Kurtosys Systems Inc.
ABOUT US:
Kurtosys is a financial technology company that provides asset and wealth managers with a data and content publication platform enabling the construction and distribution of critical sales, marketing, and client reporting materials. Founded in 2002, Kurtosys operates across four global offices. Underpinned by global ISO-27001 certification in information security management, the Kurtosys team has a deep understanding of working at scale with data, information design, industry regulations and compliance issues . We work with some of the world's largest financial brands, including banks, wealth managers, mutual fund providers, and alternative investments.
PURPOSE:
The Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Kurtosys Systems is a pivotal leadership role responsible for shaping and executing the company's product strategy. As a key member of the executive team, the CPO will play a crucial role in driving innovation, ensuring market competitiveness, and delivering cutting-edge solutions that align with Kurtosys' business objectives.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
Join Kurtosys Systems at an exciting phase of growth and transformation. As a leading provider of digital experience, data management and reporting solutions for the financial industry, Kurtosys is poised to expand its product portfolio and enhance its market presence. The CPO will have a unique opportunity to lead a dynamic product team, contribute to the company's strategic vision, and drive the development of innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of financial clients globally.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Product Strategy: Develop and articulate the company's overall product strategy, aligning it with the organization's business goals and objectives. This includes identifying market opportunities, understanding customer needs, and defining the product roadmap.
Innovation: Drive innovation within the organization by staying informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and customer preferences. Foster a culture of creativity and continuous improvement within the product development team.
Product Development: Oversee the entire product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to ensure successful and timely product releases.
Portfolio Management: Manage the company's product portfolio, making strategic decisions about which products to develop, enhance, or retire. Prioritize projects based on market demand, customer feedback, and business priorities.
Customer Focus: Champion a customer-centric approach to product development. Regularly gather and analyze customer feedback to understand their needs and preferences, and use this information to guide product improvements.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with other departments, such as sales, marketing, and customer support, to ensure alignment between product strategies and overall business objectives. Foster effective communication and collaboration across different teams.
Budgeting and Resource Allocation: Develop and manage budgets for product development initiatives. Make informed decisions about resource allocation, balancing the need for innovation with financial constraints.
Market Research: Conduct market research to stay informed about competitors, market trends, and opportunities. Use this information to make data-driven decisions about product positioning, features, and pricing.
Risk Management: Identify potential risks and challenges related to product development and work to mitigate them. Anticipate market shifts, regulatory changes, or other factors that may impact the success of the company's products.
Leadership and Talent Development: Provide leadership to the product development team, fostering a positive and collaborative working environment. Develop and mentor team members, ensuring that the organization has the necessary talent to execute its product strategy.
Communication: Effectively communicate the product strategy, roadmap, and key milestones to internal stakeholders, external partners, and, when necessary, to customers. Ensure transparency and alignment across the organization.
Roadmaps: Oversee all aspects of roadmap planning and execution.
Feature Design: Oversee feature design and ensure the creation of effective solutions to client challenges. The successful candidate will show proficiency in product design.
Feature Delivery: We currently do a reasonably good job of delivering features to our teams and clients, but we could do better in the areas of training and documentation. Our long-term strategy is to allow delivery via partners and so impeccable documentation, training guides, and self-service tools will be imperative. Hence why training reports in here.
CORE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT :
It is expected that the CPO would assume reporting line responsibility for the team, currently comprised of the following individuals:
Senior Product Manager
Product Manager DXM
Product Manager Core
Senior Product Manager - Investor Reporting
Product Analyst - Investor Reporting
Senior Product Manager - Studio Apps (soon to return to sales role, should be replaced)
Product Analyst - Studio Apps
Head of Product Training
Product Trainer x 2
SOLUTIONS - CURRENT STATUS
Currently the firm provides three solutions:
Investment Websites: This comprises DXM and Studio digital apps from a product perspective. There are two key initiatives here that must be completed: DXM performance improvements and getting Studio's strategic roadmap items executed upon. For DXM performance, a caching strategy is designed the team just have to execute upon it. We need to reinvigorate our strategic roadmap and get back in to the state-of-the-art quadrant.
Investment Reporting: This comprises Documents, Studio for Office/InDesign, and Data / Studio. This product line has the most in terms of strategic roadmap to execute upon and is getting the most commercial traction.
Investor Portals: Via DXM and Studio, the platform provides a strong option for delivering institutional client reporting portals.
In all three cases, owning the vision across all three will be key. This will require deep collaboration with senior team members in engineering.
MARKETING:
There is currently a gap in how we market our products and how we create solutions from them. The CPO will be expected to bridge these gaps. In terms of marketing, a lot of our focus is on content marketing, particularly around the problems we solve, also providing a lot of the ideation and impetus.
The CPO will be expected to take on this role of driving content ideation with the head of marketing. Secondarily, the CPO will be expected to research and identify, with the help of the product managers, new problems in the industry where our technology can provide a solution.
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
Product Strategy and Vision
Competitive Analysis
Product Development and Lifecycle Management
Execution
Customer Feedback
Monetization Strategies
Team Management
Risk Management
Performance Measurement
SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Excellent communication (verbal, written and interpersonal) and presentation skills.
Self-motivated and highly driven to continuously learn, adapt and improve yourself and your team.
Familiarity with a requirements management system such as JIRA.
A strong ability to perform requirements analysis and documentation.
The ability to confidently push back on out-of-scope, unreasonable or irrelevant requirements and communicating / justifying your reasoning.
The ability to design a website solution using wire-framing tools, showcasing an understanding of web elements, components, and modules.
An understanding of the software development life cycle and Agile techniques.
A proven capacity to configure technical solutions (data visualization, data structuring, etc.).
Experience in design using tools such as InDesign and Figma.
A background in asset management or detailed knowledge of the industry.
An understanding of development tools and technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Experience in working with database technologies such as SQL Server or MySQL as well as RESTful APIs (XML/JSON).
BENEFITS:
ABOUT US:
Kurtosys is a financial technology company that provides asset and wealth managers with a data and content publication platform enabling the construction and distribution of critical sales, marketing, and client reporting materials. Founded in 2002, Kurtosys operates across four global offices. Underpinned by global ISO-27001 certification in information security management, the Kurtosys team has a deep understanding of working at scale with data, information design, industry regulations and compliance issues . We work with some of the world's largest financial brands, including banks, wealth managers, mutual fund providers, and alternative investments.
PURPOSE:
The Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Kurtosys Systems is a pivotal leadership role responsible for shaping and executing the company's product strategy. As a key member of the executive team, the CPO will play a crucial role in driving innovation, ensuring market competitiveness, and delivering cutting-edge solutions that align with Kurtosys' business objectives.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
Join Kurtosys Systems at an exciting phase of growth and transformation. As a leading provider of digital experience, data management and reporting solutions for the financial industry, Kurtosys is poised to expand its product portfolio and enhance its market presence. The CPO will have a unique opportunity to lead a dynamic product team, contribute to the company's strategic vision, and drive the development of innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of financial clients globally.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Product Strategy: Develop and articulate the company's overall product strategy, aligning it with the organization's business goals and objectives. This includes identifying market opportunities, understanding customer needs, and defining the product roadmap.
Innovation: Drive innovation within the organization by staying informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and customer preferences. Foster a culture of creativity and continuous improvement within the product development team.
Product Development: Oversee the entire product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, and sales, to ensure successful and timely product releases.
Portfolio Management: Manage the company's product portfolio, making strategic decisions about which products to develop, enhance, or retire. Prioritize projects based on market demand, customer feedback, and business priorities.
Customer Focus: Champion a customer-centric approach to product development. Regularly gather and analyze customer feedback to understand their needs and preferences, and use this information to guide product improvements.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with other departments, such as sales, marketing, and customer support, to ensure alignment between product strategies and overall business objectives. Foster effective communication and collaboration across different teams.
Budgeting and Resource Allocation: Develop and manage budgets for product development initiatives. Make informed decisions about resource allocation, balancing the need for innovation with financial constraints.
Market Research: Conduct market research to stay informed about competitors, market trends, and opportunities. Use this information to make data-driven decisions about product positioning, features, and pricing.
Risk Management: Identify potential risks and challenges related to product development and work to mitigate them. Anticipate market shifts, regulatory changes, or other factors that may impact the success of the company's products.
Leadership and Talent Development: Provide leadership to the product development team, fostering a positive and collaborative working environment. Develop and mentor team members, ensuring that the organization has the necessary talent to execute its product strategy.
Communication: Effectively communicate the product strategy, roadmap, and key milestones to internal stakeholders, external partners, and, when necessary, to customers. Ensure transparency and alignment across the organization.
Roadmaps: Oversee all aspects of roadmap planning and execution.
Feature Design: Oversee feature design and ensure the creation of effective solutions to client challenges. The successful candidate will show proficiency in product design.
Feature Delivery: We currently do a reasonably good job of delivering features to our teams and clients, but we could do better in the areas of training and documentation. Our long-term strategy is to allow delivery via partners and so impeccable documentation, training guides, and self-service tools will be imperative. Hence why training reports in here.
CORE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT :
It is expected that the CPO would assume reporting line responsibility for the team, currently comprised of the following individuals:
Senior Product Manager
Product Manager DXM
Product Manager Core
Senior Product Manager - Investor Reporting
Product Analyst - Investor Reporting
Senior Product Manager - Studio Apps (soon to return to sales role, should be replaced)
Product Analyst - Studio Apps
Head of Product Training
Product Trainer x 2
SOLUTIONS - CURRENT STATUS
Currently the firm provides three solutions:
Investment Websites: This comprises DXM and Studio digital apps from a product perspective. There are two key initiatives here that must be completed: DXM performance improvements and getting Studio's strategic roadmap items executed upon. For DXM performance, a caching strategy is designed the team just have to execute upon it. We need to reinvigorate our strategic roadmap and get back in to the state-of-the-art quadrant.
Investment Reporting: This comprises Documents, Studio for Office/InDesign, and Data / Studio. This product line has the most in terms of strategic roadmap to execute upon and is getting the most commercial traction.
Investor Portals: Via DXM and Studio, the platform provides a strong option for delivering institutional client reporting portals.
In all three cases, owning the vision across all three will be key. This will require deep collaboration with senior team members in engineering.
MARKETING:
There is currently a gap in how we market our products and how we create solutions from them. The CPO will be expected to bridge these gaps. In terms of marketing, a lot of our focus is on content marketing, particularly around the problems we solve, also providing a lot of the ideation and impetus.
The CPO will be expected to take on this role of driving content ideation with the head of marketing. Secondarily, the CPO will be expected to research and identify, with the help of the product managers, new problems in the industry where our technology can provide a solution.
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
Product Strategy and Vision
Competitive Analysis
Product Development and Lifecycle Management
Execution
Customer Feedback
Monetization Strategies
Team Management
Risk Management
Performance Measurement
SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Excellent communication (verbal, written and interpersonal) and presentation skills.
Self-motivated and highly driven to continuously learn, adapt and improve yourself and your team.
Familiarity with a requirements management system such as JIRA.
A strong ability to perform requirements analysis and documentation.
The ability to confidently push back on out-of-scope, unreasonable or irrelevant requirements and communicating / justifying your reasoning.
The ability to design a website solution using wire-framing tools, showcasing an understanding of web elements, components, and modules.
An understanding of the software development life cycle and Agile techniques.
A proven capacity to configure technical solutions (data visualization, data structuring, etc.).
Experience in design using tools such as InDesign and Figma.
A background in asset management or detailed knowledge of the industry.
An understanding of development tools and technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Experience in working with database technologies such as SQL Server or MySQL as well as RESTful APIs (XML/JSON).
BENEFITS:
- Relaxed Dress Code
- Open Culture
- Flexible Work Hours
- Group Risk Cover
- Employee Wellbeing Program
- Generous Paid Leave Policy
- Ongoing Staff Appreciation Events
- Access To Learning Platforms
- Working With Experts Across The Globe
- We are an international SaaS based fintech company.
- We work with up-to-date technology, promote from within wherever possible, and encourage our team members to use initiative, think out the box and share their ideas.
- We aim to transform how our customers - which includes the world's most prestigious financial services firms - drive engagement with their audiences.
- Our aim is to give our customers the ability to target, knowledge share and nurture their community of prospects and clients to develop long standing relationships.