Director of Product Management, Consumer

Company Description

Curinos empowers financial institutions to make better, faster and more profitable decisions through industry-leading proprietary data, technologies and insights. With decades-long expertise in the financial services industry and a relentless focus on the future, Curinos technology and analytics ecosystem allows clients to anticipate customer needs and optimize their go-to market decisions in an increasingly competitive market.

This is a hybrid position, with the ideal candidate located near one of our regional hubs (New York, Chicago) and able to travel to an office as needed for working sessions or team meetings.

Job Description

The Director of Product, Consumer will manage Curinos’s suite of products that serve consumer and retail bank clients.

Retail Deposit Optimizer helps some of the largest banks in the United States create and curate more profitable customer relationships through deposit products across over $5 trillion of balances under management by analyzing and identifying actionable next-steps for their product and pricing offers across retail deposit accounts.

• Retail Deposit Analyzer provides industry benchmarks and a clear view of market trend to financial institutions to help them intelligently track their portfolios in relation to the market.
• Unsecured Lenders Benchmark delivers competitive intelligence that allows lenders to assess their unsecured lending performance in relation to the market in near real time against 42 of the top 50 lenders in the United States
•  Consumer Lending Pricing Data allows our clients to compare their price position against their competitors in the consumer lending space, with pricing data sourced through trusted channels and client data contribution.
• Finally, Retail Deposit Pricing Data gives Curinos clients access to deposit data from over 3,600 financial institutions, providing their teams with the real-time market intelligence they need to make better product and pricing decisions.

THE ROLE

We are seeking a seasoned Director of Product Management to guide and execute on the strategic direction for our portfolio of Consumer banking products and data offerings.

This Director of Product Management will be responsible for creating the cross-product strategy and roadmaps that meet the Consumer business needs. This role is a mix of individual contributor work and direct management of one Product Manager and product pod from day one.

You will:

•  Use your understanding of the market and its needs, through direct engagement with financial institution clients, to identify opportunities and requirements;
• Create impact-driven, not feature-focused, roadmaps that solve customer and client problems, enabling the business to meet its objectives.
•  Develop a holistic and exhaustive understanding of our products’ infrastructures and capabilities.
• Manage multi-layered stakeholder relationships across Engineering, business unit leaders, data architects, and other Product team members.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate market trends, the competitive landscape, and emerging technologies to manage the tradeoff between investment across operational efficiency, tech debt, and new features
• Analyze user data and industry or competitor research to identify trends and insights that will facilitate product success
• Partner with our Consumer business unit to create, manage, and communicate an inspiring product vision and impact-focused roadmap for our suite of Consumer banking products;
• Contribute to commercial activity, such as providing strategic input into client pitch-work and RFP responses, or participating in industry & product conferences or webinars;
• Run and directly participate in the daily operations of a high-performing Product Pod, including writing user stories with support from your Engineering Manager and UX Designer, planning sprints, and delivering measurable value to our clients;
• Manage a Product Manager, providing leadership, training, and career guidance.

Base Salary Range: $160,000 - $200,000 plus bonus.

Qualifications

Desired Skills & Expertise

• At least 6 years of software Product Management experience with demonstrated career progression and business-moving product impact and a focus on B2B or B2B2C SaaS solutions.
• At least 2 years of experience in retail banking or serving the retail banking industry, with a preference for consumer deposit experience.
• Demonstrated experience as a Senior Product Manager or higher working in enterprise and B2B software as a user-centric product manager with a consistent record of multi-workstream management and effective delivery in an Agile environment.
• Demonstrated ability t