Associate Product Development Manager

Proxymity; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

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Proxymity does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Proxymity encourages application from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

About Proxymity

Proxymity is a market leading digital investor communications platform focused on providing regulatory compliant products focused initially on Proxy Voting and Shareholder Disclosure services. Founded in London and spun out of Citi, from the very beginning our mission focused on benefitting the whole capital markets ecosystem, rather than just one part or one player within it. This ethos is endorsed by investment from global consortium of some the industry's most influential financial institutions.

Proxymity's service offering is now a Global one, matching the needs of our custodian and broker community respectively. This is reflected by a fast-growing client base who have long desired an improved service by a trusted vendor. As a result, we are a fast-growth company and have already gone from 10 to 200+ employees in the last four years with a global footprint in London, New York, Tel-Aviv, Malaysia and Melbourne.

The Product Development teams are dedicated to delivering value to Proxymity and its clients by developing and maintaining the award-winning Proxymity investor communication platform. A Product Development Manager plays a pivotal role in product development at Proxymity. The purpose of the role is to develop and implement new products as well as ensure competitiveness through continuous improvement of Proxymity's existing product range. Working as part of a cross-functional Product Development team, you will help to drive the product development direction, requirements and priorities.

This will typically involve:

Efficient development management:

• Work closely with Product Managers and Head of Software Delivery to understand the bigger picture product goals and translate them into well-defined requirements that the team's developers can then turn into high-quality working software as part of a fast-paced, iterative, software development lifecycle.
• Produce detailed product documentation with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Head of Software Delivery to curate the team's backlog of work and refine tickets required for upcoming sprints in line with the Scrum-based methodology.
• Set the team's sprint goals and manage competing priorities as part of delivering larger product initiatives.
• Contribute to continuous product process improvement.

Effective stakeholder management:

• Build strong working relationships with technical stakeholders including developers and testers to promote collaboration and to ensure projects run effectively.
• Facilitate effective communication with key stakeholders through regular progress updates.
• Work with the Product Managers and provide product expertise and support responding to product-related enquiries from technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, ability to confidently explain product development requirements to software developers and Test Associates.
• Strong organisation, time and project management skills.
• Executing in a high-pressure scaleup environment: prioritise and manage time well and respond effectively to time constraints.
• A motivated forward-planner who can organise their own time and work schedule so that work flows effectively to the team.
• The ability to work with senior stakeholders and product managers to understand the higher-level product goals and confidently create detailed requirements to achieve the strategic product goals.
• A team player who can provide the support that their product engineering teammates need whilst working across the broader product function to co-ordinate work on complex projects and programs of work with other product development managers and product managers.
• A fast learner who can understand complex business processes and domains and takes the initiative in acquiring knowledge needed to get the job done.
• An innovator's mindset: excited about creating products that reinvent the industry by transforming existing processes and capabilities.

Desirable Requirements:

• Custody and proxy voting industry experience.
• Solid understanding and experience in applying Scrum techniques and artefacts (e.g. definition of done, epics, user stories, backlog refinement etc) on product development initiatives.
• Strong Jira skills including producing dashboards, managing dependencies and integrating with Confluence.
• Proven track record of delivering complex projects and product initiatives involving multiple teams.

Benefits

• Headspace subscription.
• Birthday off in addition to annual leave.
• Access to Absorb Learning.
• Improved family-friendly policies.
• Hybrid working.
• Choose your tech.
• 2 duvet days a year.
• 1 volunteer day a year.
• 4-week sabbatical after 4 years at Proxymity.
• Workation- Our Workation policy means you can work anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per calendar year.
• A dog friendly office with snacks and free drinks.
• Companywide social events x2 per year.
• Regular team social events.
• A company wins programme.
• Companywide panels on variety of subjects like diversity and inclusion, mental health, wellbeing etc.

To assist us with evolving our DEI efforts and ensuring our process is as inclusive as possible, we will be sending out a brief diversity and inclusion survey for you to complete if you choose to apply for this position. This will be completely anonymous and is in no way tied to your application. If you could please take a few minutes out of your day to complete this that would be much appreciated.