About the job

Product Manager

About Tassat

Tassat Group Inc. is a NY-based technology company that is the leading provider of private permissioned blockchain-based solutions for commercial banks including TassatPay, which enables banks to provide their customers with instantaneous, secure, real-time payments 24/7/365. TassatPay has become the most trusted blockchain-based Platform for the banking industry and its B2B customers with over $600 billion in secure, real-time transactions to date. Tassat has added Smart Contracts and Fedwire functionality to make TassatPay a one-stop-shop for B2B Payments. In 2021, Tassat won a Google Cloud Customer Award for Innovation in Financial Services.

For more information, visit us at www.tassat.com on Twitter or on LinkedIn.

The Role

Tassat is seeking a Product Manager. This individual needs to be a self-starter with a delivery mindset and a team first attitude. A strong understanding of the relevant business drivers, processes and functions for a given business line, such as Banking, B2B Payments, Treasury Services, Capital Markets, Securities Services or Asset Management is a must. Additionally, this person should be comfortable interacting with a variety of people, including senior business leaders, external service providers, and internal engineering teams to define, develop and deliver solution. Lastly, we hope you will have a passion for blockchain and the desire to improve upon existing infrastructure. This role reports to our CPO.

What You Own

• Gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements
• Defining the product vision
• Working closely with engineering, sales, marketing, and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met
• Ensuring that the product supports the company's overall strategy and goals
• Work with engineering counterparts to define and document product release requirements and assist in defining the testing framework
• Collaborate with marketing to:
• Define the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and Client
• Develop sales tools and collateral
• Serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product offering, occasionally working with the sales channel and key customers
• Use Scrum and other agile practices and expect product managers to participate in improving our processes and practices
• Work collaboratively in our team environment, communicating with all areas of the company
• Assist with the definition the product strategy and roadmap, helping to establish key priorities.
• Specify market requirements for current and future products based on market intelligence; this information will be gathered from regularly scheduled visits to clients as well as from another client facing personnel
• Run pilot programs with early-stage products and samples; leverage early-stage feedback as a basis for future enhancements
• Work with the support and infrastructure teams to solve client issues that occur in production and UAT
• Be the client facing liaison for the firm
• Work hand in hand with the development team to resolve issues found during the development process regarding the implementation of the requirements
• Analyze potential partner relationships for the product; work with closely with partners to assist them with the roll out of new product versions as well as new offerings
• Possess/acquire a strong understanding of the competitive landscape and how to position the firm's products against its primary competitors
• Continually evaluate the core positioning and messaging for the product
• Brief and train the sales team on new and existing product offerings and assist sales team with the high opportunity trials

What You Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or Engineering from an accredited institution. MBA preferred
• 10-15 years of software product management/development experience
• Experience working within the blockchain and digital assets ecosystem, ideally within a company that is focused on tokenized assets or enabling applications to be built on top of blockchain platforms.
• Exposure to a broad range of financial products with an understanding of the structures that enable trading and settlement of equities, commodities, derivatives and other financial instruments in both the traditional and non-traditional financial world
• Experience operating in highly regulated industries (e.g., Banking, FinTech, Digital Assets and Blockchain)
• You are execution focused, action-oriented and pay attention to detail
• You have strong verbal and written presentation skills - converting ideas into well-articulated, visually impactful presentations is your thing!
• You are able to act independently and take initiative but work equally well within a dynamic and fast paced team environment
• Ideally you have a solid understanding of distributed ledger technology and related applications, including a technical understanding of cryptocurrency technology
• Experience with (and understanding of) the B2B/Commercial payments ecosystems as well as research capabilities
• Knowledge of payments markets and treasury management tools including models, risk analytics, and performance attribution.
• Solid mathematical aptitude
• A complete understanding of the SDLC process and how it is applied both for Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Bonus points if you spend time thinking about how to build the new (financial) world!

Working with Us

Tassat is proud to offer an incredible Benefits Package for full-time Tassat Employees. This includes:

• 100% coverage on Health (with a Health Reimbursement Account) Dental, Vision Insurance
• Short Term Disability, Life & ADD, Long Term Disability
• Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, Parental Leave
• 401(k) program, Company Equity
• Transit and Parking Pre-tax savings
• FSA Dependent Care, FSA Health Pre-tax savings

At Tassat, you will work with incredibly talented engineers, market experts, and thought leaders to shape the future of a financial ecosystem. We offer a uniquely entrepreneurial, supportive culture, where ideas can come from anywhere and execution is everything.

• We understand the importance of autonomy, mastery, and purpose
• We strive to be extremely transparent, organizationally flat, and open-minded. While you will have clearly delineated responsibilities, you are welcome and encouraged to contribute beyond those areas. We value ideas and results, not ranks and titles
• We believe great results can only come from great people. If you’re interested in working alongside people wo are bright, creative, and diligent – this is the place.

We value people who can bring new perspectives to our company. Here are some traits that are important to us:

• Ability to solve problems head on (and hands-on) and in simple creative ways
• Bring unwavering passion to the team and the work you do
• Savvy researcher, continuous learner, and enthusiastic team player. We need you to feel like an owner, motivated to succeed and enthusiastic about helping others

Tassat’s Core Values

Our 8 core values represent how we function daily – they embody our culture and are the foundation of our character. They help guide us in decision-making, creating processes, hiring, and retaining the right people.

• Be an Owner
• Accept Only the Best
• Ask Why, Propose How
• Be Bold, Innovate
• Lift as You Climb
• Insatiable Curiosity
• Grow Fearlessly
• Be Human & Respectful

Tassat offers its employees competitive compensation and benefits packages. The base salary range offered for this role to NYC-based employees is $175,000 – 195,000, commensurate with relevant experience. Salary ranges may vary depending on a candidate’s state of residence.

Tassat Group Inc. is committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) organization. We believe our company and products are strengthened when they are developed and supported by individuals with diverse life experiences, whose understanding of social and cultural issues can help make our work and workforce more inclusive. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: All Tassat employees in the New York metropolitan area are required to be in the office in accordance with Tassat’s hybrid “Return-to-Office Policy”, which may be amended from time to time.