Immediate need for a talented Product Manager Trading/Mutual Fund. This is a 09+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in NYC and San Francisco(Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.Job ID: 24-15350Pay Range: $90/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze business processes/requirements and developing specifications for both near and longer-term solutions.
- Attending key Agile development rituals such as stand-Client, grooming, planning, demos and retrospectives.
- Coordinating with users and development teams to perform user acceptance tests.
- Conduct product demos, presentations and user training.
- Oversee the creation of key artifacts critical to the delivery of excellent software products:
- Business requirements.
- Process definition documents.
- Functional specifications.
- Data definition documents.
- Product release notes.
- User journey maps.
- Use cases, user stories.
- User-acceptance test plans and cases.
Key Requirements and Technology Experience:
- Must Have Skills: Business Analyst, Mutual Fund, Trading.
- 8- 10 years experience as Product Manager and/or Business Analyst on software development projects.
- Financial domain knowledge/experience preferably in the space of ETFs, mutual funds, portfolio management or trade operations.
- Strong interpersonal skills and verbal/written communication skills.
- Strong project and time management skills.
- Strong ability to build effective working relationships across various levels.
- Ability to set and maintain priorities in a multi-task environment.
- Ability to handle pressure and changes effectively.
- Experience executing test plans and coordinating automated testing.
- Experience in product demos, presentations and user training.
- Experience working in a globally, distributed team.
- Experience working in Agile SDLC.
- Excellent business judgment and strong analytical skills, with ability to identify issues and solutions.
- Experience facilitating business discovery workshops and interviewing end-users.
- Demonstrated ability to write high-level business requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to write functional specifications: including use cases, business process diagrams, user interface wireframes and data dictionaries.
- Demonstrated ability to write and execute user-acceptance test plans and cases.
- Experience working on projects with modern application development (e.g. Web applications using Angular/React, Web Services, APIs, JSON/XML, NoSQL Databases, Kubernetes, Cloud Technology)
- Experience with UI/UX design/prototyping is a distinct advantage.
Our client is a leading Investment management Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.