Product Manager

About Crowdz (www.crowdz.io):
Crowdz is a Fintech company focused on helping small businesses (SMBs) reclaim the future. We are expanding economic opportunities for small businesses by accelerating their cash flow. Invoices are at the heart of everything small and mid-sized enterprises do. They impact hiring, buying products and growth. Every day spent waiting to receive a receivable is a missed opportunity. Our goal is to level the playing field by providing SMBs access to more working capital to grow their business. At Crowdz, we are speeding up cash flow with a global exchange for receivables that puts money on the books in record time and helps businesses thrive. We are looking for a dynamic product manager to help take our product to the next level.
Location: Remote, US Time Zone

What you’ll do
As a Product Manager, you are in charge products lifecycle; i.e. from inception to delivery. You will gather requirements by working with the business development team, workshop with customers or from the executive team. You drive the vision of the product and write the specifications for delivery. You will then work with the technology and development team to deliver the product.

Finally, you will remain updated with emerging technologies and provide strategic recommendations.

Job Description

• Own the vision and strategy of products that you are in charge
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external customer accounts to gather requirements and to deliver business specification for the product.
• Work in lockstep with the Crowdz Design Teams to drive frontend UI design to improve the overall customer experience/journey of our application and integrate design requirements with functional requirements.
• Act as a subject matter expert in the current product functionality and workflow collaborating with product teams to assess impacts of changes.
• Help to translate business requirements into specification requirements and user stories for IT developers that reflect the system architecture.
• Provide direct input into test plans, test cases, edge cases and participate in UAT testing efforts each product release and support release readiness.
• Collaborate with the business development teams and vendors to ongoing product management including addressing customer bugs, fixes, feedback, issues and solving problems as well as creating enhancements
• Work with the Program Manager to drive prioritization of feature requests and release schedules to execute to the product roadmap.
• Collaborate with the Program Manager to identify dependencies, log and track bugs.
• Responsible for connecting and helping to facilitate the product development lifecycle
  

You’ll be great for this role if you have

• 5+ years product management or related industry experience.
• Background in supply chain finance or financial services
• B2B or Fintech software experience is a plus
• Previous experience in software project management.
• Prior experience working with off-shore IT development teams projects
• Ability to communicate effectively with business and technical teams
• Experience managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders
• Experience with API integrations
• Experience working with User experience, design, sales and marketing teams
• Experience analyzing and using data to inform decisions.
• Experience working with complex business needs that influence product direction
• Experience in SaaS business
• Payment or Data experience is a plus
• Previously worked with Jira, Confluence, Hubspot, Lucid

To qualify for the role you are

• Bachelor degree or equivalent experience
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical skills.
• Able to think out of the box and find creative ways to solve complex problems.
• Strong Customer centricity, UX and design sense.
• Self-starters, comfortable to operate at fast-pace, to deal with ambiguity and changing priorities, resilient
• Strong communication, written, and presentation skills. Ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences (make the complex simple).
• Solid Program Management skills; advanced planning, organizational and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work across cross-functional groups (on-shore / off-shore)
• Able to communicate effectively with developers
• Experience managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders
• Good sense of humor

What we offer

• This is a great role in a vibrant and growing team in an organization with an inclusive culture
• You will have the freedom to define the vision and the opportunity to make things happen
• You can be flexible in how and where you work (remote working)
• You will work with a truly international team and international customers
• Your work will be diverse and challenging
• We offer competitive salary, benefit package and a stock option plan