Product Manager

Investment Product Manager

Nutmeg is a J.P. Morgan company offering award-winning investments, products and digital wealth management services to over 250,000 investors in the UK. We built the business from scratch, with constant innovation a core part of our ethos since the beginning. We aim to provide clients with the best digital investing experience, ensuring digital security and customer satisfaction – meaning you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference. 

As a Product Manager at JPMorgan Chase within Nutmeg, you are an integral part of the team that innovates new product offerings and leads the end-to-end product life cycle. As a core leader, you are responsible for acting as the voice of the customer and developing profitable products that provide customer value. Utilizing your deep understanding of how to get a product off the ground, you guide the successful launch of products, gather crucial feedback, and ensure top-tier client experiences. With a strong commitment to scalability, resiliency, and stability, you collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products that exceed customer expectations.

Our Product team is at the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. We're looking for people who have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about building investment products. By their nature, our people are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. We work in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects – and depending on your strengths and interests, you'll have the opportunity to move between them. 

Job responsibilities:

• Develops a product strategy and product vision that delivers value to customers
• Manages discovery efforts and market research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmap
• Owns, maintains, and develops a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition
• Builds the framework and tracks the product's key success metrics such as cost, feature and functionality, risk posture, and reliability
• Build strong and collaborative relationships across different departments, including internal teams (e.g. Product and Engineering, Compliance, Operations and Investments) and with our external partners
• Define and manage a highly organised roadmap and supporting backlog to ensure your team is delivering products that will most positively impact customers and the business
• Be passionate about the Product Development process, always striving to improve how products are built to ensure teams operate to their maximum effectiveness and efficiency
• Support and motivate the Engineering teams with clear and achievable deliverables
• Run assigned agile teams through iterative Discovery and Delivery sprint cycles
• Participate in agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, planning meetings, retrospectives
• Balance business and technical objectives and translate these as clear priorities for the Engineering team

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area
• Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analytics
• Proven ability to lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
• Proven track record of successfully building wealth management products, familiarity with brokerage and mutual funds end-to-end lifecycle 
• Experience working in the delivery of large, complex digital product initiatives with cross-team dependencies 
• Experience with software delivery best practices, working with technical product requirements and mapping of dependencies, design of minimum viable products, working with multi-country requirements 
• Explaining technical issues in a clear way to the business and other stakeholders
• Ability to analyse and incorporate user needs, business needs, and technical constraints/opportunities into the product development process
• Be the glue among departments and create shared understanding by translating ideas & concepts into technical or layman's terms

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor's degree in a technical/ numerical discipline