Technical Product Manager (Machine Learning)

Do you want to take part in shaping the future of work, services and entire fields of business with AI? We are looking for a Machine learning focused Technical Product Manager to join our customer Accountor Finago's product development.

As a Technical Product Manager you will take a key position in Finago's mission to renew industry standard accounting and financial management practices through the use of data and AI. You will work as a Technical Product owner for our team of data and ML development professionals. You will align your team’s work to our ML related product development and innovation projects and work as a gatekeeper for other requests for analytics and machine learning development in the product development context. You will also be working closely with project management, design and product management to make sure our Data and Machine learning expertise is used in the most valuable way.

To succeed in this role, you have a good knowledge of agile software development processes and knowledge or a very high interest towards ML development and data engineering. Customer focused attitude and good cross-functional communication skills are also essential.

Responsibilities:

• Transfer the business needs, vision and plans into actionable tasks and understanding for Data Scientists and Data Engineers.
• Managing ML teams backlog 
• Taking part in planning our Data and ML related development projects.
• Internal release communication, demos and instructions.
• Communicating and aligning teams work with internal stakeholders and other teams.
• Taking part in customer centric ML development activities, such as user testing, interviewing and validation through MVP/piloting.

Requirements:

• Experience in working in agile product development environment as a product manager, product owner, business analyst or similar role
• Good understanding of Scrum and Product owner role
• Ability to transfer business needs into technical terms and tasks, and vice versa
• Excellent communication and co-operation skills
• Good knowledge or high interest in learning: ML development process and techniques in a commercial SW development setting

Skills you would benefit from:

• SW development background as a SW developer/architect or DevOPS engineer or as a Data Engineer or Data Scientist
• Experience from machine learning development projects, tools and techniques
• Project management skills
• Team lead skills
• Experience in defining and prioritizing user stories/feature requirements
• Accounting/Financial management/Fintech domain knowledge
  

Some of our key technologies:

• Java 14
• Vaadin front-end framework
• React for mobile development
• MySQL
• Azure
• Machine learning
• Kafka
• Jenkins
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Used development framework is currently Scrum and we believe in agile processes and continuous improvement. We subscribe to a DevOps mindset, and work hard to streamline our Continuous Integration pipeline to make everyday development and maintenance as smooth and fast as possible. The tools we use to facilitate our agile development process include Slack, Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket.

Why join Accountor Finago

• You won’t be alone: having a team of SW development professionals around you for ideas and feedback.
• We have great people here: a truly international group of professionals making top-quality software together.
• Relaxed and trusting atmosphere, both at the office as well as working remotely.
• Challenging and rewarding tasks.

Take advantage of this full-time working opportunity and join our team to make a difference!

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and a bonus program
• Transparency regarding salary ranges among various roles
• Your manager as your own personal coach to support you, your well-being and your career - with time dedicated regularly to you
• Yearly budget for professional development
• Extensive occupational health services
• Lunch and recreational benefits

More information

If this role sparked your interest and you feel you have the required skills and experience please don’t hesitate to apply with your CV & cover letter. Apply as soon as possible as we begin interviewing suitable candidates already during the application period. 

For further information you can contact Poolia's Recruitment Consultants Sanna Majava ([email protected], 020 7290 838). Please note that all applications are handled by Poolia. 

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Accountor Finago

Our aim is to be the best employer in our industry. We believe that motivated and happy people are the main ingredient in our success story. Our working culture is inspiring, friendly and welcoming. We are also working continuously on providing the best and most modern management model, where the employees are empowered, coached and cared for.

We have built ourselves an environment that supports wellbeing at work, professional development and work-life balance. We offer for example flexible working hours, remote work, extensive healthcare and benefits of sport and recreation. Additionally, we hold numerous events every year, including sports, culture and other bigger or smaller occasions for celebration. A fast-growing company with international endeavors provides good opportunities for professional learning and career development. Our office in Keilaniemi, Espoo, is a very pleasant environment to spend your days working.

You can read more about our supportive, trusting and friendly atmosphere here on our social media pages or behind #accountorteam.

Accountor Finago (www.finago.com) is the manufacturer of the leading financial management software products in Finland and a part of Accountor Group’s SME software business. The software products are used by over 2,500 accounting offices and we serve over 120,000 companies in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

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