Product Manager
Nutmeg is the UK’s largest truly digital wealth manager, offering clarity and transparency to both seasoned and first-time investors as they seek to achieve their financial goals. Launched in September 2012, Nutmeg now manages over £4.5bn on behalf of over 200,000 clients who have sought the powerful combination of an easy-to-use, adaptable investment service and market-leading human advice. Nutmeg is a J.P. Morgan company offering investments and digital wealth management services to consumers, complementing Chase’s digital bank in the UK.
At a time when people are seeking the closer relationship with money that technology can provide, Nutmeg:
- Has a team of over 240 employees
- Offers award winning stocks and shares ISA, Junior ISAs and Lifetime ISAs, as well as a personal pensions and general investment accounts
- Provides financial planning and advice alongside our award-winning client services team
Job in a nutshell:
We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to join our team. You will take ownership of a team responsible for creating a phenomenal customer experience with flexible, adaptable, and customer-focused journeys.
You will have a development team around you to ensure you are able to operate autonomously to define and deliver your roadmap in continuous cycles of dual-track Discovery-Delivery sprints.
You will work in a highly collaborative way within the Product team and across the organisation to successfully deliver strategically aligned product development whilst aiming to exceed your set KPIs.
Responsibilities:
- Become the go-to person for your domain assuming a highly visible role within the company as the subject matter expert
- Demonstrate commercial acumen by building strong business cases that define the product’s success criteria
- Build strong and collaborative relationships across different departments, including internal teams (e.g. Product and Engineering, Compliance, Operations and Investments) and with our external partners
- Define and manage a highly organised roadmap and supporting backlog to ensure your team is delivering products that will most positively impact customers and the business
- Be passionate about the Product Development process, always striving to improve how products are built to ensure teams operate to their maximum effectiveness and efficiency
- Promote innovation in product design, always being mindful of, and working within, the framework of a strong financial compliance regime
- Take ultimate responsibility for product decisions, and be prepared to justify those decisions to all levels in the business
- Support and motivate the Engineering teams with clear and achievable deliverables
- Run assigned agile teams through iterative Discovery and Delivery sprint cycles
- Participate in agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, planning meetings, retrospectives
- Balance business and technical objectives and translate these as clear priorities for the Engineering team
- Be the glue among departments and create shared understanding by translating ideas & concepts into technical or layman’s terms
Your skills:
- Product Management experience
- Proven track record of successfully building wealth management products, familiarity with brokerage and mutual funds end-to-end lifecycle
- Experience working in the delivery of large, complex digital product initiatives with cross-team dependencies
- Experience with software delivery best practices, working with technical product requirements and mapping of dependencies, design of minimum viable products, working with multi-country requirements
- Explaining technical issues in a clear way to the business and other stakeholders
- Ability to analyse and incorporate user needs, business needs, and technical constraints/opportunities into the product development process
You might also have:
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical/ numerical discipline