Lead Product Owner (NY)

Position Title: Lead Product Owner (NY)

Entity: KBRA Holdings

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: New York, New York, United States

Summary/Overview:

KBRA Holdings is seeking a Lead Product Owner to join our Product Management team .This role supports and actively collaborates with our Structured Credit analytical business units and engineering teams to build first class internal and external product offerings.  Position reports to the Senior Director, Group Product Manager and is located in our New York office.

About the Job

As a Lead Product Owner, you will be responsible for the voice of the customer, understanding their challenges and articulating a vision, objectives, and key results to build winning solutions that users enjoy. You should be well versed in concepts such as Product Hypothesis, User Personas, Vision, Go-to-Market, Roadmapping, Prototyping and Product Analytics.

Job Responsibilities:

• Define and set the product vision by mapping customer’s journey and narrowing down problems to focus on.
• Conduct user interviews to truly discover what matters to the users.
• Define user personas to articulate the value proposition.
• Set and prioritize objectives to focus on and identify key results to measure progress towards meeting objectives.
• Partner with stakeholders and business leaders to get buy-in and support to accelerate your product vision.
• Build and maintain effective roadmaps as a tool for communication for others to understand what you are working on and why.
• Maintain a healthy prioritized backlog to meet the needs of the customer.
• Lead an agile team to define and plan sprint goals, this includes writing effective user stories and providing support throughout Sprint to meet commitments.
• Lead the commercialization of our internal ratings tools
• Combine data with your contextual understanding of your business, market, and your users to measure progress towards your objectives. You will utilize the data to make informed decisions about further product iterations.

About You

You are enthusiastic and passionate Lead Product Owner, who can take an idea to launch to future iteration. You are a strategic thinker, adept at product development and capable of leading cross-functional teams to drive the success of our product. You are an energetic and effective communicator who can build strong relationships to help accelerate your vision.

Successful candidates will possess the following:

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree is required
• A minimum of six (6) or more years of work experience as product manager of technology-powered products.
• Financial Services Product Management background. Structured Credit, Structured Finance or Credit Ratings experience is preferred..
• Experience in commercialization/go to market activities of B2B financial products.
• Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and delivery
• Proven ability to build and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders, including executives, team members, customers, and partners.
• Strong negotiation skills to align diverse interests and priorities.

Salary Range:

The anticipated annual base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000 to $190,000. Offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience, skills, geography, and other job-related factors.

Benefits:

• A hybrid work schedule (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in the office)
• Competitive benefits and paid time off
• Paid family and disability leave
• 401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested)
• Educational and professional development financial assistance
• Employee referral bonus program
• Cell phone reimbursement

About Us:

KBRA is a full-service credit rating agency registered in the U.S., the EU and the UK, and is designated to provide structured finance ratings in Canada. KBRA’s ratings can be used by investors for regulatory capital purposes in multiple jurisdictions.

More Info:

KBRA encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, and veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.

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