Publicis Sapient - Associate Director/Director - Product Management

Job Summary :

As an Associate Director / Director within the Product Management practice you will help our clients develop and execute their business and product strategy working closely with client leadership and Publicis Sapient delivery teams to assume the role of the client's trusted advisor.

Key Responsibilities :

- Understand client business problems and propose solutions; work with other product managers, analysts, engineers, and creative team members to ideate, build, test and launch new features

- Support business proposals leveraging your industry experience and by collaborating with global teams & other practices

- Demonstrate entrepreneurial drive and lead/ideate new initiatives within the product management practice

- Play a mentor role within the product management community to ensure constant learning and improvement

General Experience Guidelines :

- Overall, 15+ years of relevant experience in digital product management / business strategy

- Strong analytical skills

- Excellent stakeholder management skills with strong presentation and communication skills

- Experience working with stakeholders in distributed geographies

Apart from the above, we are looking to hire someone with a deep mix of the following three areas :

1. Financial Services Industry Experience

2. Product Thinking Craft & Mindset

3. Digital Business Transformation Experience

- Financial Services Industry Experience

- Deep financial services industry experience across one or more of the following areas :

- Retail Banking - Asset and Liability products, Cards, Payments

- Commercial Banking - Commercial Lending, Trade Finance, Payments/cash Management and Cards, Forex Services

- Investment Banking - M&A, Advisory, Structured Products, Markets across various asset classes etc.

- Wealth Management - Asset Management, Insurance, Estate Planning

- Risk Management - Credit Risk, Market Risk, Financial Crime Risk (Anti-Money Laundering, Know Your Customer etc.), Risk Analytics

- Regulatory and Compliance - knowledge of relevant regulatory and compliance requirements covering the above areas

- Industry certifications such as CFA, FRM etc. is a plus

- Product Thinking Craft & Mindset

Expertise in leading product teams with lean agile mindset :

- Ability to apply startup business models, value frameworks, prioritization methodology to generate, design and test new ideas for front to back transformation

- Good experience with leveraging Agile practices for incremental product/solution development at an enterprise level working with multidisciplinary agile teams comprising product managers, marketers, finance, creative, analytics and engineering

- Knowledge of Agile methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum, Kanban etc. with relevant agile certifications such as SAFe SPC / SAFe PMPO / CSPO etc

Digital Business Transformation Experience :

Digital Business Transformation experience to deliver measurable outcomes :

- Business performance and industry analysis - covering product vision, business strategy, competitive landscape, business and marketing strategy, customer experience etc.

- Exposure to digital technology trends and evolving landscapes - AI/Machine Learning/Analytics , Cloud Adoption, Blockchain, Mobile Apps, RPA etc.

- Customer journey transformation - voice of customer, design thinking and service design

- Digital innovation, maturity analysis and problem solving leveraging data driven insights

- Operating model designs covering business process design, optimization and change planning

- Experience with design and development of new digital banks working/partnering with product firms, fintechs is a plus