Job Description
Job Purpose
ICE is seeking a Senior Product Manager to join our Reference Data Product Development team. You will be part of the Products team but will work closely with IT, Operations, and the Business. The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for productizing new Reference Data content, requiring excellent technical writing skills to create detailed technical requirements and product documentation.
Responsibilities
- Write comprehensive business requirements, with extensive knowledge of content, development, product design, workflow, billing, and configuration across all business areas.
- Deep understanding of reference data sourcing, storage, and output both internally and externally.
- Stay informed about industry and company initiatives, and identify how this content can be utilized within reference data products.
- Collaborate with the Sales team to understand client use cases, data utilization, and address potential roadblocks or gaps.
- Analyze business problems and opportunities, recommending solutions aligned with organizational goals.
- Work with Senior stakeholders, Business Development, and Product Management to translate vision into documents and wireframes.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to manage, define, prioritize, plan, and execute application visions for core Data Services customers.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for internal partners in the assigned product space.
- Propose improvements and new features for existing products and participate in designing and building new products.
- Define requirements for ingesting third-party data feeds into products.
- Present project ideas, business requirements, and product launch documents to the Product Committee.
- Support integration activities related to company acquisitions.
- Prepare product methodologies, training guides, release notes, and conduct user training.
- Collaborate with Technology and QA teams to deliver features and resolve issues, including UAT.
- Identify, communicate, and mitigate project risks and issues.
- Engage with market representatives, customers, and partners to develop compelling solutions.
- This role balances internal collaboration with cross-functional teams and externally focused efforts to secure $25 million in annual sales revenue.
Knowledge and Experience
- Extensive experience in data analysis, data mapping, and business analysis within the financial services industry.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and translation skills for business requirements into functional and test documentation.
- Excellent communication skills to liaise effectively with clients, users, and technical teams.
- Exceptional organizational and prioritization skills to manage multiple projects.
- Attention to detail, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience working with technical teams and understanding of the development lifecycle.
- Proficiency in SQL for data querying and analysis.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and formulas like VLOOKUP.
- Data modeling expertise, understanding data entities, attributes, and relationships.
- Familiarity with product interfaces such as XML/JSON, APIs, and front-end viewers.
- A proven track record of problem solving and solution development.
- Motivated, energetic, with a strong work ethic and willingness to tackle challenging tasks.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Ability to build strong relationships across all organizational levels.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher required.