Company Description

As one of the original innovators in lending, credit, fraud, and spend analytics, Verisk Financial integrates one of the industry’s largest sets of data to help banks, financial regulators, retailers, and media companies grow their businesses. We combine data with predictive analytics to uncover new consumer and business insights and integrate this data with the most technologically advanced platforms.

Verisk Financial | Argus is a leading provider of intelligence, decision support solutions, and advisory services to financial institutions across the global commerce ecosystem. Our clients include more than 50 top U.S., Canadian, and other international financial organizations, regulators, payment providers, merchants, and media. Argus is the leading source of segment-level portfolio management benchmarking data, analytics, models, and advisory services. We maximize value delivery to clients by combining proprietary data sets, cutting-edge software and analytic tools, domain expertise, and our unique results-oriented approach. Customers worldwide use our services for tailored data management solutions that include business intelligence platforms, profile views, mobile data solutions, enterprise database services, and fraud risk scoring algorithms for marketing, fraud, and risk mitigation. Our clients gain competitive advantage from our exclusive focus on leveraging global best-in-class analytics and methodologies to help achieve their business and regulatory objectives. To learn more about Argus please visit us at: www.argusinformation.com. We are proud to be a part of the Verisk family of companies! 

At the heart of what we do is help clients manage risk. Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) provides data and insights to our customers in insurance, energy and the financial services markets so they can make faster and more informed decisions.

Our global team uses AI, machine learning, automation, and other emerging technologies to collect and analyze billions of records. We provide advanced decision-support to prevent credit, lending, and cyber risks. In addition, we monitor and advise companies on complex global matters such as climate change, catastrophes, and geopolitical issues.

But why we do our work is what sets us apart. It stems from a commitment to making the world better, safer and stronger.

It’s the reason Verisk is part of the UN Global Compact sustainability initiative. It’s why we made a commitment to balancing 100 percent of our carbon emissions. It’s the aim of our “returnship” program for experienced professionals rejoining the workforce after time away. And, it’s what drives our annual Innovation Day, where we identify our next first-to-market innovations to solve our customers’ problems.

At its core, Verisk uses data to minimize risk and maximize value. But far bigger, is why we do what we do.

At Verisk you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create positive and lasting impact on business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. We have received the Great Place to Work® Certification for the fifth consecutive year. We’ve been recognized by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and a Best Employer for Women, testaments to our culture of engagement and the value we place on an inclusive and diverse workforce. Verisk’s Statement on Racial Equity and Diversity supports our commitment to these values and affecting positive and lasting change in the communities where we live and work.

Job Description

Verisk Financial is currently going through an exciting transformation of its business with the development of a new platformed analytic environment that will support a new and innovative suite of external facing products. Additionally, this initiative is not just about improving and expanding external facing products but changing the way we engage with data and clients – and being at the forefront of our clients’ most critical business decisions. A critical focus of this initiative is to harness insights, strategy and action that lead to measurable impact, leveraging unique data and cutting-edge analytics, powered by a single platform.

The VP, Client Insights Product role will act as one of the key leaders of this initiative, leading the definition, design, development and ongoing management of a new suite of products and capabilities that enable this vision to come to fruition in an efficient, effective and client-informed manner. More specifically, this role will oversee the full suite of reporting and visualization products that help our clients derive insights from our data across multiple financial products (credit cards, deposits, loans) and global markets.

The specific responsibilities associated with this position include:

• Create the long-term product / solution roadmap including a crisp articulation of the product value proposition and vision
• Drive the detailed definition and design of the product suite, leading a cross-functional team to develop the business requirements and user journeys
• Provide oversight for the overall product development process and successful on time delivery working in partnership with the product development and data engineering teams
• Drive go-to-market activities, working with cross-functional colleagues, including product bundling and pricing, marketing positioning and sales collateral, development of internal and external training to support rollout, and rollout strategy
• Develop and manage ongoing process for collecting internal and external product feedback, developing and prioritizing the backlog of new product features and bug fixes
• Perform ongoing market research and competitive intelligence to evaluate market trends, threats, and opportunities which drive the product roadmap
• Act as the overall Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the product to drive awareness and overall usage across the organization
• Develop the business case for new product development and lead communication strategy to gain support from executive management team
• Drive change management process to ensure adoption and optimal usage of the products among the internal teams

Qualifications

• 10+ years of financial services experience required, with experience in credit cards with large banks preferred but not required
• Results-oriented with the demonstrated ability to prioritize deliverables effectively
• Strong ability to influence and able to work across business units and effectively direct work of those they do not manage
• Ability to successfully lead and execute projects; ability to manage and direct a team of experts and to collaborate with other functional areas or teams in the firm towards a successful execution of project deliverables that meets or exceeds client expectations
• Capable of defining strategy while also being detail oriented
• Creative/Builder – can take nascent definition and work to refine and build
• Self-starter – takes initiative; is proactive
• Proven interpersonal and consultative communication skills with well-developed presentation and writing skills
• High degree of data literacy and analytic acumen, specifically within the financial services space
• Product management experience preferred but not required
• Experience with business intelligence tools such as Tableau or PowerBI
• Thrives in a highly competitive environment and is not satisfied unless they and their team are winning and exceeding

Additional Information

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

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