Job responsibilities
- Refine and evolve business, operational, and control requirements to drive agile product development of the strategic System of Record for index data in alignment with wider business priorities
- Enable integration and adoption of product features and functions; manage a sustainable onboarding and support model for new prospect consumers
- Demonstrate progress and deliver on Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) associated with the product
- Progress and champion the business case and vision for the product
- Liaison between product technology & operations and business stakeholders to prioritize and refine the product roadmap
- Ensure that index data adheres to firm-wide and governance and ownership standards
- Partner with 3rd party vendors and internal 3rd party oversight & controls to deliver low-risk, high-value solutions to front and back office stakeholders
- Directly and indirectly manage a fast pace team where every day presents a new challenge!
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area
- Demonstrate a level of understanding of market reference data, preferably a background within index processing
- Solid practical understanding of the financial service businesses, products, and processes
- Ideal candidate is likely to have previous experience either from Asset Management, Fund accounting, Hedge Funds or market data vendors
- Strong communications skills both written and verbal
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong program and project management skills or product management experience
- Ability to break down complex problems and projects into manageable pieces
- Ability to get to the heart of the problem and make suggestions for resolution
- Highly skilled in MS PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Demonstrated prior experience working in a highly matrixed, complex organization
- Familiarity with data from Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley MSCI, and other equity, fixed income, and alternative index market data providers is preferred
- Strong personal and professional integrity, and strong work ethics
- Results orientated, willingness to commit to delivery and take charge
- Ability to manage relationships across all AWM functions
- Ability to develop cooperative and constructive working relationships across globally distributed teams
- Collaborative team player orientation towards work relationships, strong culture awareness