Product Manager

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Product Manager to join our Client's team.

Responsibilities:

• Drive cross-functional teams comprised of both business and technical roles during the product development lifecycle; champion the needs of clients; develop detailed requirements and feature definitions; partner with IT on development, testing & implementation plans, as well as internal communications & deployment plans.
• Work with both business stakeholders and technical teams like Front End/Back End/Middleware Engineering, QA, Architecture, PMO, UX teams, Finance, Marketing, Analytics, etc.
• Collaborate with internal business partners to refine requirements and define enhancements, creating buy-in from other teams as necessary.
• Assess scope, requirements, use case/user scenario, test case documents and design specifications, in partnership with UX, product managers, QA and design. Proactively identify issues. Work closely with key business leaders at senior levels.
• Synthesize business requirements, identify areas of uncertainty, recommend solutions, gather buy-in from relevant stakeholders, shepherd features through development and provide support at launch.
• Develop metrics to measure success of program features, analyze results, and partner across the organization to develop action plans and enhancement recommendations.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years’ experience in product management or software development, preferably for payment or finance eCommerce products with a large user base.
• Experience managing third-party vendors and vendor negotiation in partnership with business teams.
• Deep understanding of digital payments technology and trends
• In-depth payment processing knowledge
• Comfortable working on both technical platforms and user-facing features
• Strong drive and curiosity to come up with new ideas, identify opportunities and create vision to drive the business forward.
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills.

Nice To Have:

• Prior experience in a multi-channel retail environment or other customer-focused technology products.
• Experience with complex integrations.
• Strong technical background is nice to have, but more importantly, they have a willingness to learn.
• Experience with payment analytics.

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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