The Role
As a Digital Squad Leader in Stock Plan Services (SPS), you blend Stock Plan expertise with a passion for delivering digital experiences.
Acting as the Product Owner, you are the end-to-end gatekeeper of the squad mission, strategy, and tactical execution associated with delivering on strategic priorities. In an Agile structure, you will partner with other Fidelity leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions, roadmaps and resource requirements, set and refine the mission, and bring together a team of chapter members to complete specific features and ensure respective products or services are available, stable, performant, and supported.
You will ensure alignment on the “what” and “when” work is to be performed through ongoing planning and prioritization of a product backlog. You will enable squad members to work iteratively, innovate through testing and experimentation, and learn from failures while celebrating success! You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role.
Defining, refining, and communicating your team's mission to squad members and business partners to empower and rally support
Anticipating, discovering, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as the voice of the clients and guide execution of the squad
Measuring performance through established critical metrics and deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results
Inspecting and evaluating progress, and removing impediments for your squad
Defining, presenting, and evaluating results against agreed acceptance criteria
Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
5+ years of related product management experience, systems development, product development, and/or project/product management
Bachelor’s degree preferred
Financial services experience preferred
Experience with Equity Compensation preferred but not required
Agile experience preferred
You take a data-driven approach to understanding client needs, you translate strategic goals into action, and prioritize to maximize value delivered
You have a continuous improvement attitude
You are energized by working collaboratively to deliver agreed business outcomes, drawing on the expertise of colleagues to inform the approach and remove impediments to making progress
You are capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building high-performing teams
You are intellectually curious and model a culture of learning and coaching
The Team
Stock Plan Services (SPS) provides companies with outstanding administration for their equity compensation programs, including stock option, restricted stock, employee stock purchase, stock appreciate and performance plans. SPS Product Development supports the business and technology work streams that deliver against approved initiatives including new products for emerging markets and improvements to existing products.
You will work in partnership with the Product Area Leader, team members, and chapter leaders within the Plan Sponsor and Associate Experience Product Area. By role modeling and promoting agile and Fidelity leadership principles, you will promote and sustain an innovative agile culture. You will act as a SPS advocate ensuring we are building intuitive, multiproduct focused experiences for our Plan Sponsors.
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