Credit Derivative High Touch Product Manager

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Product Manager in Credit Derivative Trading Technology, where you will shape the future of product innovation. This role is pivotal in driving value for customers by managing the product life cycle and ensuring successful launches. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products that exceed client expectations. Your expertise in product management and data analytics will enable you to lead discovery efforts, develop product strategies, and communicate effectively with stakeholders. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Expertise in product management and product development life cycle.
• Ability to lead product life cycle activities and make data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Develop product strategy and manage product backlog.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to define value and acceptance criteria.

Skills

Product Management

Data Analytics

Agile Methodologies

Communication Skills

Analytical Mindset

Organizational Skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Equivalent Work Experience

Tools

JIRA

Python

React

Tableau

Microsoft Teams

Job description

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Job Description

You enjoy shaping the future of product innovation as a core leader, driving value for customers, guiding successful launches, and exceeding expectations. Join our dynamic team and make a meaningful impact by delivering high-quality products that resonate with clients.

As a Product Manager in Credit Derivative Trading Technology, you are an integral part of the team that innovates new product offerings and leads the end-to-end product life cycle. You are responsible for acting as the voice of the customer and developing profitable products that provide customer value. Utilizing your deep understanding of how to get a product off the ground, you guide the successful launch of products, gather crucial feedback, and ensure top-tier client experiences. With a strong commitment to scalability, resiliency, and stability, you collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products that exceed customer expectations.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop a product strategy and product vision that delivers value to customers.
• Manage discovery efforts and market research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmap.
• Own, maintain, and develop a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition.
• Build the framework and track the product's key success metrics such as cost, feature and functionality, risk posture, and reliability.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to ensure value, context, and acceptance criteria are well defined; may aid with writing JIRAs and beta testing features.
• Review the long-term product roadmap and ensure it balances modernization, stability, and new features, while regularly updating business partners with the roadmap progress and plans.
• Apply a disciplined cost vs benefit vs capacity to all prioritization decisions in partnership with the business.
• Traverse all streams that the product intersects to understand and plan around cross dependencies due to horizontal engineering effort.
• Communicate to business training for new features, status updates for in-progress items including risk/challenges and mitigation plans.
• Conduct trader-facing activities on the trading floor.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Expertise in product management or a relevant domain area.
• Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analytics.
• Proven ability to lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management.
• Proven influence and decision-making skills including ability to debate in a data-driven manner with the courage to hold business partners to account.
• Understanding of the underlying technology components to guide users towards workable features.
• Agile experience: JIRA, sprint planning, retrospectives, grooming, and backlog prioritization.
• Ability to work in a high-pressure trading floor environment where expectations are significant in partnership with traders, quantitative analytics (quants), and engineers.
• Demonstrated organizational skills and teamwork ethic; excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to think locally and execute globally.
• Effective commercial awareness and ability to proactively suggest new product enhancements to help achieve tangible revenue results.
• Analytical mindset with a keen interest in statistical analysis, data mining & data visualization.
• Ability to work autonomously and self-directed.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Demonstrated prior experience working in a highly matrixed, complex organization.
• Bachelor's or master's degree level in Computer Science, Math, or engineering discipline or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with technologies such as Python and React, Lucid, Tableau and Microsoft suites, including Teams.
• Understanding of Financial markets and Credit Derivative trading.

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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services, and payments. Corporations, governments, and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk, and extends liquidity in markets around the world.