Principal Product Manager (Consulting & Banking or Fintech)

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential consultancy seeking a Principal Product Manager with deep expertise in banking and fintech. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, guiding them through end-to-end product development and transformation initiatives.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Partnering with C-level stakeholders to understand business context, provide strategic recommendations, and deliver hands-on expertise in launching and scaling new products or reimagining existing portfolios
• Driving innovation across the product development lifecycle using lean, hypothesis-driven approaches and establishing effective product operating models
• Defining market landscape, competitive positioning, go-to-market strategy, and business cases for new opportunities
• Leading stakeholder groups through the transition to empowered, customer-centric product teams that deliver strategic growth
• Managing large, complex programmes across multiple workstreams, owning strategy, roadmap, scope and outcomes end to end
• Contributing to pre-sales activities, creating proposals and pitches, and shaping client engagements
• Developing thought leadership content including case studies, points of view, and repeatable practices to scale service delivery
• Advising clients on meaningful AI applications across the product lifecycle, from research and discovery through delivery and measurement
• Identifying opportunities to expand client relationships into new engagements and revenue streams

What We're Looking For

Essential Experience:

• 10+ years of product leadership experience building, launching and scaling products and establishing high-performing product organizations
• Proven track record leading large-scale, complex programmes with senior stakeholder groups
• Background in consultancy and banking or fintech sectors
• Experience in commercial and economic modelling, including monetization strategy
• Demonstrated ability to embed innovation mindset at scale and create sustained innovation investment across strategic horizons
• Expertise in market research, customer insights and competitive analysis to identify strategic growth opportunities
• Strong foundation in lean approaches to test viability, feasibility and desirability before scaling
• Ability to operate at company, portfolio and product levels, defining strategy and translating vision into roadmaps with clear value-based success measures
• Fluency in AI and its practical application across product development, comfortable evaluating and advising on AI-enabled tools and approaches

Professional Skills:

• Skilled at building relationships with C-suite executives and driving conversations at the intersection of technology and business
• Experience with consultative selling, diagnosing client needs and building trusted-advisor relationships
• Ability to formulate and deliver insights around complex business problems in a thoughtful, persuasive manner
• Strong interpersonal skills including active listening, influencing and excellent written and verbal communication
• Passionate about being a visible external voice through speaking engagements, industry panels or publications
• Collaborative mindset with strong lean towards working with multidisciplinary teams
• Curious and open approach to challenging established ways of working, energized by reimagining product development for an AI-enabled era

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your application and conduct an initial screening to understand your background and career goals. We will then submit qualified candidates to our client for consideration. Please note that you should not contact the client directly during this process. Our recruiters will be your primary point of contact and will guide you through each stage of the hiring process, from initial conversations through to offer.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience and qualifications.

Location: London

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