Principal Product Manager

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management, the Product Manager will be responsible for the delivery of the " Lower tier/Bilateral lending" roadmap to enable Loan IQ to expand functionality to cover lower tier banks and dedicated SME lenders within EMEA and ASIA regions. As a Product Manager, you will manage life cycles of assigned products or services within our lending solutions portfolio to optimize profit and meet client expectations, marketing, financial, and corporate growth objectives. This includes business case development, market research, development of product marketing strategies, advertising, promotion, and strategies associated with new and existing products(s).

• Develop and deliver the "Lower Tier" product roadmap across EMEA and ASIA regions, ensuring alignment with the overall platform business strategy

• Gain a deep understanding of the customer experience, identify and fill product gaps related to bilateral lending market, generate new ideas that grow market share, and drive net new name growth.
• Manage the entire product lifecycle from strategic planning through go-to-market for this segment.
• Identifies product market opportunities through market research, customer profiling, needs analysis, market sizing and competitive analysis.
• Serves as the key contact for product questions in this segment and new product ideas which surface from customers, sales, or market research.
• Identifies and analyzes critical issues related to the product design and promotion of the product(s).
• Translates lower tier / bilateral lending product strategy into recommendations and feature definition to address market opportunities.
• Provides overall direction for product enhancements and general product development requirements.
• Works with product marketing department to develop effective communication activities and programs including product positioning and collateral development
• Lead product focus groups with clients and other subject matter experts as required.
• Lead user conference sessions on general industry topics, engage in press/industry panel/speaker activities related to this product segment.
• Develop and implement methods and procedures for monitoring projects such as preparation of records of expenditures and research findings, progress reports and staff conferences, in order to inform management of current project status.
• Develops proper and thorough documentation (internal and external) describing enhancements as appropriate.
• Identifies continuous improvement opportunities for Product Management processes.

• 8+ years of exposure/experience of SME lending systems and lower tier business workflows in European/Asian markets
• 8+ years of Corporate Lending experience within the financial sector
• Understanding of Loan IQ system (preferred but not essential)
• Experience working with project management software application analysis, design or implementation (knowledge of project management principles).
• Proven track record of product management accomplishments and initiatives with demonstrated success in product launches and end-to-end execution of marketing strategies.
• Consumer lending operations, credit policy, and/or mortgage banking, financial institution product management experience preferred.