Service Mesh / Service Registry Product Director - Executive Director

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm in Glasgow is seeking a Product Management Director for Infrastructure Platforms. The role involves leading product strategies, managing teams, and fostering a culture of innovation. Ideal candidates have expertise in product delivery, change management, and excellent communication skills. This position offers an opportunity to significantly influence product development while ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of product development, technical design, and data analytics.
• Able to influence product lifecycle activities effectively.
• Proven track record in managing stakeholders across functions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee strategy, requirements definition, and product roadmap.
• Lead product life cycle and manage risks to achieve business targets.
• Coach and mentor product teams on best practices.

Skills

Delivery of products

Product development life cycle

Influence on product activities

Change management

Customer-centricity

Modern product management practices

Coaching and mentoring

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Job description

Job Description

Ignite your passion for product innovation by leading customer-centric development, inspiring solutions, and shaping the future with your strategic vision and influence.

As a Product Management Director in Infrastructure Platforms, you will lead the strategy and product management for our Service Mesh and Service Registry product areas, delivering capabilities and features that will delight our internal users. As a leader on the team, you leverage your advanced capabilities to challenge traditional approaches, remove barriers to success, and foster a culture of continuous innovation that helps inspire cross-functional teams create groundbreaking solutions that address customer needs.

Job responsibilities

• Oversees the strategy, requirements definition, product roadmap and backlog prioritization for the Service Mesh and Service Registry product areas.
• Leads the entire product life cycle through planning, execution, and future development by continuously adapting, developing new products and methodologies, managing risks, and achieving business targets like cost, features, scalability, and reliability to support growth
• Coaches and mentors the product team on best practices, such as solution generation, product discovery, storyboarding, mind-mapping, prototyping methods, product adoption strategies, and product delivery, enabling them to effectively deliver on objectives
• Owns product performance and is accountable for investing in enhancements to achieve business objectives
• Monitors market trends, conducts competitive analysis, and identifies opportunities for product differentiation and evolution

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experienced in delivering products, projects, or technology applications
• Extensive knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, and data analytics
• Proven ability to influence the adoption of key product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
• Experience of implementing change within organizations and managing stakeholders across multiple functions
• Champions a culture of customer-centricity, collaboration, and continuous improvement within IP product teams
• Excellent understanding of modern product management practices, such as discovery, design thinking, prototyping, journey mapping, competitive analysis, addressable market segmentation, prioritization, and roadmap development
• Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and develop others, both individually and at scale
• Experience of influencing cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders without direct authority
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to make complex concepts clear and actionable
• Proven analytical and systems thinking skills - able to connect day-to-day practices to organizational strategy and outcomes

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Recognized thought leader within a related field
• Experience of Service Mesh (istio) and Service Registry open source projects is desirable
• Experience working in technical product management or within infrastructure product domains

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.