Director Of Product Management

Job Summary

The Director of Product Management will establish the vision, 12-month roadmap, and execution strategy for the Portfolio Monitoring business line. This professional balances deep agile engineering delivery with white-glove client interactions, translating large-scale customization requests from institutional allocators into scalable, repeatable SaaS product features.

Key Roles & Operational Responsibilities

1. Vision, Strategy, and Market Intelligence

• Own the global product vision, overarching strategy, and 12-month rolling roadmap for the Portfolio Monitoring line, aligning development velocity with corporate revenue targets.
• Anchor the annual strategic planning process with business unit executives, delivering structured intelligence on technology feasibility, competitor tracking, and quantitative market sizing.
• Standardize market and competitive intelligence into an ongoing internal function, replacing anecdotal sales feedback with rigorous, data-driven feature prioritization.

2. Institutional Client Interfacing & Solution Scoping

• Act as the primary technical and product voice during advanced enterprise sales cycles, managing complex RFP responses, platform demonstrations, and solution scoping workshops.
• Partner with Sales and Customer Success teams to define account-specific onboarding and implementation architectures for Tier-1 institutional clients.
• Extract specific customization requirements from enterprise accounts and convert them into generic, architectural building blocks to ensure core product scalability.

3. Engineering Squad Leadership & Multi-Team Delivery

• Oversee and direct multiple agile squads dedicated to the portfolio monitoring track, optimizing sprint health, cross-team dependencies, and delivery predictability.
• Author and refine high-level epic definitions, complex data architecture requirements, and product requirement documents (PRDs).
• Mentor, train, and expand the product management team, championing a culture rooted in client empathy, financial precision, and rigorous validation.

4. Ecosystem & Go-To-Market Execution

• Collaborate with Marketing and Commercial leaders to establish enterprise software pricing frameworks, clear market positioning, and product differentiation.
• Architect and manage strategic integration partnerships with external financial data networks, custodian banks, and specialized technology vendors.

Foundational Capabilities & Prerequisites

Required Technical Profile & Experience

• Professional Experience: 10+ years of product management experience within the B2B enterprise software or financial technology sectors, with at least 5 years operating in a high-touch, client-facing product role.
• Capital Markets Domain Expertise: Direct, deep domain knowledge in alternative investments, private equity, private credit, asset management, or financial data structures.
• Financial Analytics Literacy: In-depth structural understanding of portfolio monitoring workflows, including fund accounting conventions, cash flow modeling, investor reporting, and core private market performance metrics (IRR, TVPI,DPI).
• Commercial Capability: Strong competency working alongside sales teams inside enterprise software sales pipelines (demos, discovery workshops, contract scoping).
• Execution Frameworks: Expert-level command over agile software development lifecycles, cross-functional engineering management, and modern product roadmapping tools.
• Communication Profile: Native or business-level fluency in English, with the poise and technical capability required to engage credibly with C-level executives and portfolio managers.

Preferred Technical Attributes

• Vendor Track Record: Prior product leadership experience at a direct private market software competitor.
• Advanced Technologies: Practical exposure to integrating AI/machine learning data extraction models or advanced quantitative modeling architectures into consumer-facing platforms.
• Academic Pedigree: MBA or an advanced quantitative graduate degree in Finance, Financial Engineering, or Economics.
• Multilingualism: Professional fluency in German or another major European language.

What the CEPRES Placement Offers

• Top-Tier Market Positioning: Lead the product strategy for an industry-standard platform connecting thousands of professionals within the private capital ecosystem.
• True Product Ownership: Direct autonomous agile squads while driving high-impact, multi-million dollar institutional client solutioning.
• Modern Operational Culture: Work within a decentralized, international footprint that rewards entrepreneurial execution, deep technical curiosity, and work flexibility.

Skills Required:

• Computer / Software / It / Data
• Sales / Marketing / Business / Management