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As a Product Manager in our company, you will lead the planning and rollout of assigned products through ownership of product concepts, roadmaps, and prioritization with delivery teams. You will navigate a dynamic and distributed stakeholder and development environment to build and maintain a prioritized roadmap. Your responsibilities will include owning the product backlog and release plan, as well as championing and supporting the product development team by reducing churn and waste, removing blockers, escalating issues, and offering ideas, solutions, and technical product guidance. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in financial services markets and/or Agile software product development to drive product innovation, roadmap priorities, and requirements for the assigned product offering. Close collaboration with the product development team is key to success. You will collaborate closely with our leadership, sales, and client teams to pinpoint opportunities for our strategic focus and ensure that the release themes and plans align to deliver the capabilities to enable winning in the marketplace. You will act independently in determining methods and procedures for alignment to product strategy. Your duties will also involve facilitating product innovation and roadmap planning sessions, participating in release and sprint planning sessions, and discerning appropriate priorities from the product backlog based on various factors. Additionally, you will drive effective release priority communications to ensure that all appropriate internal teams have visibility to the contents of critical commitments in the releases. Furthermore, you will help the technical writing team members deliver product documentation to ensure effective internal and external communications of each release. Collaboration within and outside of the product management team to ensure product relevance and prioritization across segment offerings will also be a part of your responsibilities. Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree - Relevant Experience or Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field from an accredited university is required; however, relevant experience in lieu of a degree may be considered. - Typically a minimum of 8 years - Demonstrated track record in product development/management, preferably cloud-based SaaS products in a client-facing environment. Strong technical aptitude. Experience with Agile delivery methodology preferred. Preferred Qualifications: - Master's Degree - Computer Science or equivalent field from an accredited university. In this role, you are expected to have broad expertise or unique knowledge, using your skills to contribute to the development of company objectives and principles. You will have ownership of a function, account, or matrix management responsibilities, using your knowledge to ensure success, strengthen relationships, expand the business, and lead matrix teams on complex projects. You will work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles and exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments,