Associate Technical Product Manager

Smartleaf is seeking an Associate Technical Product Manager to join its application team. The role focuses on translating complex portfolio events and domain logic into clear product experiences, collaborating with development teams, managing the backlog, documenting products, and analyzing outcomes for financial advisors.

What you'll do:

• Explain issues, potential solutions and tradeoffs in ways that make sense to a variety of stakeholders
• Write up bug reports and feature requests that expose the underlying user needs
• Work with the development team to design a system that will help our users get things done and hold up under real world conditions
• Write product documentation that helps users get up and running quickly
• Organize the backlog in a way that facilitates prioritization
• Work with development teams to assure smooth delivery and proactively expose risks
• Track and analyze product outcomes

What they're looking for:

• Have a natural ability to think and reason about complex systems
• Are able to dive into an unfamiliar domain and quickly build up working knowledge of how multiple components interact
• Enjoy taking a cloud of complex problems and making them clear and straightforward
• Are a proactive and effective learner who habitually analyzes and improves your own process
• 1-3 years of experience building production applications OR a degree requiring strong quantitative skills (e.g. math, statistics, engineering, computer science)
• Excellent interpersonal skills working with different kinds of stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to reason about quantitative data and systems with complex domain logic
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Ability to think through multiple alternative solutions
• Demonstrated ability to pick up new skills as needed
• Candidates must have current and ongoing authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship
• Prior fintech experience is a plus but not necessary to thrive in this role