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Ninth Wave, Inc.

Project Manager

Location: New York, NY

Role Overview

Ninth Wave is seeking a seasoned, passionate, and adaptable Product Manager with a passion for building the future of Open Finance, who can help us expand the capabilities of our financial data platform and drive new business and market share. In this role, you will define strategy and priorities, and deliver the roadmap, for orchestration and onboarding of Ninth Wave clients. You will partner with teams such as Marketing, Technology, and Sales, to deliver value that directly contributes to the success of our company. This role is ideal for a hands-on individual contributor who can work across teams and functions to influence other product areas. You have a real passion for using technology to build solutions to challenging problems, for bold decision-making, and for innovation that enjoys being challenged and being part of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive team, and seeks every opportunity to learn. The role requires someone comfortable with operating in a highly dynamic environment, who thrives on navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop the product vision, strategy, roadmap and will communicate that vision and roadmap across the organization.

• Own performance against key business metrics and will proactively report progress against those goals to the relevant stakeholders.

• Own features and experiments end-to-end, including writing product specs, driving cross-functional execution, ensuring the right go to market plans are in place, and sharing insights and results throughout the company.

• Define strategy and drive customer and consumer experience.

• Authority on your product area, and will consult with industry experts to ensure our practices and policies are keeping up with the latest developments and ensure product compliance with relevant consumer privacy and financial services regulations

• Partner with Product Marketing to develop and/or enhance sales collateral

• Conduct market research and analyze and size market opportunities and/or existing program/use case performance, to help the team prioritize use cases and drive revenue

• Competitive tracking and analysis / positioning

• Manage/support development of business cases

• Define business requirements for product enhancements, new use cases and features

• Work with and support customer sales

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human computer Interaction or related discipline, master’s degree preferred

• 10+ years of experience in a product management role, preferably in a SaaS/FinTech environment, and 5+ years of experience in product leadership

• Experience with developing new business models

• Excellent analytical, financial modeling and problem-solving skills

• Understanding of end user and client experience, and data sharing capabilities.

• An ability to work collaboratively with key stakeholders from go-to-market to policy, legal to security, and more. You build support for your ideas by default but can drive hard decisions when needed.

• You can take rough themes and ideas big and small, and turn them into a roadmap of fixes, new features, experiments, requirements, and research in service of a larger vision.

• You are comfortable and skilled at communicating to and gaining traction with audiences of all sizes, from executive meetings with our CEO, to customer meetings, to company all-hands and external events.

• You create written communication that is clear, concise and effective, and can individualize for different audiences.

• The ability to work collaboratively, especially with Engineering, Implementation and Operations teams

• Ability to work on and manage multiple projects and initiatives concurrently

• Positive attitude and self-motivated with a proven track record of delivering success while operating within a matrixed and team environment

• Solid understanding of competitive offering and industry trends

• Comply with the Company’s in-office work policy

Preferred skills and experience

• Previous experience working with developer, infrastructure, or cloud technologies

• Creative experience (video, graphics, etc.)

• Experience creating and running A/B and CRO tests on content engagement, including sharing recommendation of data-driven changes

• Practical understanding of the APIs for Google Analytics, Google Search Console, AdWords, Twitter and LinkedIn Marketing preferred

• Experience with marketing automation software platforms like Pardot, Hubspot, AutoPilot, etc.

• Content ideation and trend identification tools, e.g., Buzzsumo, Google Trends, Mention, Brand24, etc.

• Website and analytics platforms

• Marketing data integration, visualization and reporting platforms

• Native content platforms

Company Overview

Ninth Wave is a permission-based SaaS platform that delivers secure data connectivity to financial institutions, offering configurable controls, visibility, and insights into all connections between aggregators, third-party apps, and internal applications. Ninth Wave empowers financial institutions, enabling secure data exchange in a holistic and scalable open finance ecosystem.