Product Manager, Financial Systems

Creative Artists Agency; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Artists Agency is seeking a Product Manager for their Product Management team in Los Angeles, California. The role involves managing products throughout the digital product lifecycle, collaborating across teams, and focusing on delivering user-friendly applications.

The ideal candidate will have experience in Agile practices, strong skills in Jira and Confluence, and knowledge of the music industry is a plus. This position has a hybrid work model requiring a minimum of 3 days in the office.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in product management for digital products.
• 2+ years with products using Scaled Agile practices.
• Experience in the music industry is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage products from vision to launch delivering features iteratively.
• Collaborate with product managers to ensure alignment across products.
• Work closely with UX/UI Design to create intuitive product experiences.

Skills

Product management

Agile methodologies

Jira

Confluence

Github

Tools

Chrome developer tools

Job description

The Role

CAA is seeking a Product Manager to join our Product Management team and contribute to CAA’s IT organization. As CAA continues to expand its footprint in the sport and entertainment industry and grow globally, we have an increasing need to implement applications supporting our diverse customers – clients, agents, executives, assistants, and business partners. The Product Management team is focused on implementing technology products to drive productivity and effectiveness of our customers. We are obsessed with delivering intuitive products that embody CAA’s culture. We seek a curious, creative, and driven product manager. We are looking for individuals who are highly adaptable, who like solving problems, and can collaborate effectively across diverse stakeholder groups. We’re seeking a Product Manager who is eager to grow their expertise across the full product lifecycle – from contributing to product vision and roadmap planning to supporting ongoing product delivery and customer feedback loops.

Responsibilities

• Quickly develop a deep understanding of products you will lead, including the business domains and workflows that these products support.
• Manage products from vision to launch (and on-going support) delivering features iteratively to provide the expected business outcomes.
• Collaborate and coordinate with other product managers in the team to ensure alignment across products and product lines.
• Participate actively in our cross-functional SAFe Agile Release Train (ART), taking on the roles of Feature Owner and agile team Product Owner.
• In the Scaled Agile ART, collaborate closely with senior product managers and domain leads, contributing to planning intervals and supporting alignment across product teams.
• Actively engage in relevant ART ceremonies (including PO Sync and PI Planning).
• Support knowledge sharing and peer collaboration within the product team.
• Contribute to broader business and IT initiatives that support the continued growth of CAA.
• Create product roadmaps and work closely with business leaders and our engineering teams to deliver new products and feature enhancements.
• Orchestrate the work of our engineers throughout the development cycle to deliver the highest quality products.
• Work with our UX/UI Design team to design simple and intuitive product experiences.
• Work closely with our corporate stakeholders to ensure that their compliance, data privacy, financial and HR requirements are represented during product development.
• Have deep understanding and empathy for customer needs, using user research and creative feedback mechanisms to validate product hypotheses and optimal product solutions.
• This will include working with our Service Delivery team to elicit their input on new product features.
• Be data-driven and use data to decide the best opportunities that deliver the most business impact.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in product management managing products at all stages of the digital product life cycle (early-stage products, mature digital products, and late-stage products) and accountable for the voice of the product(s) you own and the customers you support.
• 2+ years’ experience working with products using Scaled Agile practices (e.g. SAFe) and operating in Scrum-based Agile teams.
• Experience in the music industry is preferred.
• Strong experience in Jira, Confluence, and Github.
• Proficient with Chrome developer tools or similar in other browsers to test product features and troubleshoot bugs.
• Curious and eager to learn, especially about new business domains and workflows, and you are eager to expand your areas of expertise.
• Experience handling sensitive company information and protecting systems and data through security awareness.

Location

Location: This position will be based in our Los Angeles office with a minimum of 3 days a week in the office. Occasional travel including company meetings and events is expected.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Creative Artists Agency, LLC (the 'Company') is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate on the basis of race (inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, creed, gender or sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, family and medical care leave status, military or veteran status, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, political affiliation, an employee’s or their dependent’s reproductive health decision making (e.g., the decision to use or access a particular drug, device or medical service), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. The absence of a permanent address is not a bar to employment. The Company does not discriminate against individuals based on housing status, including the absence of a fixed address. The Company also complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws with regard to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities. CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.