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Role: Product Manager
Locations: New York, NY (Fully Onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months Contract
Note: Candidate needs to be in the office 5 Days every week. Local candidates only.
Job Description:
Business Unit: Technology
Technology works as a strategic partner with Client business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Client's sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modelling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses and to our own.
Department: IBD & GCM Technology (IBGCMT)
IBD & GCM Technology, a part of the wider IST Division, focuses on supporting the complex and evolving needs of two of the firm s most prestigious and market leading businesses, Investment Banking & Global Capital Markets. Our group partners closely, at all levels within the business, to provide a wide variety of technology solutions including the management of highly sensitive data, content creation, real time electronic trading and data modeling. Our group prides itself on the strength and diversity of our technologists that enable us to deliver front to back solutions to our business.
Role:
- A good candidate will have a track record of strong product and project management and experience working within an Agile framework.
Core Responsibilities:
- Work with business partners to identify opportunities and define goals for various initiatives
- Play a key role in articulating detailed requirements and acceptance criteria
- Coordinate across business, user experience and technology teams to drive delivery
- Prepare detailed specifications and supporting documents to guide development teams as needed, including assisting in designing and reviewing test cases
- Meet deadlines and communicate delays in a timely manner
- Collaborate with other teams within the organization on project work and to further best practices
Key Experience:
- 6+ years of experience in a product management, business analyst, product owner, or user experience role
- Experience in an Agile setting writing user stories, acceptance criteria, epics and organizing the backlog according to the overall roadmap
- Strong written, verbal and interpersonal skills, including the ability to interact effectively with business stakeholders to understand the business and gather requirements
- Highly detail-oriented with a strong ability to manage and execute simultaneous projects and tasks
- Self-motivated, with a high level of initiative
- Ability to work efficiently and independently
- Proficiency in MS Office and related applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
Skills Desired:
- A degree in computer science, business or related fields
- Experience at an investment bank or other leading financial services firms
- Comfort working with ambiguity, managing and resolving complex issues
- User Experience design background including designing intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for web, mobile, and other digital platforms.
- Proficiency in industry standard UX design tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Axure, Balsamic) and the ability to create interactive prototypes to demonstrate design functionality and gather user feedback.
- Experience in developing wireframes, prototypes (low-fidelity and high-fidelity), and user flows to visualize and test design concepts.
Visual Design & Information Architecture:
- Develop and maintain information architecture (site maps, navigation structures) to ensure content is organized and accessible.
- Apply established firm provided design systems and style guides to maintain consistency across platform & products.
- Experience with SQL