Description:
We are looking for a talented Associate Product Owner to join our team in building and improving the core dealer-facing components of our Investment Research product. As an Associate Product Owner, you will partner with Product Owners/Managers to define product strategy and requirements and collaborate with stakeholders from other teams, departments, and geographies to drive initiatives forward. You will work closely with your Engineering counterparts and the Design Team to drive product and technical designs, identify technical and business dependencies, and move the product development process forward. You will be the product subject matter expert and collaborate with multiple teams across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and launch of product features with our team of developers, technologies, data scientists, and business owners, driving product development from iterative feature improvement to entirely new products
- Determine, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, and translate customer requirements into user stories that can be turned into features / products by the technology teams
- Define stories and prioritize the team backlog to streamline the execution of project priorities, while maintaining the vision and integrity of the product
- Create a release plan in partnership with stakeholders, engage with Scrum Team on delivery related activities, ensure stories are executed within the overall release plan, and provide clear visibility into work progress across leadership.
- Build relationships across product, content, and commercial management and key stakeholders to gain buy in and support for additional product and content initiatives
- Work closely with our Commercial partners to understand client needs and workflows, our competition, and be able to articulate the value proposition of our products
- Identify key opportunities for product improvements, develop short-term preventive or detective measures, and work with our teams to quantitatively evaluate the success and performance of new and existing features
- Integrate usability studies, research and market analysis into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction
- Keep abreast of the competitive landscape, industry trends, and digital innovation within the marketplace
What We Are Looking For
Required skills & expertise:
- 1-3 years of product management experience working on web products
- Strong knowledge of Agile development framework, with practical experience to support flexible application of principles
- Strong conceptual understanding of data, search technologies and taxonomies, web-based user interface design, and API technologies
- Working familiarity with road-mapping and issue tracking software applications, and Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visual Studio, and SQL
- A team player who is comfortable working with a globally distributed team across time zones, and a solid communicator, both with technology teams and with non-technical stakeholders
- Preferred: BS or experience in finance, mathematics, economics, statistics, computer science, information management or related field