Manager, IT Product Management - 1611459

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Boston, MA
Posted on: December 2, 2016

Job Description:

Duties: Serve as a member of a team responsible for piloting new businesses

and capabilities in the financial services industry. Research digital

currency and blockchain technologies to build product concepts in the

bitcoin/blockchain space.

Primary Responsibilities:

· Participate in the entire product line lifecycle of blockchain

based products from strategic planning to tactical activities.

· Specify market requirements for current and future products in the

cryptocurrency industry by conducting market research.

· Develop product proposals with clear functionality, customer value,

time to market, and development requirements.

· Analyze potential partner relationships for products.

· Analyze consumer trends and customer feedback to add new product

ideas to the pipeline.

· Participate in planning, design, development, testing, deployment,

releases, and programs/projects.

· Partner with the research organization to drive the Research and

Development agenda forward.

· Develop and report on product measurement and metrics.

· Work closely with designers, project managers, and developers on an

integrated product team.

· Serve as the internal and external evangelist for product offerings.

· Engage with the user community to define project and articulate

business information to the group.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in

Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems,

Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and three (3) years of

experience in the job offered or three (3) years of experience designing

and project managing information technology solutions and implementations

within a financial services operations and product development environment;

or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in

Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems,

Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and one (1) year of

experience in the job offered or one (1) year of experience designing and

project managing information technology solutions and implementations

within a financial services operations and product development environment.

Candidate must also possess: Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) designing the

organizational structures and tools for Innovation Management to identify

and design new financial products and services and continuous process

improvements using Design Thinking and Distributed Brainstorming

methodologies and crowdsourcing tools (Spigit); and evaluating

opportunities through primary and secondary research and analysis,

hackathons, and Lean Startup methodologies; DE analyzing and developing

technology solutions that utilize distributed databases, blockchains,

crypotgraphic proofs, and consensus algorithms -- including Bitcoin and

Ethereum cryptocurrencies -- within an asset management or digital payments

environment; DE evaluating emerging technologies and vendor solutions to

support designing system architectures, developing proof of concepts, and

project management according to Agile methodologies; DE in business/systems

analysis and project management including developing product proposals and

strategic plans based on market requirements under regulatory compliance

for financial products and using Agile and Kanban methodologies to

collaborate with cross-functional, globally distributed teams to deliver

software solutions; Position requires travel approximately 25% of the time.

To apply, visit http://jobs.fidelity.com and search for Job Number 1611459.

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