Director, Product Management | London, UK

Intercontinental Exchange; London; On-site; GBP 200,000 +; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Product Director to lead innovative product development in reference data. This role involves driving revenue growth, enhancing existing data assets, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver powerful solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in financial services, a strong background in data analysis, and excellent communication skills to convey complex ideas. Join a dynamic team and make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving environment where creativity and efficiency are paramount.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in financial services with team leadership experience.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in SQL for data querying.

Responsibilities

• Lead product development and implementation across asset classes.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure alignment and successful product launches.

Skills

Team Leadership

Data Analysis

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Product Management

SQL

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Excel

SQL

APIs

Job description

Job Purpose

The Director, Reference Data Product Management joins a dynamic team exposed to and challenged with driving revenue growth, leading the development of innovative products, and enhancing existing data assets. We are looking for a talented and passionate Product Director to help drive forward product development with a background in reference data. You should have experience leading a team and have experience building, enhancing, or supporting products related to reference data.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team through the idea generation, technical development, implementation, and launch of innovative products across asset classes.
• Be the lead contributor towards the design and implementation of new business initiatives (e.g., new products).
• Define strategy to leverage external data for effective platform/product growth within the region.
• Take a data-driven approach to product enhancements, identifying opportunity areas and contributing to the Product roadmap, prioritizing work to deliver against key areas of focus.
• Partner with Strategic Delivery functions to develop and execute on product roadmaps.
• Participate in both formulating the business strategy as well as channeling it into a clearly defined direction and product strategy.
• Work with other product and development leaders to ensure alignment with their roadmaps and delivery.
• Serve a critical role in the successful integration and subsequent product buildout of strategic company acquisitions.
• Participate in cross-functional teams (e.g. Product, Business Analysis, Software Engineering) in the development of business requirements to meet customer needs.
• Collaborate with target market representatives, customers, and partners to create powerful and revenue-generating solutions for the marketplace.
• Expertise in business requirements writing. Requires extensive knowledge of all areas of the business including but not limited to content, development, product design, workflow, billing, and configuration.
• Must be well versed in industry and company-focused initiatives, and understand how that content could be utilized within reference data products.
• Understand the business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and help recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
• Liaise with the Stakeholders in managing, defining, prioritizing, planning, and executing the vision for our applications targeting our core Data Services customers.
• Liaise with development and QA teams to deliver new features and resolve issues.
• Identify and communicate project risks and issues.
• Ability to operate in a multi-tasking and deadline-driven team environment.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning by leveraging the learning & development curriculum to augment existing knowledge, skills, and experiences.
• Maximize efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm.

Knowledge and Experience

• 8+ years of experience in the financial services industry. Ideally, some of these were when you were leading a team.
• 3+ years of experience querying/retrieving data from structured databases (SQL/Oracle, Python).
• Excellent ability to communicate technical ideas and concepts to colleagues outside the domain.
• Ability to generate creative solutions to problems and challenge processes.
• Strong collaboration skills - ability to navigate cross-functional teams to deliver on shared objectives.
• Excellent communication and listening skills with an ability to develop a clear message for senior management and craft the story around it.
• Must have the ability to develop strong relationships with colleagues at all levels of the organization.
• Organized and structured with excellent attention to detail.
• Acute understanding of how data is stored and flows through systems and databases.
• Skilled in Excel to analyze data, identify trends, and come to conclusions.
• Understanding of how to identify and develop product enhancements.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills - solid hands-on experience of functional analysis, with extensive experience translating business requirements into functional, design, and test documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills - ability to work with the client/user community to translate their requirements, however expressed, into development materials and conversely present development materials to client/users in a comprehensible way.
• Must be able to supervise, organize, prioritize workload and work on numerous projects/tasks at one time.
• Ability to work with technical teams (QA and development) as well as sales and end users.
• A working knowledge, and ideally hands-on experience, of the development life cycle, covering basic design, testing cycles from unit to acceptance testing, implementation, and post-release bug/issue fixes.
• Working knowledge of SQL for data querying and analysis.
• Familiarity with a range of product interfaces (XML/JSON Files, APIs, Front-End Viewers).
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Bachelor's degree is a minimum.