Associate Director, Product Management - Financial Services

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

As Associate Director, Product Management at Publicis Sapient, you will act as your clients’ trusted advisor in leading the overall business solution, vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for a specific digital product, or products, within engagements with Financial Services customers. You will collaborate with clients undertaking major Digital Business Transformation (DBT) engagements to understand their business, end-customer needs, and then constantly deliver value with fast increment cycles.

You'll partner with client(s), strategists, experience leads, and enterprise architects, to frame business goals and value streams from which we can shape solution propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience.

You'll also build and develop large solution vision that aligns with the product vision, strategy, and industry compliance, by keeping customer at the center of everything we do while using design thinking tools.

As part of your role, you will also inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services.

• Deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles that maximize the flow of value with a passion to extend this understanding throughout the organization
• Demonstrated success creating large solutions, digital products vision, strategy, experience, and services - from capability identification, ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality
• Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services
• Proven ability in collaborating and leading Program Increment (PI) cycles
• Significant industry knowledge and expertise within the financial services industry, including banking products including, but not limited to, commercial banking and mortgages
• Proven ability to prioritize multiple demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
• Practice inworkshop facilitation to cultivate ideation
• Ability to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts, with success leveraging data to make decisions about product feature increments
• Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholders and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value
• Mastery in leading change and inspiring others to change behaviors
• An influencer in continuous learning and innovation
• Fluent in German language

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
• Certified Agile Product Manager designation