First Corporate Solutions, Inc.

Product Manager

First Corporate Solutions, Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: California • United States

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About the role

  • Establish Roadmap & Strategy: Manage the Product Roadmap for Ficoso and ensure that it aligns with our corporate strategy and supports our product vision.
  • Build a deep understanding of both our portal and API clients and distill information on market trends, industry developments, competitive landscape, and partner ecosystem to tailor our product strategy.
  • Prepare business cases and executive presentations to gain leadership buy-in on key initiatives and secure investment for larger projects.
  • Prioritize Product Backlog: Act as Product Owner on the agile scrum team and define backlog priorities and focus for each sprint.
  • Collaborate daily with the development team, sales, operations and marketing to build and release new product capabilities.
  • Ensure product requirements, acceptance criteria, and business purpose are clearly articulated with supportive design wireframes as needed.
  • Facilitate usability testing to ensure new features meet customer expectations.
  • Lead User-Driven Innovation: Lead continuous product discovery and assumption testing to uncover new opportunities and ensure product initiatives focus on solving the right problems.
  • Become the user advocate through in-depth customer discovery, client interviews, and user feedback loops.
  • Translate customer need and insight into innovative strategies that strengthen our differentiated customer value.
  • Explore AI-powered solutions that reduce the complexity of traditional processes and offer opportunities to automate user workflows for both our portal and API clients.
  • Spearhead Release Communication: Partner with marketing colleagues to establish effective go-to-market strategies and refine messaging for each customer segment.
  • Announce product updates internally and translate technical features into compelling product benefits for both technical and non-technical customer audiences.
  • Determine most effective communication channels and methods.
  • Optimize Data, Client, and Fulfillment Integrations: Work with jurisdictions and data providers nationwide, including Secretary of State offices, to review contracts and proactively keep up with relevant legislation and data acquisition opportunities.
  • Evaluate and pursue opportunities to optimize our API capabilities and integrated offerings for both partners and direct integrators.
  • Own and prioritize enhancements to our internal Ficoso-related applications that streamline order fulfillment.

Requirements

  • Accomplished product manager with strong product sense and capacity to translate customer insight into technical requirements that drive innovation and strengthen differentiated value for customers.
  • Proven track record of successfully managing and releasing software products, preferably in B2B SaaS.
  • 2y+ as a product manager, senior product manager, associate product manager, or product owner.
  • 5y+ of total relevant experience in product management, product marketing, design, engineering, business analytics, customer research, customer success, and/or business development.
  • Bachelor's degree in business, design, engineering, or equivalent experience/certificates.
  • MBA preferred.
  • Prior experience in any of the following areas is a plus: Underwriting, risk management, compliance, legal services, public records such as UCC, financial or information services, loan origination systems, core banking systems, equipment financing, banking, or factoring.
  • Proficient with essential software design and development concepts, APIs, and data management.
  • Familiar with agile scrum methodology for software development and product lifecycle management.
  • Self-starter with capacity to prioritize, lead, measure and optimize multiple simultaneous initiatives.
  • Empathetic collaborator able to create cross-group alignment and engagement.
  • Outstanding verbal, written and visual communicator.
  • Experienced working with software integration partners, contractors and agencies.
  • AI certifications or product certifications such as CPM, PMC, PSPO, CSPO or similar are a plus.
  • Experience with LLMs and/or AI-powered solutions is a plus.
  • Familiar with typical product management software such as Jira, Aha!, and analytics software.
  • Thrives in a flexible remote work environment and able to collaborate mainly on PST time zone.
  • Willing to travel a few times a year in the US for conferences, team meetings or customer visits.
  • Authorized to work in the US.
  • West Coast candidates preferred.
Benefits
  • Annual salary with generous benefits package
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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementsoftware developmentAPIsdata managementagile scrum methodologybusiness analyticscustomer researchuser experience designproduct marketingsoftware integration
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationprioritizationinnovationcustomer advocacypresentation skillsempathyself-startercross-group alignment
Certifications
AI certificationsCPMPMCPSPOCSPOMBAproduct certifications