Overview

Are you a successful, creative, driven product manager?  Are you strategic in nature, yet have the ability to get down in the weeds and get stuff done?  Do you love working in an entrepreneurial organization surrounded by like-minded, people, who are fired up about growing a great company?  If this sounds like you, then please, keep reading.

InvestX is a fast-growing, profitable, hi-tech start-up, launched in March 2014. They are backed by a number of institutional investors. InvestX has been featured and covered by the Wall Street Journal, Fin Alternatives, Dow Jones, Globe & Mail, Thomson Reuters, New York Times and others.  InvestX provides wealth managers, financial platforms, and their clients access to private "growth equity" investments like DocuSign, Spotify, UBER, Pinterest, Dropbox, etc. in retail size allotments.

Continued rapid growth has created the need for a passionate, creative, and successful Product Manager.  Leveraging your nimbleness and innovation, you will affirm InvestX’s place in the investment community.  You report to the COO and will be hands-on with all functional areas of the business to define and execute the overall product strategy.

You will build products from existing ideas and develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your ongoing contact with clients and the market. You possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy, a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You enjoy spending time with clients to understand their problems and create innovative solutions for the investment market.

Responsibilities

·         Set product strategy and direction.  Define the product roadmap and market requirements for the short and long term success of the organization.

·         Produce high quality requirements and effectively prioritize and manage the scope of each product launch to deliver key functionality on time and on budget.

·         Create use / test cases as required.

·         Challenge ideas, provide input, engage, solve problems and get stuff done.

·         Work closely and collaboratively with the executive team and other departments (sales, marketing, software engineering, etc.) to drive the product roadmap.

·         Manage the QA team.

·         Develop comprehensive product plans, incorporating market requirements, competitive landscape, and establishing the objectives, strategies, and actions required to achieve business goals.

·         Ensure consistent execution of product lifecycle processes from concept to launch. Deliver value-based prioritization of product development initiatives ensuring maximum ROI and market-driven alignment.  Build solid business cases to support your ideas and product strategy.

·         Define and manage a cross-functional process for prioritizing, delivering and launching product releases.

·         Be the internal and external authority and advocate for the platform.

·         Assure quality standards are being met and that legal documentation requirements are satisfied.

Qualifications

·         5+ years product management experience bringing enterprise software products to market, including experience launching products internationally.

·         Domain expertise in capital markets (or similar) is major asset.

·         Experience defining market and product requirements.

·         Demonstrated track record of success.  Not only do you deliver great products on time, you have exceeded expectations throughout your career.

·         Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment.

·         You are a leader by nature.  People want to work with you, they want to follow you.  You don’t demand respect, your earn it naturally.

·         Proven track record of using data and metrics to define and justify market and product requirements, build business cases, and measure product performance.

·         Ability to present complex information clearly and concisely.

·         Experience and understanding on how to work effectively and cohesively with the software engineering team.

·         Experience managing multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.

·         Fluent English written and oral communication skills.

·         Experience negotiating with, and influencing, stakeholders.

·         Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

·         MBA or advanced degree preferred.

·         Ability to travel as required.

Other

·         Competitive salary, bonus, and ESOP

·         Extended Healthcare and Dental plan

·         Travel as required

Contact

Colin Farrell at      colin@corporate.bc.ca or 604-639-9563 and reference CF-193500R