Job responsibilities:
- Support the Fixed Income Portfolio Management area product owner in user research, analysis and day to day management of the product.
- Conduct product discovery for selected features or initiatives and understand and document user needs in the form of user stories.
- Ensure representation of a wide range of users in the design of features or initiatives, often by facilitating user forums or workshops.
- Work with a team of developers and UX designers in refining features and initiatives, including the definition of clear acceptance criteria, wireframes and user validation.
- Support the product owner in prioritizing the backlog, clearly articulating the value of the initiatives she or he is working on.
- Represent the enhancements of the product to users and ensure adoption of new features and of the product overall.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- 5+ years of experience in the financial services industry, ideally with focus on fixed income markets.
- Strong interest in technology and how technology can drive efficient processes.
- Product-oriented mindset, with a focus on developing solutions that provide real user value.
- Familiarity with agile development methodologies
- Strong communicator that can listen to users and understand underlying issues and also articulate effectively proposed solutions to users and team members.
- Strong collaborator who can reconcile different user needs and priorities and work with a cross-functional team.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- Experience with frequently used tools in software product development such as Jira
- Multi lingual would be advantageous