Product Manager

CreditSights is currently seeking a Product Manager based out of our New York City office.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, CreditSights continues to offer award-winning, unbiased research on global credit markets, empowering clients to make informed investment decisions. With offices in New York, London, Singapore, Glasgow, Denver, and Charlotte, we serve a diverse global institutional client base, including banks, investment advisors, mutual funds, and hedge funds. As a leading voice in credit research, our expert insights are featured in top publications such as Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. As a Fitch Solutions Company, CreditSights provides a dynamic environment fostering professional growth and innovation, where you collaborate with seasoned analysts to deliver critical intelligence in complex financial markets.

Working at CreditSights offers the chance to be part of a premier independent credit research firm, renowned for its in-depth analysis and insights. You'll collaborate with a team of seasoned analysts, delivering critical intelligence that helps clients navigate complex financial markets. This dynamic environment encourages professional growth and innovation, enabling you to make a meaningful impact in the field of credit research.

About The Team
The Product Manager will play a pivotal role in the strategic planning, development, and execution of our product offerings. This role involves leading cross-functional teams to drive the product lifecycle from conception through launch and beyond. The ideal candidate will possess strong product management experience, excellent communication skills, and a deep understanding of market dynamics and customer needs.

How You'll Make An Impact
Strategic Planning and Roadmap Development:

• Product Vision: Define and communicate the product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and market demands.
• Roadmap Management: Develop and maintain the product roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on business objectives and customer feedback.

Product Development And Execution

• Requirement Gathering: Gather high-level requirements, group them logically by initiative or epic, sequence, and prioritize. These epics should be ready for further breakdown by the product owner and squad members.
• Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to ensure cohesive product development and successful product delivery.
• Agile Processes: Lead agile processes, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives, to ensure timely and high-quality product releases.

Market And Customer Engagement

• Customer Interaction: Engage with customers to understand their needs, gather feedback, and ensure product features meet market demands.
• Market Research: Conduct market research to identify trends, opportunities, and competitive threats.
• Go-to-Market Strategy: Develop and execute go-to-market strategies, including product launches, marketing campaigns, and sales enablement activities.

Performance Monitoring And Continuous Improvement

• Metrics Analysis: Track and analyze product performance metrics to inform future development and ensure continuous improvement.
• Issue Resolution: Address and resolve issues with current products, providing timely solutions based on customer feedback.

Organizational Management

• Talent Development: Identify and develop talent within the product team, ensuring that the team structure supports strategic goals.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with executive leadership, Chapter leads, and centers of excellence to ensure alignment and remove blockers.
• Budget Management: Manage the product budget, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and tracking capitalized projects.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure all product releases meet quality standards and maintain ongoing service levels.

You May Be a Good Fit If

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field. MBA is a plus.
• Experience: 7+ years of experience in product management, preferably within the FinTech or financial services industry.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency with Agile methodologies, product management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello), and a solid understanding of software development.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of articulating complex ideas clearly and effectively.
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Customer-Centric: Deep passion for understanding and addressing customer needs.
• Preferred Experience: Experience in financial information services industry, familiarity with UX/UI principles and design thinking, and experience working with remote teams.

Why Choose Fitch

• Hybrid Work Environment: 2 to 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location
• A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
• Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals
• Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
• Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
• Inclusive Work Environment : A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued, with Employee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
• Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch's credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interest or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

FOR NEW YORK AND CHICAGO ROLES ONLY:
Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $160,000 and $190,000 per year. Actual salaries will be determined on an individualized basis and may vary based on factors including but not limited to education, training, experience, past performance, and other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of Fitch's total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, long-term incentives, and other benefits sponsored by Fitch.