Product Manager - 105137

Company: Geode Capital Management LLC
Location: Boston, MA
Posted on: March 22, 2023

Job Description:

Collaborates with software engineers to deliver products, using Gitlab, Jira, Productboard, and Confluence. Manages and supports products throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Contributes to the development of highly integrated systems to support internal business functions across the enterprise. Guides cross-functional teams in the successful creation of products to improve consumer experience and grow assets under management. Ensures products align and support enterprise strategies and goals. Gathers and prioritizes product and customer requirements. Proactively manages sprint-level risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies to ensure they are identified, coordinated, mitigated, or escalated.

Primary Responsibilities:

Defines product vision.

Ensures a shared understanding of customer problems and stakeholders visions.

Meets with stakeholders to analyze and capture expectations.

Anticipates client needs and sequences work accordingly.

Aligns cross-functional stakeholder expectations on product tradeoffs and prioritization efforts.

Structures and conducts all project ceremonies for technology teams.

Develops Product Requirements Documents (PRD).

Breaks down requirements, prioritizes backlogs, and creates user stories.

Develops and maintains product roadmaps and translates them to project management plans for new business requests, enhancements, bug fixes, and vendor changes.

Collaborates with design and implementation engineers and architects to review and refine fundamental design concepts, user needs, and constraints.

Provides product insights to the development team in execution of concepts.

Tracks project status, milestones, and deliverables.

Anticipates and removes impediments to ensure teams achieve objectives.

Runs beta and pilot programs, using early-stage products and samples.

Reports project progress to senior management.

Works with engineering and customer support teams to ensure business case and customer satisfaction goals are met.

Plans and facilitates production deployments.

Manages pre/post-production activities.

Mentors junior team members.

Requirements:

Bachelors degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Engineering Management, Information Technology, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a closely related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or five (5) years of experience facilitating the delivery of products in a financial services environment, by product or project managing technology and innovation processes.

Or, alternatively, Masters degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Engineering Management, Information Technology, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a closely related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or three (3) years of experience facilitating the delivery of products in a financial services environment, by product or project managing technology and innovation processes.

Candidate must also possess:

Demonstrated Expertise (DE) identifying customer issues and establishing strategic product goals; creating product roadmaps using product backlogs; prioritizing customer requests by applying prioritization frameworks (story mapping and cost/benefit analysis); monitoring collaboration between departments and disciplines; guiding project roadmap sessions to plan and schedule project timelines; coordinating input and deliverables required to meet targeted business objectives; removing single points of failures, and maintaining sustainable velocity; and determining innovative solutions and best practices to remove impediments;

DE delivering products for index portfolio management, trading, operations, compliance, performance, and business development in a financial services environment; developing, enforcing, and following communication procedures, guidelines, and policies; supporting projects and business risk management (process mapping and improvements); and facilitating incremental planning to align development with business goals, visions, roadmaps, and backlogs, using Productboard, GitLab, and JIRA;

DE managing and coordinating Agile ceremonies and practices -- backlog maintenance, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, user demos, and retrospectives -- to establish formal release plans for cross functional, distributed off and on-shore development teams and vendors; identifying and setting-up dashboards to track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); and capturing team progress through process metrics and artifacts to ensure accurate data on KPIs, using Gitlab, JIRA (planning and tracking projects) and Agile development methodologies (sprint burndown and release burnup charts); and

DE managing the end-to-end integration of customer-facing applications using SQL, Java, C#, and R programming; coordinating all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) -- requirements gathering, design reviews, implementation, quality assurance, user testing, and business signoffs -- for projects according to Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and Agile methodologies (Jira and Gitlab); preparing release plans to deploy code using DevOps, GitLab version control, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methodologies; and coordinating to source data implemented during ETL process in Markit EDM.

To apply for this position, please send an email containing cover letter and resume to careers@geodecapital.com. Please reference PRODUCT MANAGER - 105137 in subject line.

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