DescriptionYou enjoy shaping the future of product innovation as a core leader driving value for customers guiding successful launches and exceeding expectations. Join our dynamic team and make a meaningful impact by delivering highquality products that resonate with clients.
As a Senior Product Associate focused on High Touch Credit Bond Trading you are an integral part of the team that innovates new product offerings and leads the endtoend product life cycle. As a core leader you are responsible for acting as the voice of the customer and developing profitable products that provide customer value. Utilizing your deep understanding of how to get a product off the ground you guide the successful launch of products gather crucial feedback and ensure toptier client experiences. With a strong commitment to scalability resiliency and stability you collaborate closely with crossfunctional teams to deliver highquality products that exceed customer expectations.
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 products 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 longterm 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 inprogress items including risk/challenges and mitigation plans
- Conducts traderfacing 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 highpressure 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 proactively suggest new product and enhancements to existing product to help tangible revenue results
- Analytical mindset with a keen interest in statistical analysis data mining & data visualization
- Ability to work autonomously and selfdirected.
Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills
- Demonstrated prior experience working in a highly matrixed complex organization
- Bachelors or masters 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
Required Experience:
Senior IC