Job responsibilities
- Develops a product strategy and product vision that delivers value to customers
- Manages discovery efforts and market research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmap
- Owns, maintains, and develops a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition
- Builds the framework and tracks the product's key success metrics such as cost, feature and functionality, risk posture, and reliability
- Partners closely with engineering teams to ensure value, context and acceptance criteria are well defined; may aid with writing JIRAs and beta testing features
- Reviews the long-term product roadmap and ensures roadmap balances modernization, stability and new features, while regularly updating business partners with the roadmap progress and plans
- Applies a disciplined cost vs benefit vs capacity to all prioritization decisions in partnership with business
- Traverses all streams that the product intersects to understand and plan around cross dependencies due to horizontal engineering effort
- Communicates to business training for new features, status updates for in-progress items including risk/challenges and mitigation plans
- Conducts trader-facing activities on the trading floor
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills.
- Experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area
- Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analytics
- Proven ability to lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
- Proven influence and decision marking skills including ability to debate in a data driven manner with the courage to hold business partners to account
- Understanding of the underlying technology components to guide users towards workable features
- Agile experience: JIRA, sprint planning, retrospectives, grooming and backlog prioritization
- Ability to work in a high-pressure trading floor environment where expectations are significant in partnership with traders, quantitative analytics (quants), and engineers
- Demonstrated organizational skills and teamwork ethic; excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to think locally and execute globally
- Effective commercial awareness and ability to pro-actively suggest new product and enhancements to existing product to help tangible revenue results
- Analytical mind-set with a keen interest in statistical analysis, data mining & data visualization
- Ability to work autonomously and self-directed; majority of the team will be London based
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Demonstrated prior experience working in a highly matrixed, complex organization
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree level in Computer Science, Math, or engineering discipline or equivalent work experience
- Experience with technologies such as Python and React, Lucid, Tableau and Microsoft suites, including Teams
- Understanding of Financial markets and credit Investment Grade (IG) and Macro Credit trading