Responsibilities:

• FSI Market Leadership: Be the go-to expert on the evolving data needs of banks, insurers, hedge funds, capital investment firms, and high-speed trading environments.
• Product Strategy: Shape the product roadmap for the FSI vertical by integrating regulatory requirements, technology trends (data mesh, real-time analytics, ML/AI), and customer feedback.
• Technology Alignment: Position our customer`s query engine in the broader data ecosystem across modern architectures such as data lakehouse, cloud-native analytics, and on-prem as well as hybrid data stacks.
• Customer Engagement: Collaborate deeply with C-level executives, CTOs, and data leaders at FSI customers to co-develop impactful solutions and validate product direction.
• Sales Enablement: Equip GTM teams with compelling messaging, playbooks, and training to drive revenue and adoption in target accounts.
• Competitive Positioning: Lead deep market and competitor analyses to inform pricing, packaging, and positioning strategies for FSI use cases.
• Go2Market: Be the owner for the go2market motion and orchestrate a cross-functional team to achieve business goals.
• Industry Evangelism: Represent our customer at FSI events, industry panels, and analyst briefings as a thought leader on modern financial data platforms.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as a key liaison between engineering, marketing, sales, and customer success to ensure cohesive execution.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
• Native German speaker.
• 5+ years in product, solution, or data strategy roles in FSI, with direct experience in banks, insurance, hedge funds, capital markets, or trading platforms.
• 5+ years in B2B product management or solution leadership, with proven GTM collaboration.
• Demonstrable success developing and executing solutions for data warehousing, advanced analytics, and/or high-performance analytical workloads.
• Familiarity with lakehouse architecture, analytical query engines, data warehousing, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), and AI/ML integration.
• Strong grasp of FSI-specific architecture, data governance, compliance frameworks (e.g., BaFin, GDPR), and security requirements.
• Outstanding communicator and confident public speaker
• Strong stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences
• Analytical mindset with ability to balance product vision and pragmatic execution

Preferred Experience:

• Prior experience high-performance analytical query engines
• Knowledge of trade surveillance, portfolio risk modeling, actuarial analysis, or similar FSI analytics use cases
• Experience in highly regulated environments within DACH.

Travel & Location:

• Willingness to travel across EMEA for customer engagements, internal meetings, and industry events.
• Flexible remote working, with preference for candidates located in Germany, Spain, or the UK. Employment in other EMEA countries will be through an Employer of Record.