Investment Grade (IG) Macro Credit Senior Product Associate

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 customers
• Manages discovery efforts and market research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmap
• Owns, maintains, and develops a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition
• Builds the framework and tracks the product's key success metrics such as cost, feature and functionality, risk posture, and reliability
• Partners closely with engineering teams to ensure value, context and acceptance criteria are well defined; may aid with writing JIRAs and beta testing features
• Reviews the long-term product roadmap and ensures roadmap balances modernization, stability and new features, while regularly updating business partners with the roadmap progress and plans
• Applies a disciplined cost vs benefit vs capacity to all prioritization decisions in partnership with business
• Traverses all streams that the product intersects to understand and plan around cross dependencies due to horizontal engineering effort
• Communicates to business training for new features, status updates for in-progress items including risk/challenges and mitigation plans
• Conducts trader-facing activities on the trading floor

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills.

• Experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area
• Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analytics
• Proven ability to lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
• Proven influence and decision marking skills including ability to debate in a data driven manner with the courage to hold business partners to account
• Understanding of the underlying technology components to guide users towards workable features
• Agile experience: JIRA, sprint planning, retrospectives, grooming and backlog prioritization
• Ability to work in a high-pressure trading floor environment where expectations are significant in partnership with traders, quantitative analytics (quants), and engineers
• Demonstrated organizational skills and teamwork ethic; excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to think locally and execute globally
• Effective commercial awareness and ability to pro-actively suggest new product and enhancements to existing product to help tangible revenue results
• Analytical mind-set with a keen interest in statistical analysis, data mining & data visualization
• Ability 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 organization
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree level in Computer Science, Math, or engineering discipline or equivalent work experience
• Experience with technologies such as Python and React, Lucid, Tableau and Microsoft suites, including Teams
• Understanding of Financial markets and credit Investment Grade (IG) and Macro Credit trading