Senior Manager, Product Management – Equity Management

insightsoftware is a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions that empower leaders from over 32,000 organizations. They are seeking a Senior Manager of Equity Product Management to lead a team of Product Owners focused on core capabilities within the Certent Equity Management platform, ensuring clarity and alignment while driving product management excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Directly manage a team of Product Managers responsible for equity plan administration, ESPP, broker connectivity, and batch processing within the Equity product organization
• Set clear goals and performance expectations, conduct regular one-on-ones, and provide ongoing coaching and feedback
• Identify skill development opportunities and support team members in growing their product management capabilities and equity domain expertise
• Foster a collaborative, high-accountability team culture aligned with insightsoftware's core values
• Coordinate roadmap planning and prioritization across Admin, ESPP, Broker, and Batch Processing domains, ensuring dependencies are identified, communicated, and resolved proactively
• Partner with the Director/VP of Product to align the domain roadmap with broader Equity product strategy and company objectives
• Facilitate cross-domain planning sessions to align Product Owners on shared data models, release timelines, participant workflow touchpoints, and integration points with downstream systems
• Own the team's intake and prioritization process, balancing competing customer requests, regulatory requirements, broker partner needs, and strategic initiatives
• Monitor delivery progress across all workstreams, identifying and removing blockers that impede team velocity
• Serve as an escalation point for cross-functional issues involving engineering, Professional Services, broker partners, Compliance, or go-to-market teams
• Ensure that PRDs and product specifications produced by the team meet the quality bar required for financial services SaaS — particularly for transaction-sensitive areas such as ESPP enrollments, broker settlement workflows, and batch-driven corporate actions
• Drive consistency in product management practices, documentation standards, and Agile ceremonies across the team
• Represent the product team in leadership forums, sprint reviews, and cross-functional planning sessions
• Partner with Engineering leadership to manage capacity, dependencies, and technical debt across administration and platform processing initiatives
• Collaborate with Professional Services on escalated customer implementation challenges related to plan setup, ESPP configurations, broker integrations, and batch job troubleshooting
• Work with Product Marketing on coordinated release communications for features spanning admin, participant experience, broker, and batch processing surfaces
• Engage with key customers and customer advisory groups to gather strategic input on administration capabilities, ESPP usability, broker connectivity, and batch processing reliability
• Support Sales in strategic deal cycles involving core platform capabilities, including RFP responses and executive-level presentations
• Serve as a senior equity administration domain spokesperson for external partners, broker relationships, analyst relations, and industry events

Requirements:

• 5+ years of progressive experience in product management, with at least two years in a people management or team lead capacity
• 5+ years of experience in equity management, equity compensation, or financial services SaaS
• Proven track record of leading multi-domain product teams and coordinating cross-functional delivery programs
• Demonstrated ability to develop and coach product management talent
• Exceptional communication, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills
• Solid understanding of equity administration domains, including plan setup and maintenance, ESPP lifecycle management, broker transaction workflows, and large-scale batch processing operations
• Familiarity with equity compensation plan types (stock options, RSUs, RSAs, ESPP, performance awards) and the data structures that underpin equity administration platforms
• Ability to engage credibly with engineering leadership on architecture, data modeling, API integrations, and batch processing trade-offs
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and product management frameworks at scale
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or a related field required
• CEP (Certified Equity Professional) certification is a plus
• MBA or similar advanced degree preferred
• Experience managing product teams across multiple concurrent workstreams in equity administration or financial services platforms
• Familiarity with equity administration platforms such as Certent Equity Management
• Experience working with broker partners and transfer agent integrations
• Experience in a high-growth, acquisition-oriented SaaS company