Senior Director Product Management, Financial Services

Job Description

As a Senior Director Product Management at Publicis Sapient, you act as your clients’ trusted advisor in leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for a specific financial product, or products, within an engagement.

You will collaborate with clients undertaking major Digital Business Transformation (DBT) engagements to understand their business, end-customer needs, and then constantly deliver value with fast increment cycles.

Your Impact :

Partner with Financial Services clients, strategists, experience leads, and architects to frame business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience

Gain deep insight into client’s problems and Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, including Wall Street banks, exchanges, treasury, hedge funds, pension funds, and FinTech firms.

Provide guidance on core capital markets, risk and compliance, and business and IT alignment

Develop product vision, strategy, market / user research, by keeping the customer at the center of everything we do while using design thinking tools

Lead digital transformation initiatives from inception to full operational integration across various facets of investment management operations, including Portfolio Implementation, Portfolio Accounting, Cash Management, Trade Operations, Corporate Actions, Reconciliation, Data Management, and Performance and Benchmarking

Maintain comprehensive knowledge of regulatory frameworks and compliance mandates, including MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, Basel III, FRTB, and others

Conduct impact assessments, root cause analyses, benchmark studies, and hypothesis testing across various business lines and functions

Demonstrate thorough understanding of the Trade Life Cycle and extensive operational expertise across multiple asset classes and traded products, including Fixed Income, Equities, Derivatives, and Swaps

Validate and present the business case to the C level executives and lead business reviews to ensure the team prioritizes the right features

Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes

Collaborate with product owners, solution managers, and cross-functional product managers, to ensure alignment towards the same program increment (PI) objectives

Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritize system enablers

Represent Financial Services industry best practice and market trends to assist the client in maintaining competitive advantage

Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop influence without authority

Work with Publicis Sapient regional leadership and capability leaders to drive organic growth through trust and value-led relationships with the key client stakeholders responsible for digital transformation

Participate in sales pursuits and business development and contribute toward business growth in the region through prospect cultivation, account plan development and value demonstration activities

Inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services