Product Manager - Data

IG Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible benefits package

Private medical cover

Life insurance

25 days holiday + birthday day off + 2

Job summary

IG Group in London seeks an experienced Product Manager - Data to shape and lead the data products that power trading insights and decision making. You’ll partner with Data Engineering teams in the UK, India and elsewhere to define roadmaps and backlogs and to deliver world-class data tools that unlock value from IG’s data assets.

You will balance delivery speed with robust, scalable platforms, articulating first-principles thinking and translating business needs into practical data products.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to define and execute a product vision, strategy and road-map.
• Understanding of data principles and working with data engineering teams.
• Experience with Agile projects at scale and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate a product vision for Data and a roadmap(s).
• Manage and prioritise product backlogs and epics with engineers and architects.
• Engage with stakeholders to align on priorities and progress.
• Collaborate with Data Science, Infrastructure and Engineering communities to deliver data outcomes.
• Establish cadence of ceremonies and ensure alignment with customers and stakeholders.
• Work with Architecture and Product Management to refine ways of working and strategy.

Skills

Product vision

Strategy

Roadmap

Data principles

Data engineering collaboration

Agile at scale

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Leadership

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Job Title

Product Manager - Data

Job Description

Product Manager - Data

About IG Group

IG Group is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.4m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof. We didn’t pivot to innovation; it’s how we’ve always operated. What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that’s rare in established businesses.

The bar is high – bring a curious and forward-thinking mindset and we’ll give you the platform to define what comes next.

Join us at IG – the future gets built here.

Your role in the team:

Your focus will be enabling IG to gain optimal value from the Data we create, hold and process. You’ll work with stakeholders at every level to help
shape a vision and strategy to help IG build world class tools and processes that enable us to leverage our data to create insights, make decisions and identify opportunities. You’ll drive the adoption of enabling data tools to bring the value in our data to everyone at IG.
To do this, you’ll work with our Data Engineering teams in India, the UK and elsewhere to shape our Roadmaps and Product Backlogs, prioritising the products and services we’ll build to realise our future vision.
You’ll understand the importance of balancing the development of capabilities, products and services whilst ensuring our teams have the space and time to make our platforms robust, performant and less limited by technical debt.
You’ll have evidence of working with Cloud Data platforms like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and be able to help create context and understanding with non-technical stakeholders and engineers alike. You’ll be able to hold a technical conversation at a level that demonstrates an understanding of first principles with engineers and technical leaders.
You’ll work with other Product Managers right across IG to organise and slice areas of focus, together prioritising, planning and iterating on your product areas to solve valuable problems.

Your role in the team’s success:

You’ll work alongside other areas of IG such as Data Science, AI and Infrastructure to collaborate and combine effort to build value.
You’ll be ready to compromise pragmatically and positively to help iteratively grow our processes at a time of change, helping us make progress in a challenging mix of dependencies, multiple projects and dynamic team resource profile.
You’ll be able to define and communicate clearly, the ‘why’ of your vision and have a laser focus on understanding the needs of your customers.
Data is a highly complex, technical area where many of the products and services we’ll build overlap and complement one another. Therefore you’ll be able to understand architectural concepts and collaborate with engineering colleagues to understand the solutions that are shaped.
You’ll also need to work closely with the Product team to achieve your product vision in a collaborative way, achieving not only your objectives but helping team members identify and create compelling cross cutting services so we grow as a whole.
With your steer, the Data area will evolve and change over time. Some of the solutions we define, or areas we’ll iterate on will begin as loosely defined objectives, that’ll you’ll shape to grow into a rich Data ecosystem

that helps IG grow at pace.

What you’ll do:

• Define & communicate a Product Vision for Data
• Define & communicate a Product Roadmap(s) for Data
• Manage & prioritise your Product Backlog(s)
• Manage & create Epics, Stories, Spikes etc (Product Backlog Items as defined by the team). Collaborate with engineers and architects to create & refine these.
• Engage & collaborate with Stakeholders to achieve Product Vision
• Engage & collaborate with Data Science and Engineering communities to collaborate, provide visibility of prioritisation and progress.
• Establish a cadence of ceremonies/meetings/workshops to drive progress with both the teams delivering your product vision, and your customers & stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Architecture to achieve your Vision for Data
• Collaborate with Product Management to achieve your Product Vision and define a wider Strategy.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architecture on improvements to ways of working and process.
• Collaborate with Project and Programme management where needed to drive and deliver data outcomes or where there are dependencies on doing so.
• Help drive Product Management culture, mindset & principles by advocating for improvement and sharing methods, principles, and practice.
• Share learned knowledge, practices, and methods to help the Product team grow.
• Help shape and define metrics we can use to measure progress both in terms of product / service impact and progress.
• Collaborate with Delivery Managers/Engineering Leads to plan iterations, prioritise work and allocate people in our teams to achieve your Product Vision
• Define and communicate to the team and stakeholders, the users/customers of your products & services to better align your vision with valuable unmet needs.
• Help Product and Platform leadership define and execute an iterative strategy that enables IG teams to build better products using common platform services.
• Engage with vendors and 3rd parties where needed to help bring to IG the best commercial partners to help achieve your Product Vision.

Who we’re looking for?

You’re curious about things like the client experience, the rapid developments in tech, and the complex world of fintech regulation. You’re also a
confident, creative thinker with a knack for innovating. We know that you know every problem has a solution. Here, you can try new ideas, and lead the way in creating inspiring experiences for our clients and everyone around you.
We don’t fit the corporate stereotype. If you want to work for a traditional, suit-and-tie corporate that just gives you a pay cheque at the end of the
month, we might not be for you. But, if you have that IG Group energy and you can stand behind what we believe in, let’s raise the bar together.

What you’ll need for this role

• Proven ability to define and execute a product vision, strategy and road-map
• Capability to understand commercial imperatives of how IG products work and the commercial models that underpin them
• Proven ability to go from strategic planning to delivery of both innovative initiatives and tactical activities that optimize business value
• Proven technical expertise, knowledge of data principles and experience with working with data engineering teams
• Excellence at identifying cross program and product dependencies
• Bring awareness of emerging data technologies and suppliers
• Experience working with Agile projects at scale, with several different streams and different stakeholders
• Ability to negotiate, inspire, support and influence both business and technical stakeholders
• Work alongside key stakeholders, including technology, commercial, marketing and operations
• Proven experience in positively Influencing suppliers

The Perks

It really is more than a job. We think like a start-up, but we deliver like a FTSE 100 — so the bar is high, and we won’t pretend otherwise. We work hybrid, which means three days in the office. We’ll recognise your talent and make sure that you can still have a life – at work, and outside of it. Networks, committees, awards, sports and social clubs, mentorships, volunteering opportunities, extra time off… the list goes on.

• Competitive salary
• Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)
• Private medical cover for you and your family
• Life insurance
• Contribution to gym memberships
• 25 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total)
• The option to buy or sell holiday days
• A comprehensive global and local onboarding process
• Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents

Number of openings

1