Short Description:

If you are someone who promotes innovation and a go-getter for results, this is the role for you.

As a Product Owner Sr. Associate within the Investment Research Team, you will play a pivotal role in both the Quantitative research and Governance teams. Your responsibilities will include supporting investment analytics functions and promoting the future of product innovation as a key leader. You will be instrumental in delivering value to our customers and ensuring successful product launches. Our team works closely with the business, often functioning as an extension of it. You will be tasked with guiding the direction of the platform, managing a Product Cabinet, and prioritizing decisions for the platform. Your work will have a significant impact across the business, contributing to revenue enhancement, cost reduction, risk mitigation, and process improvement. You will also be responsible for expanding the reach for insights and addressing other priorities as defined by management.

 

Job Responsibilities:

Collaborate with stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.Evaluate data, information, ideas, and arguments when determining what should be built, and describe what is needed in clear and concise user stories.Act as the primary liaison between stakeholders and the development team, gathering requirements, providing updates, and managing expectations. Maintain a detailed record of decisions made during meetings. Participate in sprint planning meetings to help the team understand the product backlog items and their priorities. Review completed work to ensure it meets the acceptance criteria and provides value to the customer.Drive committed partnerships with your business stakeholders, developers, designers, QA, and other team members to ensure successful product delivery.

 Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

Graduate or Post-Graduate with a minimum of 6 years of experience in Banking, Financial Services, or Technology, with knowledge of different asset classes and investment products.Awareness of Portfolio risk across Suitability and Investments for multi-asset portfolios.Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role, demonstrable experience in agile product practices throughout the product lifecycle.Familiarity with the Product Ownership model and Agile Development, including project planning, Jira story writing, requirements management (elicitation, documentation, prioritization, etc.), process design, procedure authoring, capacity sizing, etc.High data literacy, including data collection, synthesis, and translation of results into concrete, actionable solutions.Organized and effective execution – work independently, set and manage expectations, and proactively manage efforts across multiple teams with effective communication. 

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification preferred.Ability to code in pythonKnowledge on Alternative products including Hedge Funds, Private Investments, Mutual Funds and ETFs is preferable