Job Description
You will be joining the world’s leading data and insights provider for the alternative assets market. We empower the global financial community with critical information and leading analytics solutions to help them make faster and smarter investment decisions, and to make them with confidence.
A forward-thinking company, we lead our industry through innovation. We trust in the power of data, and we use it to increase transparency in alternatives. We believe that access to information leads to more investment in the ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities.
Job overview
A core part of Preqin’s growth plan is to continue to build out and develop our market leading data platform which serves the alternative assets market. Our Company Intelligence Business Unit serves our Investment Team customers and is an area with significant growth potential for the company. You’ll be joining at an exciting time when the strategy is still being formed, and there are numerous ways to make an impact for our business and our clients.
As VP, Product you will be responsible for leading product development within a Business Unit, focused on building product for a major customer group and will be a key driver of business growth. You will report into the Head of Product and work closely with your Business Unit head, playing a leading role in a cross-functional team building industry leading products for our customers.
You’ll lead a team of Product Managers, and work closely with colleagues in our engineering and design teams, global research teams, customer success, sales, and marketing teams to determine the strategic direction and operational delivery of the company’s products.
In this role you will:
- Understand our customers and understand what they care about. Find the most effective ways to help them.
- Set the product strategy for your area, work closely with the business lead and a cross-functional team to identify how to drive customer outcomes.
- Launch new products and features, test their performance in meeting our customers goals and iterate quickly and decisively.
- Work collaboratively with engineering, marketing, design and sales, getting everyone aligned around and executing against a common vision.
- Develop yourself and your Product team – share what you’ve learned, and work with the people around you to find ways to do things better.
You are a good fit if:
- You care about customers deeply – you’re obsessed with finding out what their problems are, and how we are going to solve them.
- You have a commercial mindset, and are able to apply a great understanding of customers, the market and our products to identifying where the biggest opportunities are.
- You’re a great executor, with a track record of getting product to customers quickly and iteratively.
- You’re evidence based, using data, customer feedback and market insight to help us to build industry leading products.
- You’re honest, self-aware and evidence based on how you and your team are doing, and continuously look for ways to improve.
- You act like an owner – you take responsibility for problems, and if you see something wrong, you make it better.
- Experience of working in alternatives, fintech, or financial services more broadly is a big plus, though not essential.
Company benefits:
- The opportunity to work within a well-regarded organization in a fast-growing sector.
- Develop your career in a high growth company with an international presence.
- Subsidized Private Medical Insurance via BUPA, after successful completion of 3 months should you wish to.
- Interest-free season ticket loans on completion of probation.
- A pension plan under auto-enrolment which currently requires a minimum employee contribution of 5% of annual salary. This is matched by an employer contribution of 4%. You can opt to contribute more should you wish to. After your 1-year service with the company the employer contribution will be enhanced to match your contribution up to a maximum of 10% of your pensionable earnings. This means that if you are contributing the minimum contribution of 5%, after your 1-year service, Preqin will automatically uplift the company contribution to 5% of annual salary.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Study support of up to £900 per annum for relevant business qualifications and enhanced support of up to $2,500 for CAIA.
- Excellent Offices in London close to Victoria station and the proximity to many shops and restaurants and London’s West End.
- Company-sponsored sports teams.
- Winter and summer office parties and a company-funded team social budget.
Our culture and values:
At Preqin, we’re aligned around common values – our shared beliefs that shape Preqin’s corporate culture:
Be customer-obsessed
We exist for our customers. We listen to them and understand their challenges. We design best-in-class data solutions for their success.
Act with integrity
We build trust through honesty and transparency. We’re committed to doing the right thing for our customers, our company, and each other.
Own your success
We’re a high-performance team. We challenge and champion each other in our pursuit of excellence. We never stop learning and strive to become experts in our fields.
Think forward
We lead the industry through innovation. We foster collaboration and creativity to solve our clients’ next challenge and give them a competitive advantage.
Make an impact
We drive positive change as individuals, and as a company. We’re passionate about creating a better tomorrow for our industry and our communities.
Equal opportunities:
Preqin is an equal opportunity employer, with diversity at the heart of our business. It is the policy of Preqin to ensure equal employment and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Preqin is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, so everyone has the opportunity to be successful. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please let the Preqin recruiter know at the start of the application process. Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process.