Job description
As a Product Owner in the Athena Platform Core team, you’ll partner with Athena Platform teams, line-of-business engineers, and Quantitative Research developers to define our product strategy and roadmap. You will ensure that the platform meets business needs across Markets and beyond through understanding our product capabilities and how businesses use them. Using your software engineering experience, you will prioritise technical features to help solve business problems in a dynamic and fast-changing environment.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with other Product Owners and Engineering and Quantitative Research teams to define and prioritize technical product features and enhancements for the Athena Platform Core products.
- Manage the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder needs.
- Lead the development and delivery of platform capabilities, to clearly defined Objectives and Key Results, using automated KPIs to measure success.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including other Product Managers, Delivery Leads, and developers, to ensure timely and efficient delivery of digital solutions.
- Balance due diligence with speed to market, and creativity with discipline, to produce efficient and thoughtful digital solutions for our clients.
- Engage with stakeholders to gather feedback and continuously improve product offerings.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
- Software engineering experience writing object-oriented code.
- Experience working in a financial markets company such as an investment bank.
- Conversant with securities and financial derivatives products in at least one of the following asset classes: credit, equities, rates, foreign exchange, commodities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Sound judgement, the ability to make decisions about what to prioritise and what to not prioritise.
- Experience as a Product Owner or a strong desire to move into this role.
- Hands-on approach and an ability to be self-sufficient in processing data.
- Self-driven with a curiosity to learn and improve.