Product Associate - Brokerage

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan Personal Investing is seeking a Product Associate for Brokerage to drive end-to-end product development from discovery to launch, acting as voice of the customer and ensuring profitable, scalable offerings.

You will work with cross-functional squads across product, engineering, compliance, and operations to deliver high-quality investment products, with a focus on client experience and stability.

Qualifications

• Experience or equivalent expertise in product management within financial services or technology.
• Proven track record of wealth management product development end-to-end.
• Advanced knowledge of product lifecycle, design and analytics.
• Leading lifecycle activities from discovery to value management.
• Experience delivering large digital product initiatives with cross-team dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Develops a clear product strategy delivering value aligned with objectives.
• Manages discovery, market research and product roadmap integration.
• Maintains backlog to support strategic roadmap and value.
• Tracks metrics related to cost, features, risk and reliability.
• Collaborates across departments and with external partners.
• Defines an organised roadmap and backlog to maximise impact.
• Advances product development processes for efficiency and quality.
• Translates business and technical goals for engineering teams.
• Oversees development, testing and release management.
• Participates in agile ceremonies to drive transparency and learning.

Skills

Product management

Market research

Roadmap planning

Stakeholder communication

Agile ceremonies

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, finance or related

Tools

Data analytics tools

Job description

Product Associate - Brokerage

J.P. Morgan Personal Investing offers award-winning investments, products and digital wealth management services to over 275,000 investors in the UK. We built the business with innovation as a core part of our ethos to give consumers the confidence and clarity to make informed investment decisions and achieve their financial goals.

As a Product Associate for Brokerage at J.P. Morgan Personal Investing, 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.

Our Product team is at the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. We're looking for people who have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about building investment products. By their nature, our people are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. We work in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects – and depending on your strengths and interests, you'll have the opportunity to move between them.

Job responsibilities

• Develops and articulates a clear product strategy that delivers meaningful value to customers and aligns with the firm's broader objectives


• Manages discovery efforts and market research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmap


• Owns, maintains, and develops a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition


• Builds the framework and tracks the product's key success metrics such as cost, feature and functionality, risk posture, and reliability


• Build strong and collaborative relationships across different departments, including internal teams (e.g. Product and Engineering, Compliance, Operations and Investments) and with our external partners


• Define and manage a highly organised roadmap and supporting backlog to ensure your team is delivering products that will most positively impact customers and the business


• Be passionate about the Product Development process, always striving to improve how products are built to ensure teams operate to their maximum effectiveness and efficiency


• Balances business and technical objectives and translate these as clear priorities for the Engineering team


• Oversees product development, testing, and release management, ensuring high standards of quality and reliability.


• Actively participates in agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, planning meetings, and retrospectives, to drive transparency, accountability and continuous learning

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area within financial services or technology


• Proven track record of successfully building wealth management products, familiarity with brokerage and/or mutual funds end-to-end lifecycle


• 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


• Experience working in the delivery of large, complex digital product initiatives with cross-team dependencies


• Experience with software delivery best practices, working with technical product requirements and mapping of dependencies, design of minimum viable products, working with multi-country requirements


• Ability to explain technical issues in a clear way to the business and other stakeholders


• Ability to analyse and incorporate user needs, business needs, and technical constraints/opportunities into the product development process


• Be the glue among departments and create shared understanding by translating ideas and concepts into technical or layman’s terms

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, finance or highly qualitative degree


• Track record of delivering successful products based on first-principles design, working with data and customer feedback


• Demonstrated prior experience navigating and working in matrix and complex organizations, collaborating effectively across teams and functions

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