Senior Product Manager - LP Portfolio Monitoring

Overview

Chronograph was founded to bring next-generation technology to private capital markets. Through our suite of cloud-based analytics and data management solutions, we help many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated venture capital, private equity, and credit funds understand their investment performance in unprecedented detail, with over $20 trillion of AUM monitored via our solution suite. 

At Chronograph, we get to go “behind the scenes” and work directly with investors who are driving some of the most impactful changes across high growth start-ups, global infrastructure and renewable energy, growth equity, and all other private capital strategies. The firm is backed by The Carlyle Group, Nasdaq Inc., and Summit Partners, and has seen continuous rapid growth since its founding in 2016.

The Opportunity

Bring your expertise to a highly collaborative, creative, and innovative team with a market-leading technology product suite. We are seeking an experienced Sr. Product Manager to take ownership of our Limited Partner (LP) product suite, and lead the formulation, execution, and communication of our LP product roadmap. 

The Sr. Product Manager, LP Portfolio Monitoring will report to the Head of Product and sit across a diverse array of stakeholders, including: Engineering, Design, Client Services, and Business Development. You will work closely with clients and prospects to understand their business needs, identify technology solutions, determine priority, and articulate our product strategy via roadmap presentations and other external touchpoints. Strong communication skills, including a deep understanding of private equity terminology and a demonstrated ability to communicate with sophisticated private market investors, is a must.

We value people who take pride in their work and show an aptitude for learning quickly. Our ideal candidate would have prior experience in a front office role at a Secondaries Investor or other LP, with subsequent success as a Product professional. Candidates should have a strong understanding of fund structures, measures of private equity returns, corporate finance, secondaries private equity, co-investments, and other expertise relating to private equity funds investing. Prior experience at an LP is strongly preferred, but we will also consider Product Managers with extensive experience serving LPs at a fintech vendor. 

As the Sr. Product Manager of our LP Product, you will:

• Drive key product decisions and take ownership of the LP product strategy and execution
• Develop a deep understanding of client use cases and design creative solutions to enhance how LPs monitor performance, report on, and analyze their private capital portfolios
• Develop and maintain a detailed product roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on business needs, technical feasibility and, resource availability
• Plan and manage agile sprints, ensuring clear objectives, timely progress and coordinating cross-functional delivery
• Work closely with a best-in-class Engineering team to deliver high-quality product features in a timely and efficient manner
• Build excitement in the market for our product vision via regular client engagement and roadmap presentations

You will be successful in this role if you have:

• Five (5) or more years of professional product management or comparable technology experience serving the LP space
• Detailed knowledge of the LP and secondary private markets, preferably through prior experience as a front or middle office professional at an LP
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with deep experience articulating roadmap strategy and drafting product specs 
• An ability to tailor your messaging to engage with various stakeholders, and to distill key business needs from end user feedback
• An ability to efficiently prioritize, triage, and synthesize multiple perspectives
• An understanding of what it takes to ship high-quality SaaS products and features at scale
• Positive attitude, sense of humor, and creativity

Nice to haves:

• Familiarity with Scrum methodology and/or other common product development processes
• Technical aptitude, including previous experience writing technical documents or coding

If you don’t tick every box above, we’d still encourage you to apply. We’re building a diverse team whose skills balance and complement one another.

Why join Chronograph?

We’re a team that values open communication, creativity, embracing cutting edge technology, a zero-defect mentality, and having fun along the way. We want you to be happy for the long-term.

We offer:

• Competitive salary 
• Equity participation 
• 401k
• Unlimited and flexible vacation
• Generous health benefits
• Flexible work arrangements (including remote / in person / hybrid)
• Team week events in HQ (Brooklyn, NY) three times annually for all employees
• Fully-paid parental leave
• ...and more!  

Chronograph is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organization and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you’re a passionate team player who wants to have an outsized impact on a diverse and dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you!