Product Manager APP & API Platform

Company Description

Curinos empowers financial institutions to make better, faster and more profitable decisions through industry-leading proprietary data, technologies and insights. With decades-long expertise in the financial services industry and a relentless focus on the future, Curinos technology and analytics ecosystem allows clients to anticipate customer needs and optimize their go-to market decisions in an increasingly competitive market.

Curinos operates in a hybrid/remote model. This position is based in NYC

Job Description

Curinos is seeking a technical Product Manager to join our Platform team and lead our App & API Platform. The Platform team owns and manages the strategic and technical roadmaps for all Curinos Platforms – the proprietary Product ecosystems upon which our B2B SaaS applications are built. The App/API Platform creates the shared UI & API components, workflows, and integration frameworks that enable our product teams to build scalable and developer friendly products. In this role you will define the vision and roadmap for these foundational capabilities, ensuring scalability, usability, and alignment across our entire product ecosystem.   

This is a high-impact role where you’ll define the vision for shared UI and API capabilities that power innovative fintech solutions.    

You will:

• Empower teams within Curinos to innovate faster by providing a robust, scalable, standards-based platform that reduces complexity and accelerates delivery 

• Build and execute an impact-driven (not feature-focused) product roadmap, working closely with engineering to prioritize initiatives that align with business objectives and solve key client problems

• Conduct key stakeholder interviews and gather feedback across Client Services, Engineering, and Product Management partners from all Curinos Product pods. Develop a deep understanding of the client’s needs and the “jobs to be done” for financial institutions utilizing our products, and for the teams that are building and maintaining these offerings

• Track product metrics and performance data, reporting insights to stakeholders and using them to guide ongoing product iterations

• Identify and address potential barriers to product success, proactively adapting strategies to ensure high impact and profitability

• Create strategy with the leaders in our partner Product Management & Engineering teams who build client facing products upon these Platforms, establishing a one-, three-, and five-year Product and technical vision for the App & API Platform

• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing to develop impactful product messaging, understand market demands, and assist in sales enablement by developing product positioning and talking points for shared cross product Platform capabilities. 

• Partner with Client Success to ensure the product delivers continuous value and exceeds customer expectations

Responsibilities:

• Strategic vision: Define a metrics-driven product roadmap in collaboration with Engineering, prioritizing features and updates that solve cross product client problems and drive revenue growth, increase speed to market, and/or lower support costs

• Collaboration: Engage with pod & business stakeholders to understand their goals, challenges, and key jobs to be done across our suite of products

• Execution: Lead agile planning sessions to keep teams aligned and moving forward, prioritizing work across Engineering, UX, and QA teams

• Continuous improvement: Monitor KPIs and iterate based on performance data

• Market awareness: Stay informed of trends in banking and fintech, incorporating relevant insights into the product strategy

Salary Range: $130,000 to $160,000 (plus bonus)

Qualifications

Desired Skills & Expertise:

• A minimum of 3-5 years of Product Management experience building and scaling B2B SaaS solutions in the Financial Technology space, or adjacent work in Product Operations or Engineering. 

• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute product roadmaps, including competitive analysis, financial modeling, user feedback, and solution ideation

• Experience setting and measuring key business and product metrics and making course corrections based on metric movement

• Demonstrated experience understanding and communicating nuanced ideas to variety of audiences (including client stakeholders and internal technical & non-technical stakeholders) and orienting them to a business strategy

• Microsoft Office 365 proficiency and experience building Excel models and communicating complex ideas through PowerPoint

• Atlassian Jira proficiency and experience creating, grooming, and sizing user stories to build impactful and realistic sprints

• Understanding of front-end architecture, design systems, scalability strategies, and API-driven SaaS platforms 

• Nice-to-have: SQL/Python experience, and experience with Databricks for analytics and troubleshooting 

• Nice-to-have: Banking or adjacent industry experience

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 

Applying: 

We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't meet all the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have relevant skills or experience, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! 

If you need any adjustments to support your application, such as information in alternative formats, special requirements to access our buildings or adjusted interview formats please contact us at [email protected] and we’ll do everything we can to help.

Inclusivity at Curinos: 

We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed.  As such, Curinos is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics.