Senior Director Product Management, Financial Services

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

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:

• Lead end-to-end digital transformation initiatives, incorporating AI-powered solutions from initial strategy to operational integration across investment management functions, including Portfolio Implementation, Portfolio Accounting, Cash Management, Trade Operations, Corporate Actions, Reconciliation, Data Management, and Performance & Benchmarking.
• 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
• Collaborate 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 and AI transformations
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Represent Financial Services industry best practice and market trends to assist the client in maintaining competitive advantage

Your Skills & Experience:

• Significant Financial Services industry knowledge and thought leader-level abilities with, and a proven record of success directing efforts in the industry either in professional consulting services or corporate roles, helping companies define and evaluate product strategies that leverages AI/ML, reflecting market, competitive and other external drivers.
• Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused and B2B products and services
• Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined, prioritized features that will realize the product vision and value
• Proven ability to prioritize multiple demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
• Ability to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts, with success leveraging data to make decisions about product feature increments
• Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value
• Deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles that maximize flow of value with a passion to extend this understanding throughout the organization
• Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviors
• Influencer in continuous learning and innovation

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
• Certified Agile Product Manager designation
• A successful Product Manager at Publicis Sapient combines leadership skills, rooted on customer centricity, with tactical product management skills to drive the clients and team in releasing program increments every 10-12 weeks (or applicable frequency at client’s organization)

A Tip From the Hiring Manager

A successful Product Manager at Publicis Sapient combines leadership skills, rooted on customer centricity, with tactical product management skills to drive the clients and team in releasing program increments every 10-12 weeks (or applicable frequency at client’s organization)

Benefits of Working Here

• Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued
• 16 paid holidays throughout the year
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Corporate gift matching program

Pay Range: $222,000 - $315,000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.

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