Senior Product Associate

Job responsibilities

• Manage execution and oversight of product initiatives and delivery, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Manage Technology Transformation priorities, including data and service migration from legacy to modernized platforms.
• Define process/ rule flows and write clear epics and stories with well-articulated use cases and acceptance criteria that will help validate that delivered functionality fulfills business and KYC requirements.
• Manage product dependencies required for successful product delivery.
• Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts to understand current system flows, usage, and assess the impact of changes.
• Serve as the liaison between Business, Architecture, Development, and Testing teams throughout the product lifecycle facilitate communication and drive meetings.
• Collaborate with Test teams to ensure comprehensive scenario identification, defect resolution, and delivery of a quality end-user product define and execute Product Testing where needed.
• Escalate issues as needed to maintain transparency.
• Partner with Leadership Team for ongoing planning, refinement of product backlog, and execution of the product roadmap, business case development, and reporting of OKRs (Objectives and Key Results).
• Handle ongoing and ad hoc Governance needs and Reporting tasks.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 3 +years of product management experience with a Bachelor's degree
• Strong communication skills and the ability to quickly grasp and distill complex concepts to a variety of audiences and levels - including to senior management, project contributors, technical and business facing partners.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, and ability to multi-task and manage multiple priorities independently.
• Initiative-taking, energetic, results-oriented, curious and attention to detail. Exhibits a continuous improvement mindset towards all duties.
• Proficient in tools like JIRA, Align, SNOWs, and advanced Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint).
• Ability to dive into production issues, perform root cause analysis, and identify fixes.
• In-depth knowledge of Agile processes and principles, including use of Agile tools (e.g., Confluence, JIRA).

• Ability to pivot between leading and executing, as needed. Familiarity with driving backlog hygiene.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills