Product Operations Manager

**Company Description**
Curinos is the leading provider of data, technologies and insights that enable financial institutions to make better, and more profitable, data-driven decisions faster. Born out of the combination of two familiar industry powerhouses, Novantas and Informa’s FBX business, Curinos brings to market a new level of industry expertise across deposits, lending and digital experience solutions and technologies.

**Responsibilities**
- Act as product lead for the build and operation of a new ‘Data Lakehouse’ at Curinos, which will strategically combine data from across our offerings to facilitate:

- Richer analytic offerings and models that utilize data assets from across product silos
- Efficiency gains through centralizing data elements utilized by multiple products
- Creation and delivery of new data assets to internal and external customers
- Continued strict adherence to data rights management needs for all managed datasets
- Establish, document, and communicate processes that will ensure the successful ongoing operations and effective utilization of the Data Lakehouse across multiple contributors, consumers, and stakeholders. Cross team collaboration is a critical component of this position.
- Manage ongoing operations of the Data Lakehouse with all consumers and contributors of data
- Create and manage the Data Lakehouse’s long term strategic roadmap, in consultation with key internal Product, Business, and Engineering stakeholders - optimizing for enabling revenue, scale, and new product/feature/insight development. This will require fluency in:

- The attributes that define the scope of appropriate uses, level of aggregation and/or obfuscation requirements, etc, of all Lakehouse datasets
- The needs of our internal and external customers
- Lead and track the management and execution of OKRs
- Work closely with technical writing teams on documentation and reference guides for internally facing reference materials, and external collateral highlighting our data offerings & capabilities
- Participate in agile ceremonies with the broader Data Platforms teams to create detailed requirements and stories for related to the design, build, and testing of Data Lakehouse components

**About You**
You are experienced in Product Operations and/or Product Management, and ideally came into the field with a technical background or with technical experience. You’re intrigued by the stories that data can tell and understand the ways it is used in metric oriented pipelines. You excel at understanding and communicating interconnected processes. When something is on your to-do list, you follow through without needing reminders. It is exceptionally important to you that things be done correctly. You value efficiency and are a proactive fixer. You have a good grasp of future high-level goals and can keep them in mind when determining what to do next. You know it is your responsibility to anticipate challenges and mitigate risks. You evangelize your product and exude enthusiasm. You can talk to product/business partners or engineers with equal ease. You believe in agile development.

**Qualifications** Desired Skills & Expertise**
- Bachelor’s Degree required OR equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- 3+ years’ experience in product operations, product management, or a product-centric solutions development role
- Experience working with or on a shared data storage solution (lake, warehouse, lakehouse, etc)
- Strong analytical capabilities including the ability to interpret and explain complex systems and ideas
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently but collaborate with multiple stakeholders
- Excellent organizational and time management skills; attention to detail
- Experience with Databricks and underlying core features like Unity Catalog is a big plus
- Familiarity with programming languages such as SQL and/or Python is a big plus
- Experience with Jira, Aha, or Tableau is a plus, as is experience in banking or finance

**Additional Information** Why work at Curinos?**
- Competitive benefits, including a range of Financial, Health and Lifestyle benefits to choose from
- Flexible working options, including home working, flexible hours and part time options, depending on the role requirements - please ask
- Competitive annual leave, floating holidays, volunteering days and a day off for your birthday
- Learning and development tools to assist with your career development
- Work with industry leading Subject Matter Experts and specialist products
- Regular social events and networking opportunities
- Collaborative, supportive culture, including an active DE&I program
- Employee Assistance Program which provides expert third-party advice on wellbeing, relationships, legal and financial matters, as well as access to counselling services

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