Principal Technical Product Manager

About Us  

Datasite is a market leading FinTech company that facilitates the largest and highest profile mergers and acquisitions and IPOs in the world. With offices in New York, Paris and London, we work closely with the client-facing teams at the most prominent investment banks, law firms and investment professionals across the globe. They trust us to manage highly confidential information about some of the biggest and most exciting companies on the planet, and they rely on us to facilitate the deals we all read about in the news. 

The Role 

We are looking for an experienced Principal Product Manager to lead the Identity and Access Management (IAM / IDAM) across our platform, supporting seamless and unified user experiences across an ever-growing product suite.  

As a key contributor, you will be detail-oriented, but also capable of seeing the bigger picture. You will have a strong technical background with experience and expertise in user authentication services, and account management. You’re able to craft robust product strategies that translate complex technical concepts into clear value propositions.  

This is an opportunity to innovate in a complex space and will suit someone with a passion for collaboration, problem solving, evidence-based decision-making and building great user experiences. 

Responsibilities 

Product Strategy: Develop and communicate a clear product vision and strategy that aligns with the company's goals and market trends, informed by data-driven insights, customer discovery and feedback.  

OKR Management: Define Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that are data-driven and measurable to assess the success of your product initiatives against the product strategy.  

Roadmap Development: Create, maintain and socialize a product roadmap that outlines feature prioritization, experiments being conducted, release schedules, technical requirements, and dependencies. 

Technical Leadership: Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure the technical feasibility of product features and solutions while providing guidance on technical architecture and design decisions to align with long-term product goals. 

Product Led Growth (PLG): Implement and champion Product Led Growth strategies, fostering a user-centric approach that empowers users to discover, adopt, and derive value from the product independently.  

Experimentation & Data-driven Decision-Making: Design and execute experiments, defining expected outcomes and success metrics to test hypotheses and validate assumptions. Analyse results and use insights to refine product strategies, iterate on features, enhance user experiences, and drive continuous improvement.  

User Experience: Utilize data-driven user feedback and analytics to ensure an exceptional user experience, optimizing features and functionality based on user behavior.  

Prioritization & Backlog Management: Define detailed feature specifications, including epics and user stories, technical requirements, A/B test and acceptance criteria, that can be understood and executed by cross-functional team, in the required order or priority.  

Cross-Functional Collaboration:  Lead and work closely with a cross-functional team through active participation in stand-ups and other Agile ceremonies, fostering collaboration and ensuring alignment required to deliver successful product outcomes.  

Relationship Building & Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with stakeholders, communicate effectively, and create buy-in for product initiatives by ensuring alignment with their goals and needs.  

Stakeholder Communication: Collaborate with internal teams, executives, and other stakeholders to formulate clear hypotheses for product enhancements, new features, or optimizations. Share concepts, roadmaps and progress updates using data to drive transparency and understanding.  

Security & Compliance: Maintain a security-first mindset in the product development process, ensuring robust safeguards, data protection, and compliance with legislation and standards.  

Market Analysis: Perform research to stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitors, using these insights to keep our products competitive and at the forefront of innovation.  

Requirements 

• 7+ years of professional experience as a Product Management 

• Bachelor's degree in a related field (MBA or advanced degree is a plus) 

• Demonstrated experience with IAM/IADM and with aggregating user information across multiple systems 

• Strong technical background, with the ability to communicate effectively with engineering teams 

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to convey technical topics to non-technical audiences 

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority 

• Strong data-driven decision-making skills, with the ability to analyze and interpret data to extract meaningful insights 

• A customer-centric mindset, with the ability to represent the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle 

• Strong problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues or challenges 

• Experience working with cross-functional Agile teams in remote / hybrid environments 

• Experience with software and analytics tools such as Looker, Pendo, and other productivity / collaboration tools such as ProductBoard, JIRA, Slack, Figma, Mural, Office 365 etc.

• A passion for speed, quality, and evidence-based learning and decision-making

Nice to Have 

• Expertise in authentication technologies, identity federation, and access management (OAuth, SAML, SSO, etc.) 

• Familiarity with customer engagement tools, CRM systems, and marketing automation platforms ​