Junior Product Manager

Aiviq is a cutting-edge fintech company revolutionising financial services and asset management. We empower the world's leading asset managers with data-driven insights and innovative technology solutions. Our cloud-based platform transforms complex financial data into actionable intelligence, addressing critical challenges in client data quality and insights.

As a Junior Product Manager at Aiviq, you will play a crucial role in our product development process, collaborating with the brightest technologists in the industry. This position is ideal for recent graduates or early-career professionals who are eager to learn and grow in product management within a dynamic fintech environment.

You will work alongside our exceptional engineering, quality control, and product teams, leveraging a modern, cloud-based tech stack and integrating cutting-edge technologies to solve complex challenges for the world's largest asset managers. We are looking for curious, analytical minds who embrace modern ways of working, including AI-assisted workflows, to enhance their productivity and impact.

What you will be doing:

• Gather and analyse user feedback, product usage data and other inputs to support decision-making and track team objectives.
• Conduct market research with some oversight and guidance, distilling information for meaning and documentation for team use.
• Capture trends, priorities, and pain points from customer or stakeholder interactions and interviews.
• Define personal success metrics for day-to-day role, reporting on progress to line manager and finding ways to improve metrics.
• Distil a range of inputs and produce presentation materials and analysis that supports strategic decision-making with limited supervision.
• Act as the 'voice of product', articulating the strategic roadmap and prioritisation rationale to internal stakeholders.
• Assist with low-level backlog prioritisation utilising leading frameworks.
• Write simple user stories that clearly address well-written problem statements, including appropriate acceptance criteria.
• Present user stories at sprint refinement and articulate them so the whole team is aware of the problem.
• Identify execution risks and assumptions and address them with line manager oversight.
• Assist with Scrum Master duties, including sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Collate release notes for internal and external audiences that clearly articulate the release value and technical nature of changes in line with documentation standards.

Domain Expertise & Thought Leadership:

• Quickly build or extend knowledge of Financial Services and, in particular, Asset Management, identifying and completing structured and unstructured learning to close gaps.
• Demonstrate a high-level understanding of the Aiviq product proposition to internal team members.
• Work collaboratively in cross-functional teams, engaging with as many Aiviq team members as possible.
• Create wireframes using Figma to support user story development.
• Ask questions, read around the subject, and work with your line manager to identify relevant structured courses to gain experience and confidence quickly.

What you will need:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Keen interest in technology and financial services.
• Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment, embracing modern tools and AI-assisted workflows.
• Basic understanding of software development processes (preferred).

Desirable Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Evidence of self-directed or structured qualifications in domains such as Product Management, User Research, SCRUM/Agile, Data Analysis.
• Evidence of self-directed or structured qualifications in financial services and asset management (e.g., IMC, CFA, CIMA, ACCA).
• Vocational or professional experience (work experience/internships/analyst programmes) within a relevant sector or industry.

What we offer:

• Growth opportunities in a supportive, collaborative environment.
• Exposure to cutting-edge fintech, cloud-based technologies, and AI-augmented workflows.
• Work on critical data quality challenges for leading asset managers.
• Mentorship from experienced product managers.
• Competitive salary, benefits, and flexible working arrangements.
• Clear career progression pathway in a growing fintech company.