks and detail.

• You’re evidence based, using data, customer feedback and market insight to help us to build industry leading products. You also can make good decisions when there is insufficient data or time.

• You’re honest, self-aware and evidence based on how you and your team are doing, and continuously look for ways to improve; able to put aside your ego and learn lessons from all sorts of experiences.

• You’re an independent thinker as well as a good team player. You can think independently and argue your point persuasively, while also being open-minded, listen genuinely and earn the trust of your team mates. You resist groupthink but also know when to disagree and commit because team success comes first.