Product Manager

About Coalition Greenwich

Coalition Greenwich builds analytics and business intelligence products that are integral to how the world's largest corporate and investment banks, asset & wealth managers and fintechs measure, plan and improve their businesses. These products include market analysis and benchmarking against peers on market share, revenue performance, client relationship share and quality, operational excellence, return on equity, brand perception, behavioural drivers, and analysis on industry evolution. Our customers include all of the largest financial institutions, and we are the market leader in our space. Coalition Greenwich is a division of CRISIL, a $5bn market cap global analytics and research company which is majority owned by S&P Global.

About the Strategic Initiatives function

Strategic Initiatives is a newly formed function with a mandate to build, partner or licence both internally across the S&P Group, or externally in the market to form the engine of growth for the organisation. This covers both existing markets where we are active, but also into new areas or adjacent markets where the same set of characteristics offer us a right to win with a differentiated value proposition.

About The Role

We are looking for someone to (in)validate hypotheses, prioritise and build first-contracted-dollar MVPs for a pipeline of possible strategic initiatives, as well as build a repeatable and improving methodology with this to keep the pipeline filled.

What The Job Involves

• Reporting to the Chief Product Officer and a dotted line to the Head of Strategic Initiatives, you will:
• Design-by-doing a framework to assess, validate and prioritise potential opportunities for growth to help the firm with prioritising their investments.
• For the chosen initiatives, define the product vision, roadmap, and validated value propositions.
• Working with the subject matter expert in each initiative, build and deploy GTM strategies.
• In time, own the P&L for one of the identified opportunities, including clear project plans, timelines, investment, budgets, priorities and performance metrics.
• Proactively manage the development of the software through our Agile process and reactively troubleshooting and problem-solving issues.
• Develop and utilize data-driven insights to inform decision making, measure progress and adjust strategies as needed.
• Assist a wider team who own other transformation initiatives and product management responsibilities across technology, data science, operations, governance and risk.
• Work with the Chief Product Officer to help design, develop, implement and evangelise product management frameworks, tools and processes across the entire business.

Requirements

• You have significant experience in early stage B2B product management with a demonstrable track record in shipping products as part of a large team.
• You have demonstrable experience in getting stuff moving and having the end results delivered in a large, complex organisation.
• You have a deep understanding of the nuances of building enterprise software product for large financial services organisations.
• You have a proven ability to think strategically, develop a vision and translate it into actionable plans which result in tangible value.
• You have strong, organized project management skills with a track record of successfully leading and delivering complex initiatives.
• You have a proficiency in data analysis and the demonstrable ability to use data to inform decision making.
• You have excellent client-facing interpersonal skills and excel at traversing from high-level concepts to low-level technical detail across highly complex systems.

Nice-To-Have

• You have experience in strategy.
• You have a Bachelors degree in business, management, a technical discipline or a related field.
• A masters degree or MBA is preferred.
• You have experience in capital markets, investment banking, corporate or institutional banking, or in data or benchmarking analytics.
• You have a good understanding of the concepts and real-world applications of data architecture, transactional and analytical database design concepts and data analytics systems.
• A history of successfully working with geographically and culturally diverse teams on large projects.
• Strong PowerPoint skills.
• Familiarity with UX design using Figma.

Ideal Profile

You graduated with a degree in computer science or finance, moving into financial services directly or through a strategy role. Your inquisitive nature and obsession with the human in the process pulled you to product management. Having understood how the industry works, you found yourself frustrated with the pace of adoption and moved into B2B start-ups, either as a Founder or early employee. Now that you've succeeded in shipping product into customers' hands multiple times and with a wealth of experience of what to do, when to do it and what works in which situation, you're looking for an opportunity to deploy these skills at scale.

What We Can Offer

• A competitive base salary and variable annual bonus.
• A flexible hybrid working policy. Most people come into the office 2-3 days/week.
• A healthy work-life balance. Most people have been here over 6 years.
• A low-politics working environment. Everyone gets on, but we're not a "family". We're all interested in getting good work done.
• 25 days annual leave, plus public holidays.
• Private medical cover for you and your family.
• Travel opportunities.
• A modern office near Old St.

The Application Process

Apply with a 1-2 page CV. If you really want this role, make sure you address the requirements within your experience. We get a lot of applications and we're only able to contact shortlisted candidates. If you haven't heard from us within a fortnight, it's likely we've moved forward with other applicants this time.

An initial ~30 minute video call with someone on the Product team and someone on the Strategic Initiatives team to cover your most relevant experience.

A take-home challenge that should take you no more than one hour. This will be delivered in an interactive and collaborative 60 minute face-to-face or video session with someone in the technology or product team. We'll let you know whether you're progressing to the next round within 2 weeks.

A final 45 minute hybrid panel interview with a small group of your potential peers. We'll let you know if you're successful within 10 days. Step 3 and/or step 4 will be in-person.