Vestmark Associate Product Manager supporting development and enhancement of investing and wealth management products. Owns product backlog and partners with internal teams to improve operational efficiency and automation.
Responsibilities
Product Development & Roadmap Support
Contribute to the product roadmap by gathering and synthesizing input from customers, stakeholders, and data.
Document clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with senior team members.
Conduct competitive research and user interviews to surface insights that inform product decisions.
Identify opportunities to unify user workflows across platform capabilities, incorporating AI-based functionality.
Product Owner Responsibilities
Own and maintain the product backlog for assigned workstreams, ensuring stories are well-defined, estimable, and ready for development.
Prioritize and sequence the backlog based on business value, dependencies, and stakeholder input, making day-to-day trade-off calls and escalating larger scope decisions to senior leadership.
Write and refine detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and definition of done, serving as the primary point of contact for engineering questions during a sprint.
Maintain epic- and release-level tracking in Jira/Confluence, keeping status, risks, and blockers visible to cross-functional partners.
Internal Operations & VOS Partnership
Work closely with the Vestmark Outsourced Services team to understand day-to-day back-office operations
Qualification
Eagerness to learnPrior exposure to back-officeBachelor’s degree in BusinessIn addition to base salary
Required
2-3 years of product management experience, ideally within fintech, financial services, or a technology-driven environment; experience acting as a product owner (backlog ownership, sprint ceremonies, acceptance criteria) is a plus.
Basic familiarity with investing or wealth management concepts such as account types, portfolios, or advisory services.
Exposure to agile methodologies and tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar platforms.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to synthesize information and present it clearly
Eagerness to learn, take ownership, and grow in a structured and supportive environment.
Comfort partnering with internal operations teams to learn manual, process-heavy workflows and translate them into product requirements.
Preferred
Experience contributing to a consumer-facing digital product from discovery through launch.
Comfort working with data and metrics to support product decisions; basic SQL or BI tool familiarity is a plus.
Exposure to regulated industries or compliance-sensitive product development.
Prior exposure to back-office, operations, or business process outsourcing (BPO) environments.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field.
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Vestmark takes a market-based approach to compensation to ensure we pay fairly and competitively. Compensation for this role depends on several factors such as skills, experience, qualifications, job scope and location.
In addition to base salary, Vestmark offers a comprehensive total rewards package, which includes, company-paid medical premiums of 90%, a competitive time-off program, and other variable compensation, if eligible.
