CreditSights Product Owner

CreditSights is searching for a Product Owner who will play a crucial role in the development and success of our product offerings. This role involves working closely with the Product Manager and cross-functional teams to drive the product lifecycle from ideation to launch. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of product management principles, excellent communication skills, and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences.

What We Offer:

• Benefit from online and in-person bespoke training program provided by Fitch Group
• Work on a day-to-day basis with highly experienced finance lawyers, salespeople, and other professionals

We’ll Count on You To:

• Product Development: Assist in the development and execution of the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to ensure successful product delivery.
• Backlog Management: Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring that it is up-to-date and reflects the current business priorities.
• User Stories: Develop detailed user stories and establish acceptance criteria to ensure stories are ready for development.
• Agile Ceremonies: Run agile ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Feature Validation: Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to validate that stories meet the definition of done and acceptance criteria.
• Customer Interaction: Discuss features with customers, focusing on usability, time to value, feature completeness, and the overall user journey.
• Prototyping and Testing: Collaborate with engineering and design to prototype features, conduct A/B testing, and validate designs with end users.
• Issue Resolution: Handle issues with current features and provide solutions based on customer feedback.
• Performance Monitoring: Track and analyze product performance metrics e.g. team productivity, product adoption, feature performance. This role would focus on collection, analysis, and reporting as well as implementing improvements at the squad level.

What You Need to Have:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. MBA is a plus.
• Experience: 2+ years of experience in product management, product development, or a related role.
• Technical Skills: Familiarity with Agile methodologies, experience with product management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello), and basic understanding of software development. Experience with AI technologies is a plus.
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make data-driven decisions e.g. familiarity with performance metrics like DORA.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly.
• Team Player: Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Customer-Centric: 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 Fitch?

At Fitch Group, the combined power of our global perspectives is what differentiates us. Our global network of colleagues comes together to accomplish things greater than they ever could alone.

Every team member is essential to our business and each perspective is critical to our success. We embrace a diverse culture that encourages a free exchange of ideas, guaranteeing your voice will be heard and your work will have an impact, regardless of seniority.

We are building incredible things at Fitch and we invite you to join us on our journey.

Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Wholly owned by the Hearst Corporation, we are comprised of three main businesses: Fitch Ratings | Fitch Solutions | Fitch Learning.

For more information please visit our websites:  

www.fitchratings.com | www.fitchsolutions.com | www.fitchlearning.com

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 interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest.

Fitch Group 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 ROLES ONLY: Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $100,000 and $140,000 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. 

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