Product Manager (Asset Backed Securities)

Valitana

$130K — $165K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5+ years of product management experience with SaaS, data, and analytics products.
  • Familiarity with the structured finance market, especially ABS products and deal structures.
  • Bachelor's degree in business, finance, engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience with standard finance tools like Intex is highly desirable.
  • Knowledge of agile development methodologies and execution of product plans.
  • Proven stakeholder management and effective communication skills.
  • Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

  • Define product strategy for ABS analytics, aligning with client needs and company goals.
  • Draft comprehensive business and functional specifications for product development.
  • Manage and prioritize the product backlog, writing and refining user stories.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to validate product direction and market intelligence.
  • Act as the main liaison between technology teams and clients throughout the product lifecycle.

Benefits

  • Employer-matched retirement plan.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and telemedicine coverage.
  • Paid time off for work-life balance.
  • Flexible remote working options on Thursdays and Fridays.
Full Job Description
Position Overview

Valitana is seeking a Product Manager to serve as the connective tissue between our institutional clients and development teams on Analytics our Structured Finance Workflow product. In this role you will be translating complex ABS market requirements into well-defined product specifications, driving feature delivery, and ensuring our platform continues to set the standard for innovation as we expand the platform to support Asset Based Securities.

Responsibilities
  • Define and own the product strategy for Valitana's ABS analytics solutions, establishing clear business requirements aligned to client needs and company growth objectives.
  • Author detailed business and functional specification documents for new features and product enhancements, ensuring our engineering team has clear, actionable requirements before development begins.
  • Create, prioritize, and manage the product backlog; write & refine user stories; and serve as the primary point of contact for the technology team and client-facing stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Client Success, and Client Services, Project, and Development teams to gather market intelligence, validate product direction, and ensure strategic initiatives are implemented with a high degree of organizational alignment and capability reuse across the portfolio.

Qualifications
  • 3-5+ years of experience in product management successfully managing SaaS, data, and analytics products.
  • Working knowledge of the structured finance market, with meaningful exposure to ABS products, deal structures, and the data/analytics tools used by institutional market participants.
  • Bachelor's degree in business, management, finance, engineering, or information systems.
  • Familiarity with industry-standard structured finance tools such as Intex or similar data and analytics platforms.
  • Direct experience with agile development methodologies, development and execution of product plans.
  • Strong stakeholder management and effective communication (written & oral) skills.
  • Detail oriented with strong organizational skills.
  • Resourceful with the ability to work independently as well as on a team.
  • Prior experience at a structured finance data vendor, software provider, or financial services consulting firm in a B2B environment is a strong plus.
  • Ability to write queries in SQL or similar languages is a plus.

What We Offer

The base salary range for this role is $130,000 to $165,000, commensurate with experience. Valitana offers a competitive total compensation package including base salary and an annual performance bonus. Employees receive a comprehensive benefits package including an employer-matched retirement plan; medical, dental, vision, and telemedicine coverage; and paid time off.

Employees in this role will work in the office Mondays through Wednesdays with the flexibility to work remotely Thursdays and Fridays.

Assessment and Automated Screening Tools

As part of this hiring process, you may be asked to complete a technical assessment administered through HackerRank, a third-party platform. By participating, advancing, or completing the assessment you are consenting to HackerRank possibly using automated features to evaluate or score the submitted work, and information about your submission is processed by that platform.

Categories of data processed: The code or written work you submit, assessment scores, completion time, and, if enabled, session activity data. Source of that data is the information you provide directly by completing the assessment.

How it is assessed: A Valitana employee reviews assessment results, and no hiring decision is made solely on the basis of an automated score. If you would like more information about how the assessment is evaluated contact Valitana Human Resources at [email protected].

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