Product Owner — Reference and Market Data

Broadridge Financial Solutions; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Broadridge Financial Solutions in Hyderabad seeks a Product Owner to own and refine the product backlog, shape the product vision, and partner with cross‑functional teams to deliver value in financial services projects.

You will translate complex market needs into actionable epics and stories, participate in Scrum ceremonies, and ensure clear acceptance criteria. Strong analytical and stakeholder skills are essential for success in this fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in finance/business/tech.
• Experience as Product Owner/PM in fintech or financial products.
• Strong understanding of financial markets and reference data.
• Experience in Agile delivery, Scrum ceremonies, backlog refinement, and release planning.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and refine the product backlog aligned with strategy and roadmap.
• Collaborate with Product Manager to define vision, objectives, and market opportunities.
• Work with Engineering, QA, UX, Data, Architecture, and Operations to groom features and clarify requirements.
• Translate financial-market requirements into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and stakeholder feedback sessions.
• Define testable acceptance criteria and ensure stories are ready for development.

Skills

Backlog management

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder management

Communication

Requirements gathering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Technology, Economics

Tools

Jira

Job description

At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you’re passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team.

Key Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, prioritize, and continuously refine the product backlog in alignment with product strategy, customer needs, business priorities, and roadmap commitments.
• Partner with the Product Manager to define product vision, strategic objectives, roadmap themes, market opportunities, and success measures.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, QA, UX, Data, Architecture, and Operations teams to groom features, clarify requirements, resolve dependencies, and support timely delivery.
• Translate business objectives and complex financial‑market requirements into epics, features, user stories, process flows, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, story elaboration, sprint reviews, product demonstrations, and stakeholder feedback sessions.
• Ensure user stories are ready for development by defining functional behavior, data attributes, validation rules, exception handling, dependencies, and testable acceptance criteria.
• Make day‑to‑day prioritization decisions by balancing customer value, market needs, regulatory requirements, operational risk, technical dependencies, delivery capacity, and time‑to‑market considerations.
• Serve as the primary business and functional point of contact for the Scrum team, providing timely clarification and decisions throughout the development lifecycle.
• Partner with stakeholders to validate delivered functionality, incorporate feedback, and confirm release readiness.
• Identify and manage product, data, process, and dependency risks; drive appropriate resolution and escalation.
• Support release planning, stakeholder communications, product documentation, training, and change‑management activities.
• Define and monitor product success measures, including adoption, data quality, user satisfaction, delivery predictability, operational efficiency, and realized business value.
• Champion continuous improvement in product discovery, backlog quality, Agile practices, delivery processes, and stakeholder collaboration.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Technology, Economics, or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• Demonstrated experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Manager, or similar role supporting financial technology, market data, investment‑management, or enterprise financial products.
• Prior experience in the financial technology sector, with a strong understanding of financial‑services workflows, data usage, and client needs.
• Strong domain knowledge of financial markets, investment products, and reference data, including instrument, issuer, entity, pricing, corporate actions, classifications, identifiers, symbology, and security hierarchies.
• Working knowledge of financial data from major industry vendors, including Bloomberg, LSEG Data & Analytics (formerly Refinitiv), S&P Global Market Intelligence/Markit, FactSet, and ICE Data Services.
• Strong understanding of multiple asset classes, including Equities, Fixed Income, listed and over‑the‑counter Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps, Credit Indices, Total Return Swaps, and other investment products.
• Knowledge of reference‑data sourcing, vendor data mapping, normalization, enrichment, data lineage, reconciliation, golden‑source practices, and data‑quality controls.
• Ability to understand financial instrument lifecycles and the downstream impact of data changes across trading, risk, operations, reporting, compliance, and client‑facing workflows.
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile delivery environments, including Scrum ceremonies, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.
• Hands‑on experience using Jira to create and manage epics, features, user stories, defects, workflows, dashboards, reports, and product backlogs.
• Ability to write clear, concise, and unambiguous user stories with detailed, testable acceptance criteria.
• Experience collaborating with technical teams and working knowledge of software‑delivery concepts, including APIs, data integrations, system dependencies, testing, and production releases.
• Excellent stakeholder‑management, communication, facilitation, analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, build alignment across cross‑functional stakeholders, and maintain focus on delivering measurable customer and business value.

We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work. We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company—and ultimately a community—that recognizes and celebrates everyone’s unique perspective.

Use of AI in Hiring

As part of the recruiting process, Broadridge may use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools, to help review and evaluate applications. These tools are used only to support our recruiters and hiring managers, and all employment decisions include human review to ensure fairness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable laws. Please note that honesty and transparency are critical to our hiring process. Any attempt to falsify, misrepresent, or disguise information in an application, resume, assessment, or interview will result in disqualification from consideration.

Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR) is a global technology leader with trusted expertise and transformative technology, helping clients and the financial services industry operate, innovate, and grow. We power investing, governance, and communications for our clients – driving operational resiliency, elevating business performance, and transforming investor experiences. Our technology and operations platforms process and generate over 7 billion communications annually and underpin the daily average trading of over $15 trillion in equities, fixed income, and other securities globally. A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 15,000 associates in 21 countries.

Broadridge is committed to creating an engaging workplace for the most talented associates in our industry. We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and healthy environment that promotes flexibility and accountability. As a leading provider of technology, communications, and data and analytics solutions to businesses around the world, it is critical that we understand, embrace, and operate in a multicultural environment. Every associate has unique strengths, which, when fully appreciated and embraced, allow individuals to perform at their best, leading to our success. We believe that our associates are our most important asset. Encouraging professional development opportunities is a core part of our culture. Broadridge provides educational opportunities, including formal classes, training programs and events. To enable learning in our hybrid working model, Broadridge has redesigned all development programs for 100% virtual delivery. Our associates have access to 8,500+ online courses covering business, leadership, technical, and function‑specific topics through our LinkedIn Learning program.