Sr Technical Product Manager

About this role

About the Company

Our client is an established consumer lending company with offices in the Loop, a few blocks from both LaSalle Street Station and Union Station, with most CTA lines within walking distance. In the Financial Services space, they are currently expanding into new states. The internal development team has real longevity, including two senior developers who have been with the company for eight years and are treated as full members of the team. This is a direct hire role on a team where people stay.

About the Role

You will be paired with one or more business departments and own the pipeline of work from idea through monitored release. That means acting as a sounding board, shaping opportunities into scoped initiatives, and staying accountable through launch. The work is hands on. You will write the specs, do the analysis, work directly in the data, and learn the systems well enough to catch a flawed design before it gets built.

Hybrid schedule with two days onsite, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

What You'll Do

• Learn your department's goals, processes, and data well enough to pressure test proposals and raise concerns before decisions are finalized
• Bring opportunities to the business as well as receive them, including manual work that should be automated, redundant systems that should be retired, and metrics nobody is watching
• Shape those opportunities into initiatives with a defined problem, an expected outcome, and a measurable result
• Own intake, definition, and sequencing of your department's work with the development teams
• Write specifications and tickets any available engineer can build from, and break large efforts into pieces that can ship independently
• Keep backlogs and roadmaps accurate, and drive committed work to closure
• Coordinate the departments a project depends on and hold the dependencies and sign offs, including design and launch of regulated changes
• Define and track key metrics, and use data to tell a story bus...