Product Manager Jobs in Dublin (No ghost jobs, direct from employers)

At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you're passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team.

We are looking for an innovative and proactive Product Owner Consultant to enhance our Wealth Management applications. Prior domain expertise in finance, lending or banking applications is strongly preferred.

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Product Management, this role is key in turning high-level strategic visions into actionable plans for our agile development team.

As the bridge between our Product and Business teams, you will convert intricate insights into comprehensive system requirements, facilitating smooth development and QA processes. These requirements will also serve as essential resources for our clients as they test and implement new or enhanced features. You will regularly engage with clients, and collaborate directly with development, QA, and client services teams, leading projects with a focus on innovation and excellence.

This is a 12-month consultancy contract with the possibility of an extension.

Responsabilities

Key Job Functions

• Manage the requirements walk-through with Development prior to commencement of coding
• Manage the requirements walk-through with QA prior to commencement of testing
• Identify potential risks to project deliverables and suggest and manage risk mitigation strategy
• Analyze conflicting requirements from different users, prioritize them, and develop business-oriented software requirements
• Resolve any oversights or ambiguities in the original specification
• Review the finished product with customers and confirm that all business requirements have been met

Backlog Management:

• Develop and manage a comprehensive product backlog, ensuring it reflects the product vision and priorities.
• Break down complex projects and features into smaller, manageable components, with clear and concise user stories.
• Prioritize the backlog based on business value, dependencies, and stakeholder needs, maintaining alignment with strategic objectives.
• Ensure that development teams always have an adequate amount of clear and actionable tasks, facilitating efficient workflow.

Product Development:

• Lead agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, review, demo, and retrospectives.
• Define acceptance criteria and ensure they're met during testing phases, refining user stories and backlog items as needed.

QA & Performance Monitoring:

• Work with the QA department testing projects as required including documentation of Test Strategies, Test Cases and Test Results
• Monitor and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) and user feedback to determine feature success and areas for improvement.
• Adjust product strategies based on insights derived from real-time user data.

Documentation & Communication:

• Prepare and maintain clear and concise product documentation, including user guides and system requirements.
• Act as the primary point of contact for all aspects of your product, including updates and changes.
• Effectively communicate progress to senior leadership

Requirements

• 3-5 years' experience in building SaaS products with similar role in an agile environment
• Experience in the finance, fintech or lending sector is highly preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, business writing, developing and delivering presentations.
• Strong analytical skills, ability to grasp new concepts quickly and adapt to situations.
• Strong time management skills, ability to work under pressure and ability/willingness to learn.
• Proven track record in gathering definition and specification of requirements and excellent documentation skills producing Business Requirements, Functional Requirement or User Stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Sound understanding of the software development lifecycle models and methodologies.
• Flexible to work in shift that has partial overlap with North America.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., business, computer science, engineering)
• Training in system integration life cycle methodologies

Skills/Tools:

• Expertise in following a SDLC process and a continuous improvement advocate during a Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) as well as project methodologies, including waterfall and Agile.
• Testing skills including creating business test cases and building test plans
• Seasoned at daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, backlog prioritization, user story preparation and demos.
• Interpersonal skills including building consensus, negotiation and facilitation with leadership
• Proficiency in MS Office suite of applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
• Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, flowchart applications

Hybrid Flexible at Broadridge

We are made up of high-performing teams that meet in person to learn and collaborate as needed. This role is considered hybrid.

#LI-Hybrid

#LI-LM1

We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work. We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company-and ultimately a community-that recognizes and celebrates everyone's unique perspective.

Use of AI in Hiring

As part of the recruiting process, Broadridge may use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools, to help review and evaluate applications. These tools are used only to support our recruiters and hiring managers, and all employment decisions include human review to ensure fairness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable laws. Please note that honesty and transparency are critical to our hiring process. Any attempt to falsify, misrepresent, or disguise information in an application, resume, assessment, or interview will result in disqualification from consideration.