Lead Product & Engagement Manager

Lab49 is seeking a senior Product & Engagement Leader to own the success of complex, highstakes financial services initiatives for finance clients. This role combines product strategy and leadership with full engagement ownership: including outcomes, financials, governance, and longterm client trust. 

In this role, you do not simply manage a roadmap or facilitate delivery. You wrap your arms around the entire engagement: defining and executing product strategy, leading crossfunctional teams, ensuring operational and financial rigor, and serving as the single accountable owner for client success. 

You will operate at the intersection of product excellence, delivery execution, and commercial stewardship, acting as a trusted partner to senior client stakeholders while protecting both client value and Lab49’s interests. 

• Define, own, and execute product strategy and roadmaps for complex initiatives, ensuring alignment with client business objectives and contractual commitments 

• Lead the full product lifecycle from discovery through delivery, balancing strategic vision with execution discipline 

• Translate complex financial services concepts, workflows, and data into clear product requirements and usercentered solutions in collaboration with UX and engineering teams 

• Apply datadriven decisionmaking and hypothesisled development to optimize product outcomes, delivery effectiveness, and client satisfaction 

• Act as the single accountable owner for engagement success across delivery, product outcomes, financials, and client satisfaction 

• Own and operate within the MSA, current SOW, and prior SOWs, ensuring scope clarity, expectation alignment, and value realization 

• Proactively identify risks, issues, and dependencies across product, delivery, resourcing, access, and finance and resolve them with clear mitigation plans 

• Ensure nothing blocks delivery momentum, invoicing accuracy, or executive decisionmaking 

• Lead crossfunctional, agile delivery teams while maintaining clear priorities, shared outcomes, and predictable execution 

• Establish and manage delivery cadence, operating rhythms, and governance forums  

• 7+ years of Product Management experience, including senior roles leading complex initiatives 

• 5+ years of experience in financial services, with strong familiarity with asset management workflows, personas, and domain constraints 

• Demonstrated success owning endtoend product delivery in complex, regulated environments 

• Proven experience operating in a clientfacing, consultative role, balancing delivery, strategy, and commercial considerations 

• Strong product instincts paired with operational and financial rigor 

• Ability to lead and influence senior stakeholders across organizations 

• Deep comfort translating between business strategy, financial concepts, and technical execution 

• Exceptional communication skills with executive presence under pressure 

• Structured thinker who can make highquality decisions with incomplete information 

• Asset management industry experience, including: 

• Investment vehicles and portfolio management processes 

• Institutional investment workflows