Staff Product Manager (Equity Foundations)

About the Role:

As a Staff Product Manager (reporting into the Head of Product) your job is to help us make equity work for our customers. Your primary focus will be to scale the most foundational parts of our platform as we expand across new markets globally and move upmarket to serve the largest public businesses: equity types, transactions and vesting. You will balance simplicity and flexibility while ensuring data accuracy and driving adoption of these core components through other teams.

At Ledgy you will:

• Develop a deep understanding of the equity management market as well as our customers, their pains and jobs-to-be-done. Over time, become a subject matter expert for your domain and act as point of contact for internal and external stakeholders
• Systematically analyze qualitative customer feedback, quantitative usage data and product gaps in collaboration with Design, Engineering and customer-facing business partners
• Define the vision and strategy for the heart of our product (transactions & effects, vesting and other foundational building blocks), in collaboration with product and engineering leadership
• Define, plan, and execute a roadmap to bring our equity and cap table management to the next level so that finance and legal teams can trust their equity data is accurate and compliant
• Align your team around strategic goals, relevant KPIs, and track success metrics for measuring impact
• Break down complex problems and write clear documentation in collaboration with Design, Engineering, financial reporting experts, and product leadership
• Manage product delivery in an agile setting and support your team in all sprint activities
• Drive product launches through cross-functional work with Product Marketing and other go-to-market teams
• Support shaping the future of our product best practices to achieve the best business outcomes

In the first 30 days:

• Be paired with an onboarding buddy who will introduce you to the world of equity management as well as the whole Ledgy team
• Get to know the Equity Foundations team engineers, design and domain experts
• Understand the complexity, breadth and depth of Ledgy as a platform
• Watch call recordings, shadow customer & prospect calls and get in front of your first real customer
• Start contributing to roadmap discussions with guidance from team members

In the first 60 days:

• Develop a deep understanding of the regulatory and business requirements our customers face
• Fully master Ledgy's value proposition, understand our product capabilities and competitive landscape
• Understand the data models and key architectural patterns that power Ledgy and their dependencies
• Take ownership of key features and product initiatives
• Lead sprint planning and collaborate on technical specifications

In the first 90 days:

• Help shape the technical and product direction of our core product
• Create a vision to power the evolution of our platform to support enterprise-scale customers with a global footprint that balances simplicity and flexibility while ensuring data accuracy
• Contribute to PM best practices

The job is a great fit if you:

• Have a minimum of 8+ years experience in Product Management, building customer-facing B2B SaaS products
• Have relevant experience working with cross-functional teams in an agile setting applying Scrum
• Understand financial systems and compliance frameworks
• Have scaled complex products across jurisdictions in regulated or compliance heavy spaces (e.g. banking, payroll, etc). You don’t shy away from detailed legal documentation and specs.
• Are a fast learner and have a strong technical understanding and passion to solve deep problems
• Think horizontally, can easily spot dependencies and seek opportunities to improve the platform holistically
• Have a strong sense of accountability, ownership and outstanding solution focus
• Break down silos and work collaboratively in a result-oriented way
• Are well versed with AI tools that increase your and the team’s efficiency, allow you to move fast and focus on what really matters
• Have excellent verbal and written communication and story telling skills; fluent in English

Nice to Haves:

• Background in financial services or Fintech
• Technical background, e.g. Masters in Engineering etc
• Previously worked as a PM in a horizontal / platform-adjacent type of team
• Prior experience with equity management