Product Manager I- Omega
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About the Role
You’ll be working closely with the leadership and the Olympus product team to build the next generation of cloud-agnostic, modern, scalable, platform products that powers Tachyon and other SaaS products that we sell to Enterprises.
About the Team
Olympus is a comprehensive compute and operations platform for building and operating cloud-native, multi-cloud, secure, distributed multi-tenant SaaS products. Olympus is the platform that powers Zeta’s next-gen credit-card platform (Tachyon Credit) for Issuers.
In Olympus Product team, we build state-of-the-art platform-products for Engineers and SREs and so that they spend less time on operations/building common concerns and more time focussing on the business logic. In Olympus we are breaking the norms and building something that would be the focal point of all financial software that is built for the next 50 odd years atleast. Scale wise we strongly believe that it would be something similar to AWS but for Banking.
Responsibilities
- Ideation
- Understanding the vision, mission and the why of Olympus products
- Speaking to customers such as SREs, DevOps, developers from Tachyon teams to understand what problems do they face and which problems should be solved
- Researching industry trends and products to have a view/understanding of how competitors are building and solving for such problems
- Planning
- Understand the different enterprise user personas and their problems
- Define the goals, scope and use cases for the core feature to be built
- Align the stakeholders on the prioritization and more importantly the ‘why’ of the feature
- Write the product notes, PRDs and add the item to your respective product boards
- Define the UX experiences and capabilities to be built for various banking personas such as Customer Services, Business Operations etc
- Prioritization, Roadmapping & Execution
- Own the roadmap for one or more part of the product
- Apply the lens of strategy, goals and Olympus’ purpose to prioritize problems to solve.
- Slice the capabilities into smaller rapidly shippable features
- Work very closely with Engineering, Operations, Design, Customer Success, Client and Partner teams to get things done.
- Communication
- Evangelize and communicate the product plan
- Influence Engineering Teams and other stakeholders
Skills
- Excellent communication (written and verbal), interpersonal skills and stakeholder management
- A high-agency, can do positive attitude with a high Emotional Quotient (EQ)
- Adapting to complex situations with an aim to achieve business goals
- You conceive possibilities, think big picture, but deliver on the details
- Plus if you read hacker news/TechCrunch and generally have an opinion about products especially tech-first products
Experience and Qualifications
- You have had past development experience in a technology-first role, love coding but have a passion towards product management. An example persona could be a backend, SRE, DevOps engineer who wants to move into product management
- You’ve had a past exposure of building & shipping high quality Enterprise or SaaS products with high levels of ownership
- Strong Understanding of System Design
- An engineering / technical background that will allow you to reason about product trade-offs and make good choices with minimal inputs from engineers. A major in Computer Science is a big plus
Perks of the role
- Opportunity to understand and assimilate how next generation of cloud-native, modern, banking software is built and powered
- Opportunity to create something truly ground-breaking that is going to power the backbone of a majority of banking software that is going to be written for the next few decades
- Opportunity to work with smart colleagues who work on cutting-edge platform products and learn from them
- Opportunity to build a solid foundation in product management for the next 2-3 decades
- Opportunity to build an in depth understanding of various platform products that are cutting edge and straddle payments and banking
Equal Opportunity
Zeta is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, and communities to apply and believe that a diverse workforce is key to our success
