Lead Digital Product Owner, Direct Investing

What is the opportunity?

In this role, you will manage the product roadmap of initiatives related to Direct Investing and help unlock the business value and client engagement for their development and implementation.

You will oversee the definition of scope, gather detailed requirements, manage prioritization, and ensure features and capabilities are built to specification. You will work closely with the stakeholders, digital product management team, design, and development teams to build a clear product roadmap and monitor feedback and evaluate value creation. You will work on a variety of short and long-term projects to address business needs and continually improve our offering and capabilities.

What will you do?

• Manage the product life cycle from conception through release and beyond by collaborating with developers, product management, operations, and other teams

• Work in an Agile environment and continuously review the business needs, define priorities, outline milestones and deliverables, and identify opportunities and risks

• Execute through Agile Processes (Sprint planning, Sprint Retro, Backlog refinement, Sprint Review), and ensuring Jira/Confluence are up to date

• Translate product roadmap into well-defined product requirements including features, designs, user stories, and acceptance test criteria

• Prioritize and maintain the product backlog, balancing the requirements and inputs of multiple stakeholders Work closely with the technical development manager to lead the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology
  Support the development of architectural and design principles and standards to improve performance, capacity, resiliency and scalability of your product(s) to ensure safety and soundness

• Support and assist impactful go-to-market plans, ensuring that team members, stakeholders, and executives have what they need to launch successful capabilities

• Analyze our data volume and trends over time to anticipate how the volume may impact the usability of our systems

What do you need to succeed?

Must have:

• 5+ years of investment product management experience or relevant finance domain-specific experience

• Executive presence and a thought leader able to influence and advocate for their views/ideas and resourceful problem solving to help deliver critical initiatives for our business and clients

• Curiosity for how systems work and interact with each other, and are passionate about getting those details correct through excessive focus and attention

• Perpetual learner trying to continually improve your understanding of business, technology, and user experience

• Bridge both the business and technical worlds, ensuring we are building the right products that combine vision, market/industry research, and client usage metrics

• Ability to partner with product management, executives and stakeholders to define the functional and technical implementation to solve business problems, including understanding high-level market data development concepts

• Strong story-telling acumen to create powerful, detailed insights that support data-driven decision making, and convert insights into tangible benefits to the business

• Strong team player, who can roll up their sleeves when required, and is able to lead and influence product conversations

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver world class digital experiences to our clients. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation package.

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.

• Opportunities to do challenging work.

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

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Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

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