Job Description
You 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 high-quality products that resonate with clients.
As a Senior Product Associate in Investment Grade (IG) and Macro Credit Trading Technology, you are an integral part of the team that innovates new product offerings and leads the end-to-end 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 top-tier client experiences. With a strong commitment to scalability, resiliency, and stability, you collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products that exceed customer expectations.
Job responsibilities
Develops a product strategy and product vision that delivers value to customersManages discovery efforts and market research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmapOwns, maintains, and develops a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value propositionBuilds the framework and tracks the product's key success metrics such as cost, feature and functionality, risk posture, and reliabilityPartners closely with engineering teams to ensure value, context and acceptance criteria are well defined; may aid with writing JIRAs and beta testing featuresReviews the long-term product roadmap and ensures roadmap balances modernization, stability and new features, while regularly updating business partners with the roadmap progress and plansApplies a disciplined cost vs benefit vs capacity to all prioritization decisions in partnership with businessTraverses all streams that the product intersects to understand and plan around cross dependencies due to horizontal engineering effortCommunicates to business training for new features, status updates for in-progress items including risk/challenges and mitigation plansConducts trader-facing activities on the trading floor
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills.
Experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain areaAdvanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analyticsProven ability to lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value managementProven influence and decision marking skills including ability to debate in a data driven manner with the courage to hold business partners to accountUnderstanding of the underlying technology components to guide users towards workable featuresAgile experience: JIRA, sprint planning, retrospectives, grooming and backlog prioritizationAbility to work in a high-pressure trading floor environment where expectations are significant in partnership with traders, quantitative analytics (quants), and engineersDemonstrated organizational skills and teamwork ethic; excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to think locally and execute globallyEffective commercial awareness and ability to pro-actively suggest new product and enhancements to existing product to help tangible revenue resultsAnalytical mind-set with a keen interest in statistical analysis, data mining & data visualizationAbility 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 organizationBachelor’s or master’s degree level in Computer Science, Math, or engineering discipline or equivalent work experienceExperience with technologies such as Python and React, Lucid, Tableau and Microsoft suites, including TeamsUnderstanding of Financial markets and credit Investment Grade (IG) and Macro Credit trading