Product Management - Product Manager - Contingent

Job#: 3023619

Job Description:

Client:
Financial Services

Job Title:

Sr. Product Manager

Location:

Minneapolis, MN - 3 days/week on-site
Contract Length: 6 months
Pay Rate: $55-61/hr, negotiable based on experience

• 7+ years of Product Management experience (or equivalent through consulting, training, military experience, or education)
• Experience leading technical scrum teams (including overlap managing 2 scrum teams for 2–3 weeks)
• Experience with financial services marketing, promotional offers, and offer management
• Experience with data center migrations, microservices/data services/middleware management
• Skills in product management, JIRA/Confluence, and change management

• Ability to consult with senior leadership on innovative Product Management business solutions
• Experience developing long‑term, large‑scale product strategies requiring creativity and advanced analytical/inductive thinking
• Strong strategic stakeholder engagement skills

In this contingent resource assignment, the consultant will serve as an expert supporting highly complex business and technical needs across Product Management. Responsibilities include contributing to strategy development, guiding the resolution of unique and multifaceted challenges, and delivering long‑term, large‑scale solutions that require creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive reasoning. The consultant will provide expertise to senior leadership on innovative Product Management solutions and strategically engage with client personnel across multiple functional areas.

• Consult as a product expert to influence initiatives and resources for highly complex product and technical needs
• Lead and collaborate with technical scrum teams, including managing two scrum teams for a short overlapping period
• Evaluate and address complex challenges across multiple product domains, delivering long‑term, scalable solutions
• Provide guidance to senior leadership on innovative Product Management strategies
• Support initiatives in financial services marketing, promotional offer management, and offer strategies
• Contribute to efforts involving data center migrations, microservices/data service products, and middleware management
• Leverage tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and change management methodologies to support product lifecycle execution

Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.