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