Product Manager

Why Stifel

Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole.

Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

What You'll Be Doing

Product management is the role and function within the organization that is responsible for a product's overall success. The Product Manager is responsible for identifying the client's needs, understanding the larger business objectives, and analyzing this information to create a product roadmap that will deliver the highest value and outcomes. The Product Manager articulates what success looks like for a product, and encourages cross functional teams to turn the vision into reality. The Product Manager will drive product adoption, engagement, and customer satisfaction by prioritizing, managing, and creating new features. This position is responsible for the continuous cycle of the product from concept to promotion while continuously listening and exploring.

What We're Looking For

• Work with agile and non-agile development, engineering, design, data, marketing, business stakeholders, vendors, and support teams to create and deliver features for our customers.
• Define and clearly communicate to cross functional teams the high-level mission, vision, and roadmap.
• Prioritize new features based on customer's needs in alignment with the Firm's strategy, goals, and technical capabilities.
• Perform user research and data analytics to form hypotheses and translate product requirements.
• Collaborate with designers to translate the product requirements into wireframes and high-fidelity designs while keeping the customer experience in mind.
• Lead cross-functional teams to collaborate and communicate across the Firm.
• Work with design, development, and engineering to build A/B/C tests that validate hypotheses, and use relevant data to suggest further product improvements.
• Define Leading Indicators, KPIs, and metrics to measure the success of the features and experiences put into the market.
• Apply agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined Scaled Agile Framework that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation of ongoing work.
• Utilize qualitative and quantitative customer and industry data to test hypotheses and identify consumer needs while creating and validating potential solutions.
• Foster communication and collaboration with Senior Business Leaders and their teams to create a clear and transparent product roadmap that aligns with the Firm's goals and top priorities.
• Some travel by car and/or air in conjunction with local, regional, and/or national travel, up to 30%.

What You'll Bring

• Ability to manage and develop products with demonstrable and measurable results.
• Proven experience making tough, non-biased, decisions backed by user research, data analytics, A/B experimentation, user testing, competitors and marketing analysis, and metrics.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to find, analyze, and distill data into actionable insights
• Ability to communicate with all levels and types of people, in all types of communication methods, ensuring they completely understand decisions and directions.
• Solid understanding of technical problems; how to break down the work involved in solving them, and the impact of those decisions on engineering and the organization.
• Experience with Kanban, the Scaled Agile Framework, Agile, or Scrum processes.
• Ability to gather and listen to information in order to make a constructive, unbiased decisions considering overarching Firm strategy, goals, policies, and procedures.
• Proven understanding of database, with the ability to read and write basic SQL.
• Previous experience working in Wealth Management & Market Data Platforms.   
• Experience with FactSet and/or Beta Nxt is a plus.   

Education & Experience

• Minimum Required: Bachelor's Degree in related field
• Minimum Required: 7+ years' experience in finance, technology, analysis, leadership or product ownership or management

Licenses & Credentials

• Minimum Required: None

Systems & Technology

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Jira

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About Stifel

Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up.  We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas.  Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.

While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations.  Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more.  Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.