Senior Product Specialist

Standard Chartered Bank; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 10,00,000 - 15,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading multinational bank in Bengaluru seeks a Product Manager to craft product vision and manage post-trade lifecycle for investment management. The ideal candidate has 3-6 years experience, strong communication skills, and an understanding of financial instruments. This role involves collaboration across teams to deliver comprehensive business solutions.

Qualifications

• 3 - 6 years of overall work experience.
• Comprehensive understanding of the end-to-end post-trade lifecycle across diverse asset classes.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Craft the product vision and product roadmap.
• Work closely with engineers/architects to translate product specifications.
• Evaluate progress of product/feature-in-flight.

Skills

Product Management

Communication skills

Critical thinking

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Craft the product vision, transaction and reference data modules which offer master data management and asset servicing capabilities for investment management firms.
• Distil the vision into a product roadmap and product/feature specifications by requirement gathering and business analysis.
• Work closely with the engineers/architects to translate the product specification to design, and then to the product itself.
• Rigorously and continuously evaluate the progress of product/feature-in-flight by leveraging the created test cases/beds and ensure compliance with the product/feature specification and the vision.
• Be involved in conducting competitor analysis.
• Articulate business cases, estimate timelines and budgets and communicate with all stakeholders, prepare project plans, release notes, etc.
• Work with other product managers for projects cutting across multiple business areas to provide comprehensive business solutions.

Requirements:

• 3 - 6 years of overall work experience.
• Comprehensive understanding of the end-to-end post-trade lifecycle across diverse asset classes.
• Good to have Product Management experience.
• Good understanding of post-trade life cycle in asset management.
• Understanding of different financial instruments and their lifecycle is preferred.
• Experience in working closely with engineering teams.
• Outstanding academic background and passion to work in a high-tech software development environment.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Critical thinking and the ability to articulate standpoints/ideas and influence stakeholders.
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple lines of execution with attention to detail and quality.
• A high level of personal maturity and a collaborative attitude.
• A healthy combination of resourcefulness, domain expertise, creativity and execution process.