Principal Product Manager (Banking / Fintech / Consulting)

Thoughtworks partners with clients to build impactful digital products which deliver extraordinary customer experiences. We do this by integrating design, strategy and technology. We’re looking for a seasoned product leader, with experience in identifying, launching and scaling new products and product portfolio and with a background in Banking / Financial Services / Fintech and Consulting to join the Customer Experience, Product and Design (CXPD) service line.

• As a trusted advisor to our client’s leadership, you will partner with them to understand their context and needs, make recommendations, and provide advice and hands-on expertise on taking new products from concept to market to scale.

• Drive the innovation mindset and the overall product development lifecycle, utilising lean and hypothesis driven approaches to identify, conceptualise and pilot new products that deliver undeniable value.

• Establish the market & competitive landscape, go to market strategy and business case or economic model for the opportunity with our clients.

• Lead the stakeholders to think about customer’s problems, business outcomes and take them on the change journey of moving to empowered product teams that create strategic growth for the organisation.

• Shape and lead teams to deliver client engagements in a way which is both effective for our client and operationally sound for Thoughtworks.

• Help shape CXPD service line value propositions, creating case studies, points of view and other content through insights on client needs and solutions, and also through defining repeatable practices which will help us to scale our efforts.

• Get involved in pre-sales, creating proposals and pitches, shaping engagements for clients and helping to educate both clients and colleagues about the value of our services.

• Contribute to the growth and scale of our evolving business through taking an active part in recruiting, community building, mentorship and driving continuous improvement in practices and techniques.

Job qualifications

Technical Skills

• 10+ years of experience in leading new ideas from concept to launch and scale with expertise in go-to-market strategy and developing new revenue streams.

• Experience in commercial and economic modelling, including monetisation strategy.

• Experience in bringing an innovation mindset into an organisation at scale and creating sustained innovation investment across strategic horizons.

• Depth in conducting research and bringing market trends, customer and competitive insights to facilitate strategic ideation to identify opportunities for strategic growth.

• Depth and expertise in developing value proposition, using lean approaches to test viability, feasibility and desirable to achieve problem-solution and product-market fit before scaling.

• Demonstrated hypothesis and data driven problem-solving orientation with exceptional ability to create structured quantitative and qualitative analyses.

• Operate at company, portfolio and product level — defining and executing a strategy, shaping a vision and translating it into a roadmap with clear business and customer value-based measures of success.

• Advise clients on becoming a value-driven, customer-centric product organisation and drive the change by introducing best practices in product management, value delivery and measurement and making innovation mainstream.

• Expertise in the end-to-end product development lifecycle, agile and lean software development