Description
Product Manager – Banking & Financial Services Consulting
Locations: San Francisco, Palo Alto, Chicago, Plano Texas, Dallas (Onsite/ Hybrid)
ABOUT US
Cognizant is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com .
COGNIZANT CONSULTING
Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program, and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we are growing!
The Role
Our Banking and Financial Services (BFS) Consulting practice is looking for Product Managers to join our team while we work on an exciting platform modernization engagement. This role is on-site at client location.
Do you want to build best-in-class digital products for our most innovative clients? The Digital Commercial Bank team is responsible for defining and executing the digital strategy for the firm’s commercial bank clients. As a Product Manager, you will lead a product from zero to one, contributing to the strategy and driving execution. In this role you will work closely with Engineering, Design, Data, Controls, and many others to deliver value for our rapidly growing business.
We’re looking for a Senior Consultant who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a senior consultant, this means creating high-quality client deliverables and taking ownership (with supervision) of producing client content and meeting client expectations; developing an expertise in your functional area, including obtaining certifications; contributing to Client Satisfaction and/or RFPs; supporting leadership and contributing to content development for service offerings; and participating in People Care initiatives and exhibiting personal leadership at all times. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.
Our solutions are in demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!
Responsibilities
- Clearly communicate business priorities to partners in tech, design, and controls
- Develop and manage your product roadmap and drive prioritization of features while balancing customer and business impacts
- Lead product development by working with Engineering and Design to drive team ceremonies, such as refinement, sprint planning, and product reviews
- Leverage data to understand user behavior and shape your product roadmap.
- Build and maintain strong collaborative relationship
- Being on-site at the client location minimum 2 – 3 days / week for the duration of the project
Qualification
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience
- Minimum 5 years of Product Management experience
- Experience in commercial banking and insurance industry
- Proficient in Agile methodologies
- Experience in leading Agile teams and subsequent ceremonies
- Strong technical background and the ability to dive into the technical details
- Demonstrated experience problem solving and developing products from scratch
- Minimum 3-5 years of relevant financial products/financial industry experience
- Experience with bringing together cross functional teams and leading execution in an agile delivery model
- Ability to translate product vision into vertically sliced stories to develop the product iteratively. Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills
- Ability to handle ambiguity and white space.
- Demonstrated examples of building and launching products
- Fintech or financial experience
- Technical experience with microservices and/or API
- The embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Start with a point of view; Seek data, build knowledge; Always strive, never settle; Work as one; Create conditions for everyone to thrive; Do the right thing, the right way
- Ability to be on-site at the client location at least 2-3 days each week for the duration of the project
Work Authorization
- Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $80,000.00 – $135,000.00 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Employee Status : Full Time Employee
Shift : Day Job
Travel : No
Job Posting : Jun 14 2023
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @USJobsCognizant.
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