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Job description
Today, nearly every business in the world has to do bookkeeping and accounting in order to file taxes, understand financial health, and most importantly, make strategic business decisions. The process is universally manual, tedious, and error prone. At the same time, the process follows well-defined rules, abides by industry standardization, and has become increasingly data-rich. It’s a product-focused machine learning team’s dream.
Sage Artificial Intelligence Labs “SAIL” is a nimble team within Sage building the future of cloud accounting by leveraging artificial intelligence. The SAIL team builds capabilities across Sage’s product portfolio to help businesses automate and augment finance and operations workflows, to help businesses make better decisions through data-powered insights.
What you'll do
We are looking for a enthusiastic Graduate Product Manager to help to define and deliver the next generation of AI-powered financial management products. As a part of our cross-functional team, including data scientists and ML engineers, you will support product decisions, manage customer priorities, lead customer conversations, and launch new features. You will gain deep expertise in our products and use your knowledge to deliver customer value. Through your work, you will play an importantrole in shaping the future of AI-powered financial management products at a leading financial management software company.
Responsibilities
- Deeply understand the problems and needs of our customers
- Write detailed product briefs and requirements that clearly articulate the customer needs and prioritize the details to build a solution
- Review and prioritize customer feedback and transform it into product requirements
- Support feature / product development from conception to launch
- Effectively and proactively communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders
- Define and analyze metrics to understand feature adoption and guide development of existing and new features
- Develop product documentation, product presentations and other content assets to describe the work
- Ability to write detailed, technical product specs, and present to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Resilience to obstacles, and ability to solve problems independently.
Requirements
- B.S. or M.S. preferably in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree
- Knowledge of AI / ML or first-hand experience working with AI / ML-powered technology products
- An entrepreneurial / self-starter mindset who first and foremost knows how to get work done in a dynamic environment
- Deep analytical, prioritization, and problem solving skills
- Able to work within a cross-functional team to reach ambitious goals
- Clear and compelling in written and spoken communication; comfortable with public speaking
- Staying positive and able to remove blockers to get things done
- Comfortable working across time zones and different cultures
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle process and methodologies is a plus
You may be fit for this role if you
- Enjoy working in technical, engineering focused teams
- Enjoy working in high performing teams, which value learning, shared responsibility, trust and moving fast
- Believe that the best ideas win and that they can come from anyone regardless of position
- Are able to put ego aside and do whatever it takes to get the job done
- Are comfortable giving and receiving open and honest feedback with the goal of improving how you and your team work
What's it like to work here
You will have an opportunity to work in an environment where engineering is central to what we do. The products we build are breaking new ground, and we have a focus on providing the best environment to allow you to do what you do best - solve problems, collaborate with your team and push first class software. Our distributed team is spread across multiple continents, we promote an open diverse environment, encourage contributions to open-source software and invest heavily in our staff. Our team is talented, capable and inclusive. We know that great things can only be done with great teams and look forward to continue this direction.
Do you love where you work? WE do!
Entry requirements
A relevant business or computer science degree, or an alternative degree supported by a keen interest/demonstrated knowledge in STEM.
Our Graduate Recruitment process:
1. Apply online with CV
2. Complete screening
3. Complete video interview (You will receive a link to complete a video interview within 1 week of applying)
4. Attend assessment centre in March/April 2022.
Please note that this role commences on the 3rd October 2022.
If you require any additional support/special accommodation during your video interview or at Assessment Centre stage, please email anushka.seshadri@sage.com.
