Product Manager

Our client a well established financial services firm is looking to hire a Product Manager to take their exisiting internal live coding tool/platform from good to great. This is a long term (12 months to start) contract to hire. Onsite 4 days a week in midtown NYC. Ideally would love someone from a large established tech firm (FAANG/MAANG).

About the Role

The firm’s internal live coding tool is a critical analytical platform that underpins how analysts, engineers, and researchers build, deploy, and operate software. It spans development environments, deployment infrastructure, data connectivity, secrets management, authentication, application templating, and cloud storage APIs.

As the sole Product Manager for this internal live coding tool, you will own the product strategy, roadmap, and day-to-day execution for a platform that is both broad in scope and essential to firm-wide productivity.

This is a highly hands-on role. You will write detailed requirements, manage a JIRA backlog, coordinate cross-functional delivery, and serve as the primary point of contact between the platform engineering team and its internal user base. Success requires the ability to context-switch across multiple technical workstreams while maintaining depth and precision.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Own the product roadmap; prioritize features, infrastructure improvements, and technical-debt reduction across all platform workstreams
• Translate business objectives and user pain points into a sequenced delivery plan with clearly defined outcomes
• Evaluate trade-offs between new capabilities, platform stability, and governance requirements, and clearly communicate decisions

Requirements & Delivery Execution

• Write detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical requirements in JIRA; maintain a sprint-ready backlog
• Partner with engineering leads to scope work, estimate effort, and track delivery
• Lead cross-functional initiatives across engineering, compliance, HR, and investment teams

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Serve as the primary liaison between platform engineering and internal users
• Run regular office hours to gather feedback and communicate updates
• Provide roadmap and status updates to senior leadership

Documentation, Enablement & Onboarding

• Develop and maintain documentation, guides, and training materials
• Support onboarding to ensure new hires can effectively use the platform
• Drive adoption through enablement initiatives and ongoing user education

Required Qualifications

• 3–6 years of Product Management experience, including internal platforms or developer tools
• Strong understanding of AI concepts and tooling
• Experience managing JIRA backlogs and writing detailed requirements
• Familiarity with APIs, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD, containers, and data systems
• Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Proven ability to operate independently across multiple concurrent workstreams
• Exposure to financial services environments and regulatory considerations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Snowflake, Python ecosystems, or enterprise authentication systems (SAML, OAuth, SSO)

Why This Role

This is a unique opportunity to own and shape a foundational platform that directly impacts how the entire organization builds and delivers technology. You’ll work at the intersection of engineering, data, and business, driving meaningful improvements to productivity, scalability, and developer experience across the firm.