Product Manager Consultant Debt Platform Modernization** **Location:** Jersey City,

Job Title: Product Manager Consultant – Debt Platform Modernization
Location: Jersey City, NJ (Candidates must be within commuting distance)
Role Type: Consultant

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Product Manager Consultant to support a strategic Debt Platform Modernization Program. The ideal candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, technology teams, developers, QA engineers, and external partners to gather requirements, define business processes, manage product backlogs, and deliver effective technology solutions.
The candidate must have strong product management, requirements elicitation, stakeholder management, and Agile delivery experience. Familiarity with debt markets, debt issuance, securities settlement, and trade lifecycle processes is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead stakeholder workshops to gather business requirements and document current-state and future-state processes.

• Translate business objectives into product roadmaps, epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Manage and prioritize product backlogs, dependencies, release scope, and sprint readiness.

• Define business workflows, business rules, data requirements, exception handling, and integration requirements.

• Collaborate with developers, architects, QA engineers, Finance, Operations, and external partners throughout the product lifecycle.

• Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, defect triage, UAT, and product acceptance.

• Work with design teams to review workflow diagrams, wireframes, and prototypes using Figma.

• Ensure delivered solutions meet business requirements and support successful implementation and production readiness.

Required Skills

• Strong experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, or Product Management Consulting.

• Hands-on experience with requirements gathering, stakeholder workshops, and business process documentation.

• Expertise in Agile methodologies, backlog management, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Experience collaborating with engineering and QA teams throughout development, testing, and release cycles.

• Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.

• Familiarity with Figma, workflow diagrams, and process mapping tools.

• Knowledge of debt markets, debt issuance, securities settlement, or financial services operations is preferred.

Expected Deliverables

• Business requirements and process documentation.

• Epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Workflow diagrams, business rules, and process maps.

• Product backlog and prioritization artifacts.

• Requirements traceability, decision logs, and stakeholder presentations.

• Support for testing, UAT, and business acceptance.

Location Requirement: Candidates must be located within commuting distance of Jersey City, NJ.