Area Product Owner – Vice President (MAPS)

Join our Multi-Asset Portfolio Solutions team as an Area Product Owner, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of product innovation. Drive value for customers, guide successful launches, and exceed expectations as a core leader. Collaborate directly with the business to enhance revenue, reduce costs, mitigate risks, and improve processes.

As an Area Product Owner in the  Multi-Asset Portfolio Solutions team, you will be an integral part of the Multi-Asset Portfolio Solutions team, supporting Fund and Portfolio Management Toolkit function through shaping the future of product innovation as a core leader. You are responsible for driving the direction of the platform, maintaining a Product Cabinet, and prioritizing decisions made for the platform. The Product work has substantial impact across the business/firm and is geared towards revenue enhancement, cost reduction, risk mitigation, process improvement, increasing reach for insights, or other priorities as defined by management.

Job Responsibilities:

• Own the product’s vision and execute your strategy to realize it, while rigorously applying product best practices to stay abreast of the latest market and technology opportunities. 
• Complement a strong product intuition with data-informed evidence to actively manage the product backlog in an agile development environment. Critically evaluate data, information, ideas, and arguments when determining what should be built, and describe what is needed with well-written stories.
• Assist in the end-to-end development of Fund Management Toolkit and facilitating its integration with Portfolio Manager Toolkit.
• Develop and validate the methodologies for post trade data analysis and enhance the with appropriate data load.
• Facilitate the new fund launch in line with strategic objectives, while enhancing the intra system component integration viz. Exposures, PTS, Capacity, SAA etc.
• Incorporate existing tactical tools utilized by PMs on organizational platforms to develop long term strategic solutions.
• Drive data quality testing and improvement efforts across the Due Diligence platform. Distill insights from data across diverse users, business, and industry sources. 
• Set motivating objectives for the business and your team with well-designed OKRs that measure success by the business outcomes your product achieves.
• Drive committed partnerships with your business stakeholders, Engineering, Design, and Product peers.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Graduate / post-graduate, with a minimum of 10+ years of experience in Banking / Financial Services of which at least 5 years are as a hands-on product manager with demonstrable experience in agile product practices throughout the product lifecycle. 
• Possesses a strong background in econometrics and analytics, with expertise in managing and analyzing complex data sets. Experience in statistical analysis and testing toolsets
• Familiarity with Product ownership model including project planning, Jira story writing, resource management, requirements management (elicitation, documentation, prioritization, etc.), process mapping, process design, procedure authoring, org design, 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, model work ethic, proactively manage efforts across multiple teams, rigorously communicate. 
• Excellent documentation, analytical, and reasoning skills (e.g., adheres to best practices in meeting management, regularly completes tasks and conducts business with minimal supervision).
• Applies innovation and design thinking techniques to continually challenge and improve the efficiency, scale, and resilience of our platform.
• Ability to thrive and drive change in fast paced, complex agenda.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Familiarity with at least one programming language (i.e., Python or Java).
• Proficiency in MySQL or GraphQL is preferred.
• Subject matter expert within Multi-Asset Portfolio Solutions or Portfolio Management Toolkit.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification preferred.