Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join PlantingSpace, an ambitious early-stage startup, as a senior Product Manager to drive product strategy, research market and user needs, develop compelling use cases, and build relationships. Leverage your deep expertise in the Finance industry to guide product vision and execution. This critical role offers the opportunity to join at an early stage and grow with the company. PlantingSpace is building an AI system for analysts and scientists using a novel approach to reasoning and knowledge representation. The ideal candidate will have experience with analytical tools, product development methods, and project management skills within financial services. The company offers a fully remote work environment, primarily within the CET timezone.

Requirements

• Proven track record of product management within financial services, fintech, banking, investment platforms, or related financial technology domains
• User research and interviewing users in analytical domains, specific to financial services
• Some hands-on software development
• Writing for external audiences
• A strong collaborator: You communicate with clarity and purpose, ensuring your ideas and intentions are easily understood. You work efficiently, embracing an iterative approach that allows for frequent progress and course correction. You’re open to direct feedback, adapting quickly and using it to improve both your work, and the performance of those around you
• A builder at heart: You’re passionate about building things, solving complex problems, and approaching challenges with an entrepreneurial spirit and humility. Your sharp sense of prioritisation allows you to take one step at a time while not losing the ultimate goal out of sight
• Results-driven: You thrive when taking full ownership of tasks, seeing them through from start to finish, and taking accountability for the results. You’re proactive, resourceful, and avoid over-complication - anticipating problems, even in complex, uncertain environments
• Growth mindset: You are intellectually curious, have a critical mind, and seek opportunities to stretch your abilities. You explore the state-of-the-art, you dig deep to truly understand a problem, and question assumptions
• You excel at taking a complex goal and breaking it down into manageable components, with clear dependencies
• You balance independent problem solving with collaborative approaches, knowing when to tackle issues yourself and when to leverage team expertise
• You facilitate productive problem-solving in the team to drive efficient alignment, and improve proposed solutions
• You create clear documentation and knowledge-sharing systems that empower the entire team

Responsibilities

• Follow latest developments in tools for Finance and other analytical domains
• Drive user and market research to generate actionable insights for our product direction
• Build a network of external experts to develop our use cases and define user requirements
• Evaluate use cases commercially to define our product strategy
• Develop product growth mechanisms

Preferred Qualifications

• Products based on emerging technologies
• Launch or release of analytical tools, or building them into workflows
• Analytical product development methods and advanced project management skills

Benefits

Our team works fully remotely, and mostly within the CET timezone