About Proxymity

Proxymity is bringing technological innovation to the market infrastructure of a long -established sector—Proxy Voting, Shareholder Disclosure, and Identification.

Founded in London and spun out of Citi, from very beginning our mission focused on benefitting the whole eco system, rather than just one part or one player within it. This ethos is endorsed by investment from a unique and global consortium of the industry’s most influential financial institutions.

We currently serve 29 markets and are growing our global footprint fast. With offices in UK, Israel and Australia, our Proxymity Shareholder ID and Vote Connect products can serve all markets globally, with our flagship Vote Connect Total product providing complete end-to-end digital connectivity in 12 key markets around the world. We are a fast-growth company and have already gone from 10 - 230+ employees in the last three years.

Role

We are looking for an experienced product manager with a passion for building disruptive enterprise software products to transform the financial services industry.

As a member of our Product team and acting as product owner, you will drive the expansion of Proxymity’s platform, capabilities and associated revenue, leading on entry into new markets.

You will have a key voice in actively shaping our product strategy, analysing and quantifying new opportunities for product evolution, and working closely with the wider management team to prioritise and lead the agile delivery of new features and solutions.

To succeed in your role, you will have had extensive experience in shipping complex software, utilising innovative technologies and delightful user experience to deliver value to large and demanding customers.

You will have worked in productive collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to move products forward, using your innate and researched understanding of customers’ needs and behaviours to define new capabilities and launch them to market.

We are committed to diversity and to ensuring that our team has a productive mix of views and experience. We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply and help us develop an organisation that is flexible and inclusive.

Responsibilities

• Act as complete product owner for existing and new products and features
• Support products throughout their entire lifecycle – from business case and prototyping to implementation and continuous improvement
• Interview prospects and customers to identify product opportunities and validate them through product discovery

• Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to conduct product research, capturing complex or ambiguous needs and translating them into strategy and deliverables
• Aggregate product requirements and negotiate constraints to deliver simple, intuitive and holistic solutions for customers
• Ensure alignment and effective communication across all relevant stakeholders to facilitate successful product delivery
• Define and embed core metrics and reporting to drive product performance and improvement
• Create customer, market and competitor analyses to explore new growth areas and inform product positioning

• Plan and define product strategy, prioritising roadmap items and implementation schedules in collaboration with commercial and development teams
• Work with technical writers and the marketing to team to create and maintain internal/external facing product documentation
• Act as thought leader and face of the Proxymity product team, for customers, prospects, industry bodies and regulators

Requirements

Essential

• 5+ years of experience, acting as product owner and with a track record of designing and delivering innovative and ambitious new products
• Demonstrable success working with an agile tech team to deliver outcomes
• Clear and concise communicator, comfortable engaging with internal stakeholders as well as external partners and customers
• Understanding and appreciation for superior user experience and UX design processes

• Knowledge of modern product discovery methodologies
• Skill in prioritising and executing in a high pressure scaleup environment
• An innovator’s mindset, excited about creating products that reinvent the industry by transforming existing processes and capabilities
• Strong creative will, resilience and flexibility as well as independent working style
• Problem solving capabilities, attention to detail and commitment to excellence and accuracy

• Cross-functional collaboration, working productively and successfully with sales, post sales, technology, legal, relationship management and operations teams

Desirable

• Experience working on data-related projects (e.g. a database migration)

• Ability to define goals for data that align with the broader organisational vision
• Ability to act as a data authority within an organisation
• Understanding of public company governance, investor relations, proxy voting, share custody, asset servicing, global banking ecosystem

Benefits

• A competitive salary
• An exciting, fast-growth start up environment with excellent career growth opportunities
• Private health insurance
• 25 days holiday
• Bi weekly Yoga lessons
• Subsidised Headspace subscription
• Flexibility to work from home post Covid-19