Senior Technical Product Manager - Financial Data Distribution

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

ISS STOXX GmbH is seeking a Product Manager for Financial Data Distribution to lead the next generation of index data delivery across APIs, portals, and bulk channels. You will own the product vision, strategy, and cross‑functional delivery, partnering with business, technology, and operations teams globally.

The role requires deep experience in data product management, strong analytical skills, and the ability to make senior level tradeoffs on security, resilience, and client experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software or data product management with platform focus.
• Ability to translate business needs into product requirements and roadmaps.
• Experience collaborating with senior engineers and architects on design tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Define, own, and evolve data distribution product strategy and roadmap.
• Lead discovery sessions and translate client needs into clear requirements.
• Manage backlog prioritisation, sprint goals, and acceptance criteria with engineering.
• Engage stakeholders, present roadmaps, and contribute to governance forums.
• Define KPIs for availability, latency, data quality, and client satisfaction.

Skills

Data product management

Stakeholder engagement

Technical collaboration

Agile methodologies

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

API/FTP/Web distribution design

Job description

ISS STOXX is seeking a Product Manager - Financial Data Distribution to join our Software Product Management team in STOXX lead the next generation of our index data distribution strategy and platform capabilities across entitlement, access control, and multi-channel delivery. This individual will drive product strategy end-to-end and act as the accountable interface between business outcomes and technical execution to mature how STOXX delivers index data to clients globally, including Web portals, APIs, bulk delivery mechanisms, MCP (AI enabling pipelines), and third-party data marketplace integrations. This role owns the product vision, roadmap, and delivery outcomes for index data distribution and is expected to make senior level tradeoffs across scalability, client experience, security, and operational resilience. Individual Contributor role with strategic ownership and strong technical accountability. The ideal candidate will have experience in data distribution models product management and project delivery and a proven ability to liaise between clients, business and technology teams. If you thrive in a dynamic environment where you can drive innovation, efficiency, and collaboration, this is an excellent opportunity for you.

Key Responsibilities

• 1. Product Strategy - Data Distribution Define, own, and continuously evolve STOXX's index data distribution product strategy and target architecture. Assess client needs, market trends, regulatory constraints, and internal platform capabilities to shape a multiyear, outcome driven roadmap towards optimizing and modernizing index data distribution. Understand the future of data distribution by working across third party platform distributors and directly with client distribution platforms.
• 2. Product Discovery & Requirements Definition Lead structured product discovery and design sessions with clients, business, technology, operations. Translate business and client needs into clear product requirements, technical specifications, and prioritised backlog items. Own product documentation including problem statements, solution options, tradeoffs, and decision rationale. Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria.
• 3. Technical Delivery Collaboration Own backlog prioritisation based on client value, risk, technical dependencies, and strategic alignment. Define sprint goals, provide product direction to engineering teams, and coach junior Product Managers and Business Analysts as required. Define acceptance criteria, nonfunctional requirements (performance, resilience, security), and collaborate with QA to ensure production ready delivery. Act as escalation point for complex delivery issues and make prioritisation tradeoffs to maintain momentum and quality. Follow progress and proactively address issues during sprints. Refine agile methodologies based on feedback.
• 4. Stakeholder Engagement & Governance Primary senior product contact for client service, commercial, and operations teams on all index data distribution topics. Present roadmaps to leadership. Partner with commercial teams on pricing, packaging, and go to market strategy for data distribution products and channels. Contribute to governance forums, steering committees, and executive updates with clear data driven insights.
• 5. Continuous Improvement Define and monitor KPIs for availability, latency, data quality, entitlement accuracy, and client satisfaction. Drive automation, resilience, and observability improvements across distribution pipelines. Reduce distribution errors and enhance client experience.

Essential

• Bachelor's or master's degree in finance, IT, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in software or data product management, with at least 3 years in technically complex, platform-oriented products.
• Strong understanding of modern index or analytics data distribution architectures, including APIs, event/batch delivery, entitlement models, and access controls.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior engineers and architects on design and tradeoff decisions.
• Experience defining API/FTP/Web distribution requirements.

Preferred

• Knowledge of the index business preferred.
• Experience with agentic solution incorporation
• Handson experience with cloud-based data platforms and distribution, preferably GCP
• Familiarity with authentication, SFTP security, RESTful API design.
• Experience providing functional leadership, mentoring, or coaching within a product or delivery organisation.

Personal Attributes

• Ability to lead transformation platform projects steering groups across the organization towards roadmap execution
• Strong analytical skills and a passion for working with data to solve business challenges.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds (business, operations, IT).
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for outcomes, not just outputs.
• Pragmatic, goal-oriented, and problem-solving mindset with the ability to manage complex projects.
• Proficiency in English (both written and verbal).

At ISS STOXX, our people are our driving force. We are committed to building a culture that values diverse skills, perspectives, and experiences. We hire the best talent in our industry and empower them with the resources, support, and opportunities to grow-professionally and personally. Together, we foster an environment that fuels creativity, drives innovation, and shapes our future success. Let's empower, collaborate, and inspire. Let's be #BrilliantTogether.

About ISS STOXX

ISS STOXX GmbH is a leading provider of research and technology solutions for the financial market. Established in 1985, we offer top‑notch benchmark and custom indices globally, helping clients identify investment opportunities and manage portfolio risks. Our services cover corporate governance, sustainability, cyber risk, and fund intelligence. Majority‑owned by Deutsche Börse Group, ISS STOXX has over 3,400 professionals in 33 locations worldwide, serving around 6,400 clients, including institutional investors and companies focused on ESG, cyber, and governance risk. Clients trust our expertise to make informed decisions for their stakeholders' benefit. STOXX® and DAX® indices comprise a global and comprehensive family of more than 17,000 strictly rules‑based and transparent indices. Best known for the leading European equity indices EURO STOXX 50®, STOXX® Europe 600 and DAX®, the portfolio of index solutions consists of total market, benchmark, blue‑chip, sustainability, thematic and factor‑based indices covering a complete set of world, regional and country markets. STOXX and DAX indices are licensed to more than 550 companies around the world for benchmarking purposes and as underlyings for ETFs, futures and options, structured products, and passively managed investment funds. STOXX Ltd., part of the ISS STOXX group of companies, is the administrator of the STOXX and DAX indices under the European Benchmark Regulation.