Senior Product Manager - Documents

9fin; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

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About 9fin

The world's largest asset class, debt, operates with the worst data. Technology has revolutionized equity markets with electronic trading, quant algos and instantaneous news. However, in debt capital markets, the picture is completely different. It still behaves like it's in the 1980s; trillions of dollars of trades are placed over the phone, news is slow, and corporate credit information is imperfect and scattered.

Our mission is to change this. 9fin's proprietary technology delivers fast and comprehensive financial, credit, legal & ESG analysis. Our clients are able to make faster, more informed decisions, win more business and most importantly, save time.

Our fast growing list of clients include 9 of the top 10 Investment Banks, leading Asset Managers, Hedge Funds and Law Firms.

The opportunity

Our Data Design Product & Engineering (DDEP) organisation at 9fin is growing, following our recent $50M series B round! Our product currently comprises of 8 squads with plans to create a new squad in H1 this year. After the recent hiring of our new Chief Product Officer, we are creating a world-class product organisation, and we have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Product Manager to join our London based team.

As a Senior Product Manager in our Documents team, you'll join a newly formed team product squad (which has a Tech Lead, and 2 engineers) focused on Documents. The current team is comprised of an Engineer Manager, one Research Scientist and one Machine Learning Engineer. We are planning to reinforce the team with back-end engineering capacity. Documents are a key pillar of the 9fin platform, and we are addressing cutting edge challenges such as extraction, document understanding and processing across areas from Legal Covenants to reporting of financial metrics. We are looking to take this to the next level with a focus on speed and scale which will have an impact on the whole 9fin platform. This team is focused on creating state-of-the-art technology (document layout segmentation, information extraction problems of the back of layout and general flow of documents). This is a critical team for 9fin enabling many other cross-functional teams, including our effort to lead on generative AI in Debt Capital Markets.

About the key responsibilities

• Strategy: Create an exciting product vision and strategy for your area, working collaboratively with the relevant stakeholder leadership across markets.
• Problem definition and structured thinking: Synthesise insights from various sources to craft a clear problem statement articulating the root cause of a problem in a structured way, demonstrating clarity when aligning the team to the problem.
• Discovery: Identify and use a range of confidence building methods to learn as fast as possible and ensure we build the right product. From this discovery, identify key Use Cases which deliver impact and business value.
• Impact driven: Align the team around the outcome they are working towards and prioritise effectively on multiple dimensions.
• Set up team for success: Create an environment that allows the team to get the best out of their squad by helping to provide wider context, giving clarity on goals, supporting and setting processes for the team to collaborate effectively.
• Measuring success: Proactively identify metrics to track and measure both client and business benefit. Work with stakeholders to implement the right metrics and track this amongst the wider product team.
• Communication: Ensure all people involved are aware of the team strategy, initiatives, priorities and progress.
• Influence: Build relationships easily to empower the squad to achieve the desired outcome, often by influencing the opinions of others often outside of your team.
• Stakeholder management: Work with stakeholders to get the right input/insights, their ideas and ensure that they have the right information to represent the product team into their areas/functions.

About You

This role will be a great fit if you:

• You are a strategic thinker, being able to think both top down and bottom up.
• Possess extensive experience in the Machine Learning (ML) domain, collaborating closely with Data Scientists and demonstrating a strong understanding of the unique requirements and dynamics of ML-driven environments (e.g., recognising that traditional two-week sprint cycles may not always be optimal).
• You have an empathetic leadership style and you build strong, effective relationships.
• Have had relevant experience working in a product management-focused role, ideally with experience on enterprise SaaS and enterprise B2B business.
• Ideally, you would have experience working in high-paced environments (e.g. scale-ups).
• Have an outstanding ability to think on your feet and tackle intellectually challenging problems.
• Relish the chance to work in a cutting edge area of AI/ML with strong discovery capability to identify and prioritise value adding impactful solutions.
• Have had experience in the successful delivery of an ML project into a production environment.
• Be highly analytical and accustomed to using complex data to make decisions.
• Be forward-thinking and ambitious.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, whether to the tech team, to other stakeholders or to our leadership team. Effective in distilling complex solutions into bite-sized pieces when speaking and writing.
• Be a great prioritiser, not afraid to say no.
• Love working autonomously, but you're able to earn the trust of others with a collaborative style.
• Excel at managing stakeholders, whilst also being confident in voicing your own opinions and challenging others.
• You have proven ability to quickly get up to speed in a domain and identify trends and opportunities.

Benefits

We're a scaling start up, and we enjoy sharing our success. When the company succeeds, we always reinvest that in our people. We also offer huge amounts of responsibility, an abundance of opportunity for growth and a platform to truly excel.

Financial & Insurance

• Competitive Salary (our salary bands are benchmarked at the top end of the market)
• Equity options
• Pension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness
• Group Life Assurance
• Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes

Time off

• 25 holiday days per year
• Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days)
• Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work.
• Work abroad for up to 3 months a year.
• 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service.
• Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available.

Training & Culture

• Professional learning and development budget
• Quarterly team socials
• Summer and Winter company social events

9fin is an equal opportunities employer

At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we're looking for - either for this role, or perhaps another.