Senior Product Manager

Job Description

The Pismo Lending Group is responsible for building a world class API-based Lending Product that manages the entire lifecycle of loans from its simulation until its completion. With a special focus on product creation and lifecycle management, our Lending Product aims to offer a competitive advantage in being innovative and agile to a variety of financial institution customers. The product leverages best-in-class technology assets in building a cloud-native microservices platform, offering our customers the most technologically advanced solution in lending thereby driving innovation, and business growth. 

As part of the Pismo Lending Group, we are looking for a dynamic Product Manager / Owner who will be reporting to the Group Product Manager and working closely with Product Specialist in the UK. The Product Manager / Owner should have worked in the lending domain and is comfortable working in the areas of APIs and cloud-based platforms. 

What You'll Do: 

- Understand business requirements from a variety of stakeholders 
- Evaluate, map, record intakes and requirements that can deliver value for the Lending platform target customer segments 

-Generate artifacts that convert intakes into clear and concise requirements (User Stories, Customer Journeys, Workflows, One Pagers, Presentations, Spreadsheets...). 
- Maintain product backlog and roadmap organised according to prioritisation from market, business and internal demands - seeking to optimize delivery of value to customers (current and future) and to Pismo. 
- Build quarterly milestones for the product roadmap and ensure timely delivery. 
- Participate in testing and validating features built for the lending product. 
- Drive communications and alignments with Engineers, QA Analysts, Product Specialists, Pre-Sales, Sales and Customers. 
- Exercise self-directed leadership within the lending team. 
- Be the go-to person for the functional capabilities of the Lending platform  

This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice. 

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Qualifications

Basic qualifications

• The candidate needs to be based in the UK

• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor`s Degree  

• At least 2 years of working experience in a Lending Product such as Personal Loans, BNPL, Car Loans or Mortgages.  

• Previous experience in an agile environment (familiarity with Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Miro and other commonly used Agile tools) 

• Working knowledge of APIs, Postman and AWS cloud computing 

• Experience working closely with technology teams and a variety of internal and external stakeholders 

• Experience with functional tests 

• Great Communication Skills 

• Willingness to Learn and to Teach 

• Native English / Up to C1 English (Advanced) 

Prefered Qualifications 

• Previous experience as Platform Product Manager or Technical Product Manager 

• Worked in Global Core Banking/Lending Environments