Product Manager (Temp to Perm)

Fora Financial is a technology-enabled leading provider of flexible financing to small and medium sized businesses. They are seeking a Product Manager to join their Agile team, responsible for building an internal product development capability and managing product initiatives that create long-term economic value.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the product management lifecycle including technical requirements, success criteria, product implementation, and launch
• Own and manage assigned product and project initiatives and issues/bugs, addressing prioritization and contentions
• Work closely with Business, Product, and Technology stakeholders for prototyping, technical development, and delivery of products, ensuring new ideas leverage the company’s proprietary technology platform
• Perform as Product Owner for Agile sprint delivery, managing requirements, acceptance criteria, stakeholder signoffs, and prioritization of user stories, bugs, and issues
• Drive BAU operational enhancements, including analysis, issue prioritization, and ongoing requirements management
• Own business requirements gathering and management throughout the Agile delivery lifecycle and convey requirements clearly to technical resources for implementation
• Elicit, organize, and translate business-level and functional requirements while probing stakeholders to ensure appropriate detail and definition of success metrics
• Perform as Product Owner for a sprint and Scrum team, prioritizing and grooming the backlog based on Prioritization Committee decisions
• Confirm interpretation of requirements with stakeholders followed by clear user story communication and clarification for technology teams
• Develop and execute independent verification and validation test cases and plans, including production-based operational acceptance testing
• Obtain level-of-effort estimates from development engineering teams, manage resourcing contentions, and communicate updates to the Project Prioritization Committee
• Act as a liaison between key business stakeholders and technical resources
• Partner closely with the Project Manager / Scrum Master

Requirements:

• Track record of delivering high-value products in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
• Experience within financial services, FinTech, or technology-related industries; knowledge of the SMB customer and market is a plus
• Experience driving business-centric product strategy, roadmapping, requirements management, and execution across a fast-moving organization
• Diverse skill set demonstrating a strategic mindset, attention to detail, cross-functional literacy, technology fluency, and financial proficiency
• Strong project management and leadership skills with the ability to direct cross-functional initiatives and influence senior stakeholders
• Ownership mentality and accountability for driving business impact in a data-informed, experiment-driven product culture, ideally within SMB or consumer growth environments