Product Manager at Prodigy Finance

Why this is an amazing opportunity

This role is perfect for an experienced Head of Product who wants to experience first-hand what it is like to be part of an energetic, extremely fast-growing company. The sense of impact and reward will be huge. You will help to build a business which makes a very real difference in the world. Be a part of delivering socially responsible financial services to tomorrow’s leaders; make it possible for students from more than 100 countries to obtain the finances to fulfil their dream of studying at the world’s top universities and schools. We are a non-hierarchical team; this means that you are going to get exposure to all aspects of our business immediately. You’ll own the role and its responsibilities and will work closely with the broader team. The opportunity to gain as much accountability as you can handle, and to have a huge influence on scaling the company, is completely in your hands.

Our team is very international and very sociable; you will interact with stakeholders in the business around the world on a regular basis. Being an organisation that’s passionate about education, we place a high value on learning and personal growth.

One of our goals is to build one of the top FinTech teams and cultures anywhere in the world. This means putting a lot of time into ensuring we only hire people with exceptional potential, and creating the best working environment possible. If you want to work somewhere where you're learning from some of the best brains in Fintech, this would be a good fit.

Why join Prodigy Finance

• Be a part of a pioneering global growth company.
• Experience the excitement and learn from being part of an incredibly fast-growing young company. No kidding - exponential growth. Happening right now!
• Be pivotal in scaling the business by identifying smart solutions and partners with tech at the heart of it.
• Enjoy the agility and flexibility offered by a startup culture. A sociable, relaxed and friendly work environment (with a serious coffee culture where you can wear shorts to work).
• We will help you make your mark. Make a real impact on the business and experience a steep learning curve with huge opportunities to grow and develop.
• Gain an inside perspective on the functioning of a venture-backed Fintech startup, backed by one of the top European VCs, learn day-to-day management and build functional expertise.
• Build a platform that helps to make a very real difference in the world.
• Receive a competitive salary and share options in the company. Since you will be playing a key role in making us successful, it is only right that you share in the rewards of our success.

What you will do in the role

The Head of Product acts as a key lynchpin for the company. You will unify product strategy and execution for Prodigy Finance; combining product vision and feedback from the senior leadership team, from Business Development, Technology, Operations, plus direct feedback from customers and key prospects.

You will gather and prioritise product and customer requirements, define the roadmap and work closely with the Technology team to continue to deliver outstanding products. As an equal priority, you will work with Business Development to ensure the Prodigy Finance product set aligns to our commercial strategy and helps us continue to grow as the leading player in the sector.

Specific responsibilities are to:

• Take responsibility for the product roadmap; ensure it dovetails into the commercial strategy and help to develop the overall company strategy.

• Design and implement a metrics-orientated approach to obtaining and analysing user feedback that solve actual user needs.

• Develop requirements documents, business cases and use cases for new product features.

• Conduct business-level verification and market testing of new features.

• Work very closely with all functional areas to ensure that users are at the forefront of all platform changes.

• Influence internal processes – particularly with engineering - to define workload and scheduling priorities.

• Work closely with marketing and business development during new product launches, contributing to white papers/case studies and other customer related collateral.

• Become an expert on other products in the marketplace including mobile.

What you need to be great at

• Personal stature, gravitas, a relationship builder; influencer; excellent communication and interpersonal skills across a number of stakeholder groups.

• People management directly of a team of product owners, UI/UX, community manager as well indirectly with key stakeholders.

• Technical acumen; able to learn new paradigms quickly, and looks to continuously improve and find better ways of doing things. Strong technical understanding and able to translate requirements.

• Excellent critical judgment; able to make good decisions, be trusted, respected and dependable, be proactive and responsive, ask the right questions, raise flags at the right time, able to prioritize and plan workloads for the team.

• Analytical thinking capability; logical, systematic, strategic and pragmatic, strong attention to detail; both quantitative and qualitative; can process large amounts of data from disparate sources; able to learn new concepts and business issues quickly.

• Problem-solving aptitude; Able to conduct research to define problems and prepare responses to anticipated questions and queries. Able to make logical conclusions, anticipate obstacles, and consider different approaches.

• Bias to action; create ideas, think outside the box, problem solver and solution finder, proactive, use initiative to develop and improve.

• Structured in an unstructured environment; highly organised, ability to multi-task and project manage. Can correctly prioritise multiple issues, opportunities and creates structure, systems and processes from scratch.

Who we are looking for; track record must have

• An executor who has demonstrable success in a product leadership role, where they needed to understand commercial goals, think strategically and balance the desire to create an end product which is beautiful but where quality and functionality are equally important.

• Experience of driving cross-functional teams, ideally internationally, to deliver against a relentlessly tight schedule.

• Proven track record of a role where you live and breathe customer experience, the end to end journey, UX and UI.

• Track record of delivering a mass market consumer product or service via a bespoke tech (digital) platform.

• Track record of delivering complex projects with agile development teams.

 Experience that would be nice to have (but we’ll trade off if everything else fits)

• Ideally you will have a FinTech background.

• Startup experience. Sometimes the earth moves beneath your feet at Prodigy Finance so you've got to be comfortable with ambiguity, able to wear lots of hats, and adapt easily as we continue to grow.

The Prodigy Finance fit; attributes which run true in everyone at Team Prodigy

To be an A player at Prodigy Finance, you need to possess – in spades - the following attributes:

Innovative + Smart

Be curious enough to want to know more, think out the box, maybe even break the box, show initiative and be smart about it to find implementable, impactful solutions.

International + Accountable

Push yourself to be better every day. Work with others across the world, be resilient, add value and then hold yourself accountable. Encourage and celebrate each other.

Energetic + Fun

Sense of humour = survival. Bring energy and fun. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Work hard and find the time to play. We’re in this together.

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If this sounds exciting and you'd like to have an informal chat, get in touch below and tell us why you want to work at Prodigy Finance.