Product Manager (Capital Markets)

About the company:

Ventura is an omnichannel trading and investment platform with a nationwide network of branches, sub-brokers, and digital channels. Founded in 1994, the company is now in its next phase of growth, driven by a digital-first, direct-to-consumer strategy.

To accelerate this transformation, Ventura has built a dedicated fintech vertical focused on digital innovation, modern platforms, and data-led marketing.

Join us if you like:

• Drive product strategies and long-term vision to build best-in-class trading and investment products
• Conduct user research and usability studies, collaborating with designers and developers from end to end of the process.
• Ability to craft a product vision (short to long term) and convert that into a concrete strategy and documentation
• Participate in market research, validation, and whitespace analysis to identify new opportunities for new and existing features and functionalities
• Partner with business owners and agile product teams to build product roadmaps that will be incorporated in to the broader company product portfolio plan
• Evaluate, analyze, and understand the voice of the customer through a variety of data sources
• Manage the product roadmap and backlog for assigned digital products
• Oversee and manage lead requirements discovery, solution design, user story writing, feature development, and user acceptance testing
• Partner with the executive teams to identify key capabilities needed, as well as identify potential issues
• Partner with cross-functional teams regularly to ensure alignment on feature development and prioritisation
• Partner with IT to manage the roadmap and backlog to ensure that IT delivers all capabilities on time and per expectation
• Work with product marketing to develop positioning and messaging to ensure differentiation from competitors
• Monitor and evaluate product performance to ensure constant product iteration and improvements

What you'll need to bring:

• 5+ years of experience in digital product management or similar
• Strong analytical, prioritisation, and negotiating skills
• Usability and customer-focused design experience a plus
• Passionate about building great products and solving customer and business problems.
• Strong knowledge of Equity, Derivatives, Currency and Commodities markets
• Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence is desirable.
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field  
• Masters degree is preferred 
• Experience writing SQL queries, and exposure to back-end and front-end programming languages, such as Java, HTML, CSS, and AngularJS is an added advantage