Asset Management - Investment Platform - AI Product Owner - Vice President

JPMorganChase; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in London is seeking an AI Product Manager - Vice President. This role requires strategic thinking to integrate AI across Asset Management processes, guiding product development while managing multiple stakeholder interests. Ideal candidates will showcase a strong product management background, experience in collaborative environments, and a knack for data-centric applications. Opportunities include working with advanced AI strategies and improving development processes.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in delivering successful products.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience with data scientists and engineers.
• Proficiency in modern development practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for AI capability development.
• Manage multiple stakeholders' needs and expectations.
• Create and maintain a development roadmap.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Data science collaboration

Agile development practices

Systems design for data-centric applications

Cloud technologies (AWS)

Job description

Overview

Description

At a time of major change in the AI landscape, this is an incredible opportunity to design the approach used by J.P. Morgan Asset Management to implement AI across the organization.

Job summary:

As an AI Product Manager - Vice President on the Asset Management Investment Platform Product team you will have the opportunity to work with key stakeholders across all Asset Management business areas to help integrate AI into their processes. This role requires you to be a strategic thinker with a strong understanding of product management and data science, who can work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, manage multiple stakeholders, and effectively prioritize a backlog with competing priorities to support the achievement of multi-year AI objectives.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams (e.g. technologists/engineers, product owners, data scientists/quants, business stakeholders) to ensure the successful development and implementation of an Asset Management AI capabilities
• Manage multiple stakeholders, ensuring their needs are addressed, expectations are managed, and inputs are incorporated into the development of AI capabilities
• Create and maintain a roadmap to incorporate longer-term needs into the development process and provide transparency to stakeholders on delivery timelines
• Engage with engineers to understand their technical requirements and ensure these requirements are incorporated into the backlog
• Maintain a governance structure to align the backlog with business priorities, ensuring that development supports the overall strategic goals of the business
• Communicate regularly with stakeholders regarding progress, ensuring they are kept informed of status and any issues or challenges that arise
• Partner with AI Strategists on the refinement of AM's AI strategy to meet business needs and an evolving AI landscape
• Continuously seek ways to improve the development process

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Proven track record in delivering successful product(s) in alignment with a broader strategy
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management abilities with success managing multiple stakeholders
• Experience working with data scientists/quants and engineers
• Proficiency in modern development practices (e.g., defined user stories and acceptance criteria for Agile development teams)
• Experience in systems design for data-centric applications (e.g., prioritized and defined requirements for a scalable data pipeline for real-time analytics)
• Knowledge of data architectures and cloud technologies (e.g., set product vision for implementing a data lake on AWS for centralized data storage)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Strong ability to problem-solve and think strategically, including the ability to identify root causes of issues and recommend solutions is preferred
• Entrepreneurial mindset; demonstrated ability to identify new opportunities for clients/stakeholders and/or process improvements and run with them
• Understanding of the modern AI landscape is preferred
• Understanding of the Asset Management industry is preferred
• Problem structuring and solving experience within a complex corporation is preferred
• Prior experience in a technical role is advantageous
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) and the ability to present findings to a non-technical audience, advocate for initiatives and secure stakeholder support is highly preferred
• CFA qualification preferred

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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