Senior Product Manager - BFSI - IIM/MDI/ISB/FMS

Job Summary:

As a Senior Product Manager you will be managing client engagements from a business side, and working directly with the clients and/or India teams to shape the vision of the business into a reality. In this role, you will help our clients develop and execute their product strategy working closely with client leadership and Publicis Sapient delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities:

- Work closely with the clients to understand their problem statements and propose solutions

- Manage multiple stakeholders throughout the engagement/product lifecycle

- Support and lead client workshops/elicitation sessions

- Have an excellent command over Requirement Management using tools e.g. Jira or similar

- Have proven hands-on experience driving the development of software products at Enterprise scale

- Have experience in planning and prioritization of product feature backlog and development for the product

- Have the ability to define product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities

- Can assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy

- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories & defining acceptance criteria.

- Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI

- Lead the planning product release plans and set expectations for the delivery of new functionalities

- Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

- Research and analyze market, competition, users, and the roadmap for the product

- Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends

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

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

In addition to the above, we love people who,

- Are articulate, with excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Enjoy working in a small team of engineers and product owners

- React quickly and adapt to changes in priorities, circumstances, and direction

- Have the knack of establishing and maintaining effective relationships with colleagues

- Thrive in an environment where you can self-manage your own workload and meet schedules with minimal supervision

Qualifications and Experience Guidelines:

- MBA from a Tier-1 B-School

- Strong analytical skills

- Strong presentation and communication skills

- Excellent stakeholder management skills working with stakeholders in distributed geographies

- Deep industry knowledge of one or more industry verticals such as Retail, CPG, Financial Services, Automotive or Travel & Hospitality

- Overall, 8+ years of relevant experience in digital product management / business strategy

- Relevant Product Management and Agile certifications such as SAFe PMPO / CSPO etc. with good exposure to working with multidisciplinary agile teams comprising product managers, marketers, finance, creative, analytics and engineering

About Our Work and Client Impact:

https://www.publicissapient.com/work