"Every project entails different types of stakeholders with different priorities and expectations. As the fintech product manager, you have to be able to manage these various personalities and bring them all into alignment. You also have to be able to clearly communicate your vision so you can get them all on board with it. At my last job, I had spent considerable time conducting customer and market research, identifying a market opportunity, and creating a vision for a new product. When I met with the various stakeholders, I discovered that although I had complete buy-in from upper-level management, sales, and marketing, the engineering team was hesitant because they saw some challenges in the development stage of the product. I realized that I had gone right into granular details with them without explaining the broad strategic objectives of the product first. After I took a step back and did this, they began to support the overall idea and were willing to work with me to tackle the technical challenges that they saw."