Asset Management, Product Director, Vice President

The Investment Platform team was created in 2019 and is tasked with driving the vision and roadmap for a common technology platform to support our investors in generating insights and translating them into client portfolios. The team engages a broad community of investors with the objective of building the systems that can enable them and their teams to deliver exceptional outcomes. In direct collaboration with a team of technologists and user experience designers, you will be part of a highly visible team that has direct impact on the execution of our product roadmap and vision.

Job responsibilities:

• Support the Fixed Income Portfolio Management area product owner in user research, analysis and day to day management of the product.
• Conduct product discovery for selected features or initiatives and understand and document user needs in the form of user stories.
• Ensure representation of a wide range of users in the design of features or initiatives, often by facilitating user forums or workshops.
• Work with a team of developers and UX designers in refining features and initiatives, including the definition of clear acceptance criteria, wireframes and user validation.
• Support the product owner in prioritizing the backlog, clearly articulating the value of the initiatives she or he is working on.
• Represent the enhancements of the product to users and ensure adoption of new features and of the product overall.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• 5+ years of experience in the financial services industry, ideally with focus on fixed income markets.
• Strong interest in technology and how technology can drive efficient processes.
• Product-oriented mindset, with a focus on developing solutions that provide real user value.
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies
• Strong communicator that can listen to users and understand underlying issues and also articulate effectively proposed solutions to users and team members.
• Strong collaborator who can reconcile different user needs and priorities and work with a cross-functional team.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Experience with frequently used tools in software product development such as Jira
• Multi lingual would be advantageous