Product Manager, Data - Associate

iCapital is powering the world’s alternative investment marketplace. Our financial technology platform has transformed how advisors, wealth management firms, asset managers, and banks evaluate and recommend bespoke public and private market strategies for their high-net-worth clients. iCapital services approximately $200 billion in global client assets invested in 1,634 funds, as of September 2024. 

iCapital has been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 for seven consecutive years (2018-2024); a three-time selection by Forbes to its list of Best Startup Employers (2021-2023); and a four-time winner of MMI/Barron’s Solutions Provider award (See link below).  

About the Role 

iCapital is seeking a highly motivated Junior Product Manager to join the Data Organization to support building out iCapital’s reference data platform. The Data Organization is responsible for Master Data Management, Data Governance, Business Intelligence, Reporting, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning solutions and utilizes the latest technologies to bring the highest level of efficiencies across a wide range of core business processes across iCapital. The team strives to solve the most complex problems with real impact to business operation costs, with a vision towards driving revenue with packaged data product solutions across the alternative investments industry.  

This role will be working in a team-oriented environment with smart and hardworking individuals in a results-oriented culture with support from the Executive Management. This opportunity focuses on taking iCapital’s reference data platform to the next level to support data accuracy and completeness across the company, as well as working with clients to support their reference data management needs. This individual will work directly with end users and clients to bring scale and efficiency spanning across a multitude of different business processes, as well as various user experiences for key critical online functions. The ideal candidate will utilize the latest technologies and innovative solutions, with room to grow or broaden responsibilities as the company continuously grows. This role will be responsible for various areas of product building, and will work towards identifying unmet needs, defining requirements, writing user stories, developing project communication plans, and testing product features. The ideal candidate will embrace a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and possess strong communication and leadership skills to facilitate cross-functional collaboration. 

Responsibilities 

• Work cross-functionally with various Product and Technology teams in the development of product roadmaps that align with company goals and objectives. 

• Create and analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) post-production release to evaluate product success and drive continuous improvement initiative to quantify the benefit and value add of the feature. 

• Engage with business teams to identify pain points and find areas of opportunity for the use of technology. 

• Help lead engagement with end users to identify and deliver solutions to core functional areas and user experiences. 

• Collaborate with UX Design teams, Technology, and other partners in scoping different solutions, writing user-stories and preparing the organization for product launches. 

• Develop a strong understanding of business impacts and work with others to manage concurrent requests and requirements. 

• Work closely with the business teams to capture all the requirements and think outside the box to find solutions and designs that enhance the user experience. 

• Monitor the performance of the product and continuously improve it through all the life-stages of a product. 

• Maintain awareness of the competitive landscape from a business and legal and compliance perspective. 

• Step outside the product realm when appropriate to contribute to the team and overall company mission. 

Qualifications 

• 2-5+ years of experience in product management in a fast-paced, agile environment 

• Critical thinker and comfortable with the unknown 

• Willingness to dig deep, analyze, and know the ins and outs of how things work 

• Natural problem solver and driven to push initiatives to conclusions 

• Great communicator and comfortable engaging others for ideas and resolutions 

• Comfort with leveraging SQL and able to generate conclusions based on data being presented 

• Capable or growing into a role of managing space in terms of organizing requests and priorities 

• Develop a solid understanding of organizational data flow and its impact on business processes 

• Strong technical background and understanding; able to construct wireframes and design user experiences while understanding basic API functionalities 

• Capable of building relationships to gain buy in and achieve business results 

• History of customer centric focus with a knack for quick and thoughtful problem-solving 

• Financial technology background is strongly preferred 

• Expertise with QA testing and business analysis 

• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills 

• Capable of growing into or demonstrated track record of influencing others effectively 

Benefits 

The base salary range for this role is $100,000 to $125,000.  iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO). 

We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.  

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iCapital is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.