Mortgage & Housing Product Manager

About the position

Equifax is seeking a product manager who has a desire to work on a winning team dedicated to providing customers with the right resources to help them succeed. Responsible for the overall performance of the product, overseeing it from inception and ideation through design, build, launch, growth, enhancement and eventual sunset. Creates product roadmap and identifies delivery channels, direction of product and product development needs. Influencing and collaborating with others in cross functional teams (D&A, technology, sales, fulfillment, product marketing, finance, legal) to define product requirements ultimately bringing products to market.

Responsibilities

• Drive and socialize overall Market Understanding including market analysis and industry research.
• Evaluate competitive landscape and utilize understanding of competitors to identify and articulate high-potential opportunities.
• Conduct market validation through review and testing of concepts with existing and prospective customers (voice of customer, customer advisory).
• Help lead and manage our mortgage products into the future, aligning products to the FHFA announcements around adding new scores and optional 2 bureau credit files.
• Assess opportunities for, and own development of, strategic partnerships; Define product requirements considering market needs, build, buy, partner approaches.
• Facilitate development of commercial model and packaging discussions.
• Understand and communicate the product vision; Support development of business cases and define product roadmap used in product strategy and planning sessions across the Product Delivery Value Stream.
• Track attainment of objectives through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Provide descriptions and write requirements definition for product development; Prepare for and support product release; Contribute to prioritization of opportunities & product trade-offs.
• Track, monitor and ensure effective performance of the product including attainment of revenue and margin objectives; Manage product offerings to ensure new capabilities meet customer/market needs; Collect, analyze and interpret data to reach conclusions and/or present insights and findings to drive product lifecycle management decisions including enhancements and sunsetting.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline strongly preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 5-7 years of product management or business analyst experience working in a product-led organization within Technology, Financial Services or Data & Analytics required.
• Demonstrated working experience using Agile methodologies and/or project management methodologies required.
• Experience writing detailed product requirements is fundamental and required and must demonstrate a solid understanding of what we are building, who we are building it for, why it's important and how it is being used to solve problems (ROI).
• Demonstrated ability to organize and coordinate efforts in a highly matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of delivering cloud-based products and services strongly preferred.
• Experience in Product tools preferable (Aha, JIRA, Figma).
• Experience demonstrating Design Thinking for innovation is a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Previous experience in Mortgage or Housing products.