Product Manager, Financial Systems

**What will you be doing?**
- As a Product Manager you will lead a multi-disciplinary team in the design, development, and implementation of complex customer-facing financial systems.
- You will act as the voice of the customer, with a perspective informed through research and data-driven insights and direct customer engagement.
- You will use the latest product management frameworks and agile methodology to deliver a solution that conforms to established business requirements and advances the customer experience.
- You will be responsible for developing and maintaining the product roadmap and backlog.
- You will contribute to the advancement of our product development practice, including maturing our tools and methods.
- This position reports to the Vice-President, Product and Experience.

**Why join the team at Ascent Strategy?**

Ascent Strategy is a high-growth customer experience design studio that is changing the way market-leading companies develop new products and services. Weaving deep technical insight and domain knowledge with the principles of human-centered design, our team reveals new sources of customer value and sustainable advantage.

We don’t just help our clients adapt to the future, we help them create it.

Joining Ascent means joining a passionate team of diverse talents that applies creativity, strategy, and design to generate breakthrough ideas, rethink old problems, and create real value in people’s lives. Our team culture is engaging, open, and inclusive. At Ascent, you’ll be empowered to make an impact on our projects, our team, and how we do business.

We’re committed to creating a better and more sustainable future.

**In this role, you will**:
Achieve a deep understanding of the market and customer
- Conduct thorough research and analysis to understand customer needs, opportunities, market trends, best practices, disruptive innovations, and new technologies as they relate to the product.
- Identify relevant insights and leverage them to inform product design and features.

Develop winning product strategies
- Develop and refine product strategies, ensuring alignment with customer needs and client business objectives.
- Identify, define, and prioritize key features and functionality.
- Ensure all aspects of product design, development, and implementation are driven by the customer experience.

Create a compelling roadmap that drives products forward
- Create and maintain the product feature roadmap.
- Align the delivery of product features with the long-term product strategy.
- Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary product team to ensure timely and high-quality execution of the product roadmap.

Establish priorities and manage the product backlog
- Create and maintain the product backlog based on business requirements.
- Prioritize the backlog, resolve sequencing and technical conflicts, monitor progress, and ensure quality.
- Report on product development progress, mitigate challenges, and overcome barriers.

Measure outcomes and monitor performance
- Align the product design, backlog, and roadmap with project budget and resources.
- Monitor product development activities and report on progress internally and externally.
- Manage client approvals, regulatory compliance activities, and other administrative tasks.
- Monitor product performance outcomes and identify improvement opportunities.

Engage stakeholders
- Maintain ongoing communication with stakeholders to understand business needs and expectations.
- Create change management conditions that contribute to project success.
- Present and explain product designs, research, performance, roadmaps and other dimensions to stakeholders at all levels.

Deliver high-quality work in a high-performance team environment
- Manage the product delivery team, allocate resources, and channel diverse ideas and perspectives into a cogent product vision.
- Ensure the timely delivery of high-quality project deliverables.
- Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team in an agile environment.
- Challenge and be challenged in pursuit of the best possible solution.

Help us get better
- Stay current on the latest trends and best practices in product development, product management, and the industries we support.
- Recommend and help implement improvements to our tools and methods.

**Your fellow team members will rely on you to**:

- Understand how to intersect customer needs and business needs to design products that deliver value.
- Be a strong and reliable voice for the customer within the product delivery team.
- Be an excellent problem solver, analyze challenges from multiple perspectives, and demonstrate sound decision-making.
- Handle multiple tasks and prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
- Develop a deep and authorative understanding of the customer, the market, broader trends, and the product.
- Be able to zoom-out to connect detailed areas of analysis to the broader user experience and strategic context.
- Possess exceptional