Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SimCorp is a fast-growing fintech company on a mission to modernize the private market ecosystem for institutional investors. They are seeking a Lead Principal Product Manager to own the product strategy and execution for their private markets platform, ensuring seamless delivery and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Orchestrate high-stakes product demonstrations, executive roundtables, and client conferences to evangelize the solution and secure stakeholder buy-in across diverse audiences
- Define, own and evolve the product roadmap for our private markets platform, balancing short-term customer needs with long-term strategic vision
- Be the primary point of contact, the go-to person for private markets and collaborate closely with internal and external stakeholders
- Strategically own, manage and prioritize the product backlog in lockstep with Leadership, balancing technical debt with high-value strategic investments to ensure seamless delivery
- Deeply immerse yourself in the workflows of private markets - conducting interviews, shadowing users, and synthesizing feedback into actionable insights
- Write crisp, well-reasoned product specifications and work hand-in-hand with engineering and design to ship high-quality features on time
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to author comprehensive user features and stories, establishing rigorous acceptance criteria to ensure all deliverables meet 'Definition of Ready' and 'Definition of Done' standards in the acceptance of deliverables
- Define success metrics for every initiative and use data to evaluate outcomes, iterate quickly, and communicate results to stakeholders
- Partner with Sales and Customer Success to understand market gaps, competitive dynamics, and the evolving needs of our customer base
- Identify and evaluate opportunities to integrate AI and automation into core workflows — making complex workflows faster, smarter, and more reliable
- Drive alignment across cross-functional teams, ensuring clarity on priorities, tradeoffs, and the 'why' behind every decision
- Stay ahead of regulatory developments, market trends, and competitive shifts in the private markets technology landscape
- Represent the voice of the customer in every product decision — advocating relentlessly for user experience without sacrificing business viability
Skills
- 5+ years product management experience, with at least 2 years in B2B SaaS or fintech
- Meaningful exposure to private markets, whether through prior work at a PE firm, fund administrator, placement agent, LP, or financial software company serving these markets
- Demonstrated track record of successfully launching products and features that users love and that drive measurable business results
- Strong understanding of private asset structures, capital calls, distributions, investor reporting, and related workflows
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills — you can write a tight one-pager and present to a room of skeptical executives with equal confidence and are not afraid to use AI
- Proficiency in working with data: you're comfortable analyzing usage metrics and building dashboards to support your decisions
- Experience collaborating with engineering teams in an agile environment; familiarity with modern development practices is a plus
- High EQ and the ability to build trust quickly with customers, engineers, and senior leadership alike
- A genuine curiosity about technology and its role in reshaping financial services
- Experience engaging proactively with clients and stakeholders to solicit input for user stories
- Broad knowledge of the Alternative Investment marketplace and system vendors
- Proven track record in roles such as Product Manager, Product Owner, Engineering, Business Analyst, Project Manager, or Consultant within software development
- Strategic mindset with strong analytical skills focused on business outcomes and complete product offers
- Ability to encourage, motivate, and influence teams and peers; contribute to improvements across the community
- Understanding of how great products are built and deliver value to clients
- Creative and inquisitive mindset with the ability to simplify complex concepts
- Experience with SimCorp Dimension® (advantageous but not required)
- Degree in Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Finance, or a related field (preferred)
Benefits
- Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus
- Benefits including health care, leave, and retirement plans
- Benefits including health and dental care, time off and Group RRSP/TFSA
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