Overview
This role offers a unique opportunity to engage in a significant technology transformation for a private equity-backed financial services organization. As a Product Management Consultant, you'll collaborate with senior leaders, including the CTO and COO, to establish a sustainable product operating model that empowers the business to prioritize product delivery based on value, while embracing Agile methodologies. You will play a crucial part in coaching staff and impacting how technology decisions are made, ensuring lasting change beyond your engagement.
Responsibilities
- Build and embed a Product Operating Model across the organisation.
- Coach Product Owners and business stakeholders in modern product management practices.
- Translate business capabilities into prioritised product backlogs and work packages.
- Introduce value stream-led ways of working across business and technology teams.
- Facilitate backlog prioritisation, sprint planning, and product governance.
- Ensure technology delivery is aligned to measurable business outcomes.
- Work alongside Architecture and Delivery teams to shape future platform capabilities.
- Assess current Product Owner and Business Analyst capability and recommend future organizational design.
Requirements
- Significant experience as a Product Manager, Head of Product, or Product Consultant.
- Proven track record in building or transforming Product Management capability within complex organisations.
- Experience leading product operating model or Agile transformation initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with a history of influencing C-suite executives.
- Background in Financial Services, FinTech, or other regulated environments.
- Thorough understanding of Agile delivery, value streams, and product-led organisations.
- Highly desirable experience in FS/capital markets.
- Familiarity with introducing AI-enabled products or digital capabilities, and knowledge of business capability modelling or value stream mapping.