Financial Services Product Manager

*4 days onsite in NYC*

Join our dynamic team as a Financial Services Product Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping product delivery standards and fostering a mindset shift from project to product. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to enhance product delivery, focusing on digital platforms and enterprise-wide solutions. Your expertise will guide product owners and leaders, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and maximizing value delivery to end users.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance. 

Rate: $85 - $89 / hr. w2

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• You will be responsible for writing specs for minor features and contributing meaningfully to specs for major features. This includes negotiating the implementation of current work, making the right trade-off decisions to launch products in a high-quality manner, and knowing when to escalate to managers.

• You will work with teams to make recommendations that deliver maximum value to end users as quickly as possible. This involves efficiently assessing the quality and readiness of a release.

• You will manage the product backlog and near-term roadmap, ensuring that it is properly refined, prioritized, and groomed. This includes full ownership of user stories, the refinement process, and ongoing collaboration and updates with stakeholders.

• You will formulate the right business questions to be asked and know how to track down data to inform decisions. This includes using low fidelity tools to outline a design approach and then working with teams to translate them into higher fidelity representations of the feature.

Product Knowledge sharing and Education:

• You will make regular contact with users of the product and use multiple sources to prioritize roadmap decisions.

• Client Onboarding: You will oversee the onboarding process for new clients, ensuring they are well-acquainted with the product and its features.

• Education of End Users: You will provide training and educational resources to end users, helping them understand and effectively use the product.

Providing Hands-On Support at Pod/Group Level:

• You will provide guidance and support to junior staff, including colleagues at or below the POD group leveling.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of product experience

• 5+ years of financial services experience

• Possesses curiosity to ask the hard questions, explores new ideas, and continuously learns and researches to meet goals

• Strong communicator and influencer

• Organized, resourceful, and able to prioritize tasks

• Has an interest in constantly learning new tools and technologies and a passion to share your knowledge with the team

• Experience working in an agile environment

• Microsoft Office Suite

• Jira/Confluence

Bachelor's degree in Business Management or related discipline

Agile Certification (preferred but not required)

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.


W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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