Senior Product Manager - Data Automation

About Xceptor

Data is at the heart of everything we do: Xceptor has been designed around data manipulation in its broadest sense. We source data from wherever it flows. We curate, normalise, validate, repair, and enrich that data so it reaches its destination in a reliable and consistent format. Data coming out of Xceptor is data our clients can trust.

We are recognised as an expert in the Financial Services vertical, which strongly aligns with Business Users in Middle and Back-Office teams. We enable these users to solve their data challenges by themselves, rather than through a technology-led project.

Our People are subject matter experts. We understand our client’s challenges and we’ve got the experience and knowledge to solve them. Our talented team has a deep understanding of the unique challenges of the industry - we can empathise, engage, and speak the same language as our clients.

Our Vision is to be the leading platform for automating data flows.

Our Mission is to empower business users within Financial Institutions to build automated processes that deliver trusted data.

Our Values were created by our people, and speak to both who we are, and who we aspire to be. Ambition is in our DNA, and we embrace any opportunities ahead. Our curiosity and desire to grow drives us to learn from our customers and those around us. Our people are empowered, accountable, and deliver. We pull together, step up and focus on outcomes. The brilliance of our people makes a positive difference.

The Role

The Xceptor Platform forms the heart of Xceptor and covers key areas such as connectivity, data extraction, automation & orchestration as well as workflow & operations.

As Platform Product Manager, you will be responsible for the Xceptor Platform product This means setting the product vision, being clear on the value that we offer our clients and being accountable for making the vision happen through product strategy, development and supporting go-to-market activities.

You will be responsible for defining a product strategy that includes market sizing, positioning, market trends, competitive information and broad functional scope. You will also be responsible for developing and delivering against an annual plan and an annual goal that contributes to the wider company vision, North Star KPIs, milestones, marketing & go-to-market planning.

Throughout the year, you will represent your product area, both to clients & prospects as well as towards the various parts of Xceptor, including Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Implementation & Customer Success.

You will work especially closely with members of the product & engineering tribes for your area – Product Managers, Senior Engineering Managers, Product Designers, Principal Software Engineers – as well as members of working groups for the area – typically across go-to-market functions.

As part of that, you will directly manage the people in the product management team responsible for the platform focused tribes: Data Automation, App Builder and Cloud Native Transformation. You will influence other members of those tribes by setting out the vision, goals, KPIs & priorities for the platform and ensuring that their strategies enable overall platform success.

You will also partner with members of the tribes on delivery planning – setting the tribe’s key business priorities.

As a senior member of the Product Management team, you will also take responsibility for some of the key product processes – working together with departments like Product Design and Product Operations to ensure the impact that Product Management has on Xceptor.

Your focus will be to maximise the impact your product area has by enabling the Xceptor team and generating momentum and excitement for the opportunities ahead .

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Vision setting

• Clearly sets out the vision for the business area
• Sets out the opportunity associated with the vision (both for our customers and outcomes and opportunity
• Considers and articulates market trends, market standards as well as differentiators for Xceptor
• Evangelises the vision across our customer base, prospects and Xceptor colleagues

Outcome Delivery

• Breaks vision down into outcomes.
• Collaborates on how outcomes are achieved through milestones & features .
• Defines commercial outcomes for each milestone.
• Signs off that features & feature designs fulfil outcomes.
• Selects early adopters and manages client adoption.

Collaboration

• Collaborates with engineering & product stakeholders – including developers, designers & product managers
• Responsible for go to market and collaborating with sales & marketing on the creation of marketing campaigns & sales motions.
• Closes the feedback loop with customers & other parts of Xceptor ( e.g. by owning & chairing cross-functional working groups .)
• Collaborates with other departments on a wide range of topics including legal, partners, pricing

Key competencies

Product management

• B2B Enterprise Product Management
• Developing propositions, market analysis, business cases
• Prioritization, backlog management, ROI
• Stakeholder management
• Launch (go-to-market), Product promotion, Evangelism
• Roll out & trials
• Ability to become a functional expert

Financial services & data automation market

It would be desirable for you to have the following capabilities, or a demonstrated ability to develop them:

• Understanding of operations teams in banks, asset managers & custodians – including operating environment, pain points, concerns & current issues
• Knowledge of key actors, their functions & motivations
• Knowledge of industry, market and competitive trends
• Ability to become a subject matter expert

Technical

• Ability to interact with technically-minded stakeholders
• Appreciation for architecture and technical considerations

People

• Ability to lead and influence diverse teams
• Effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams of varying seniority
• Adapt style to suit needs & situation
• Ability to set goals, hold to account and support employees
• Ability to develop employees – including their skills & knowledge
• People management experience

Associated Values and Behaviors

• Proactive, self-starting ownership of tasks & projects
• Collaborative approach to tasks
• Ability to make decisions under uncertainty
• Growth & learning mindset

This is a great opportunity to join an innovative, fast-paced, highly collaborative, and forward-thinking organisation, during a significant growth phase. Xceptor is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion, or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic, or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Please note:

• Xceptor works with clients in financial services and our offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of background checks, which includes criminal record checks, and credit reference checks.
• If you have any employment gaps exceeding three months within the last six years, we will request additional information and evidence to clarify those periods.