Product Manager - Senior Vice President

Citigroup Inc.; Chennai; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Citigroup Inc. in Chennai invites an experienced Digital PM Group Manager to lead a team of product managers and cross-disciplinary staff in conceiving, designing, and delivering innovative financial platform products.

You will own the platform vision, roadmap, and requirements, shaping business and product needs into scalable platform solutions while ensuring risk controls and regulatory compliance. This full-time role requires 10+ years of experience, strong strategic and communication skills,

Qualifications

• Experience leading product or platform teams
• Strong strategy and roadmap skills
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication
• Ability to balance business needs with technical trade-offs
• Experience delivering financial platform products
• Data-driven decision making and metrics focus

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Product Managers and cross-disciplinary staff to design and develop financial platform products
• Own the overall platform vision, capabilities and roadmap
• Translate business and product requirements into platform specifications
• Manage platform business plans and roadmap execution
• Drive development for new initiatives and time-to-market optimization
• Communicate goals, roles and outcomes across the company
• Ensure risk, regulatory compliance and ethical standards are upheld

Skills

Leadership

Product management

Strategic thinking

Communication

Cross-functional

Risk awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Job description

The Digital PM Group Manager is accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals. Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Some external communication may be necessary. Accountable for the end results of an area. Exercises control over resources, policy formulation and planning. Primarily affects a sub-function. Involved in short- to medium-term planning of actions and resources for own area. Full management responsibility of a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, to include performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Product Managers and engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive, design and develop innovative financial platform products
• Responsible for the overall vision, technical capabilities and roadmap of the digital product platform
• Engage with businesses and shape business and product requirements in to platform requirements
• Own the overall platform business plans and roadmaps
• Drive product development for new initiatives
• Make appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market
• Maintain the product roadmap, and clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities and desired outcomes throughout the company
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience
• Experience shaping business strategy for technical products or services
• Responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment
• Excellent product and platform instincts and communication skills coupled with a passion for business, technology while delivering a world-class customer experience
• Demonstrated track record managing all aspects of a successful software or technology product or platform throughout its lifecycle, including product strategy development, customer insights/needs, and requirements definition
• Data-driven analytical skills and be able to operate and thrive with partial information and ambiguity and have a track record of building successful teams
• Demonstrated ability to define, prioritize and deliver best in class software service products
• Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
• Capacity to develop, and maintain comprehensive set of business plans and financial models
• Ability to succeed in a cross-matrixed organization that relies on building support in other groups
• Capacity to adapt to shifting goals and activities
• Capacity to manage multiple activities in parallel
• Self-starter with the ability to define goals and strategies with minimal management oversight
• Willingness to take risks to develop a business in unchartered waters

Education

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Job Family Group

Product Management and Development

Job Family

Digital Product Management

Time Type

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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