Job Description

Our client, a leading financial software company, is hiring for a contract Product Manager. This is a hybrid position with weekly onsite in Mountain View, CA.

This role is pivotal to developing and enhancing internal tools that support product configuration, pricing, and promotions, which are critical to the company's go-to-market (GTM) strategy. The ideal candidate brings a strong product mindset, business systems expertise, and excellent cross-functional collaboration skills to deliver foundational capabilities for scalable and efficient GTM execution. The ideal candidate is comfortable collaborating with globally distributed teams and thrives in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. Individual will also support the India team, so they will join calls during nighttime for 1-2 hours for 2- 3 days a week.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years in Product Management
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or a related field
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with global teams across different time zones, maintaining strong alignment and timely execution.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities
• Exceptional communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to nurture various projects in parallel, in different stages of maturity and velocity.
• Strong ability to think through unifying elements and common denominators; dream up user workflows & interfaces; translate it into engineering-ready user stories; and work with product designers to create self-serve products.
• Demonstrated customer empathy and experience with user-centric design

Preferred Tools & Domain Experience

• Background in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), commerce systems, or product catalog tools
• Familiarity with tools such as: Figma, Jira, Google Workspace, Smartsheet, ProductPlan, LeanIX (or equivalents)

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Impact

• Lead monetization initiatives in alignment with the company's Big Bets and long-term goals.
• Enhance platform capabilities to accelerate go-to-market (GTM) readiness by simplifying existing workflows through low-code tools and Generative AI, enabling greater speed, flexibility, and automation in execution.

Platform Development

• Improve and maintain product and pricing platform functionalities such as:
• Price change simplification
• Product bundling innovations
• Platform consolidation efforts
• Identify and drive opportunities for system optimization, scalability, and innovation.

User & Stakeholder Engagement

• Conduct customer empathy sessions (e.g., follow-me-home ) to surface pain points and define product roadmap priorities.
• Partner with cross-functional teams—across Engineering, Design, Marketing, Finance, and Operations—to align on strategy, roadmap, and deliverables in a globally distributed working environment.
• Lead product requirement reviews and secure stakeholder sign-off.

Execution & Operations

• Manage product lifecycle from concept through launch, with a high standard for quality, usability, and business impact.
• Oversee and support testing, user readiness, documentation, and training sessions.
• Monitor day-to-day usage and serve as Product SME, addressing issues to unblock users and dev teams promptly.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Act as a liaison between geographically distributed teams, including platform, business, and operations stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and smooth coordination across time zones.

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