Product Manager/Business Analyst
Updraft, United Kingdom
Job Description
Updraft is a rapidly growing Fintech company based in London. Our mission is to revolutionise the way people manage their finances and empower them to achieve their financial goals. We offer personalised loans and innovative financial services to help individuals pay off credit cards, overdrafts, and other debts.
We are looking for a number of product manager/business analyst to join us.
The product manager/business analyst we are looking for will be the key connecting point in the intersection between the customer voice, client objectives, internal vision and the technical delivery team.
Requirements
Your Responsibilities:
You'll play a key role in identifying the needs of our customers and the larger business objectives that a product or feature will fulfill, articulate what success looks like for a product, and rally a cross-functional team consisting of both internal and external stakeholders to turn that vision into a reality:
- You have an innate interest to empathise with customers and have the ability to put yourself in their shoes to deliver impactful solutions that meet their needs. Your deep understanding of the competitive landscape and keen eye in spotting opportunities backed by research and data enables you to deliver products that improve lives and have commercial value.
- Make things happen through leadership, influence and excellent problem solving skills. You will need to work closely with various stakeholders, understand their needs and synchronise efforts from various delivery teams to reach the main goal.
- You must be a rockstar in prioritisation, decision making and strategic influencing, constantly juggling between resource gaps that may exist and delivery timelines.
- An excellent communicator, able to adapt to different styles of communication and backgrounds. Able to derive insights from customers and translate them into technical requirements.
- A strong team player, and team collaboration energises you.
- You are all about creating a frictionless and delightful customer experience.
- Solid understanding of full stack technology both front end and back end.
- Highly analytical with strong business acumen. You combine observations and data to make decisions.
- Most importantly, you are a visionary. At times, you will need to imagine a solution to a problem that may not yet exist.
- Someone with coding knowledge would be a major plus point.
Your Qualifications:
- Proven experience as a Product Manager/Business Analyst or similar role
- 6+ years overall with a minimum of 4+ years in specific Lending / Loan Management Systems Projects
- Strong understanding of product development methodologies and best practices
- Excellent teamwork skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Strong analytical, business acumen and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Coding knowledge would be a major plus point
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Manage and own a part of product development that will help shape and leapfrog our business
- We welcome applications from all and are fully committed to diversity and equality as an equal opportunities employer.