Manager, Reference Data, Product Management

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.; Bedford (IN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is seeking a Manager, Reference Data, Product Management for Entity and Private Credit to lead development of innovative reference data products and enhancements.

The role focuses on entity data and alternative investments, with cross-functional leadership across product, analytics, and engineering. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in reference data, strong communication skills, and a proven ability to drive product roadmaps in a data-driven

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required and 5+ years in financial services with reference data.
• 3+ years of querying/retrieving data from structured databases using SQL/Oracle and Python.
• Experience with alternative investments is preferred.
• Excellent ability to communicate technical ideas to non-domain colleagues.
• Strong collaboration, cross-functional teamwork, and clear senior-management storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Lead idea generation, technical development, implementation and launch of products for entity data and private credit investments.
• Define strategy to leverage external data for platform growth within the region.
• Contribute to product roadmap and prioritize work to address key focus areas.
• Collaborate with other product and development leaders to align roadmaps and delivery.
• Drive integration and buildout of strategic acquisitions into product lines.
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop business requirements for customers.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

SQL

Python

Excel

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SQL/Oracle

APIs

XML/JSON

Job description

Overview

Job Purpose

The Manager, Reference Data, Product Management for Entity and Private Credit joins a dynamic team exposed to and challenged with driving revenue growth, leading the development of innovative products, and enhancing existing data assets. We are looking for a talented and passionate Product Manager to help drive forward product development with a background in reference data, entity content and alternative investments. You should have experience building, enhancing, or supporting products related to reference data.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team through the idea generation, technical development, implementation and launch of innovative products for entity data and alternative investments (private credit, private equity).
• Be the lead contributor towards the design and implementation of new business initiatives (e.g., new products).
• Define strategy to leverage external data for effective platform/product growth within the region.
• Take a data-driven approach to product enhancements, identifying opportunity areas and contributing to the Product roadmap, prioritizing work to deliver against key areas of focus.
• Partner with Strategic Delivery functions to develop and execute on product roadmaps.
• Participate in both formulating the business strategy as well as channeling into a clearly defined direction and product strategy.
• Work with other product and development leaders to ensure alignment with their roadmaps and delivery.
• Serve a critical role in the successful integration and subsequent product buildout of strategic company acquisitions.
• Participate in cross-functional teams (e.g. Product, Business Analysis, Software Engineering) in the development of business requirements to meet customer needs.
• Collaborate with target market representatives, customers, and partners to create powerful and revenue generating solutions for the marketplace.
• Expertise in business requirements writing. Requires extensive knowledge of all areas of the business including but not limited to content, development, product design, workflow, billing, and configuration.
• Must be well versed in industry and company focused initiatives and understand how that content could be utilized within reference data products.
• Understand the business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and help recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
• Liaise with the Stakeholders in managing, defining, prioritizing, planning, and executing the vision for our applications targeting our core Data Services customers.
• Identify and communicate project risks and issues.
• Ability to operate in a multi-tasking and deadline driven team environment.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning by leveraging the learning & development curriculum to augment existing knowledge, skills, and experiences.
• Maximize efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm.

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree is a minimum.
• 5 of experience in the financial services industry working with reference data. Ideally, some of these were when you were leading a team.
• 3 years of experience querying / retrieving data from structured databases (SQL/Oracle. Python).
• Experience with alternative investments
• Excellent ability to communicate technical ideas and concepts to colleagues outside the domain.
• Strong collaboration skills – ability to navigate cross functional teams to deliver on shared objectives.
• Excellent communication and listening skills with an ability to develop a clear message for senior management and craft the story around it.
• Must have the ability to develop strong relationships with colleagues at all levels of the organization
• Organized and structured with excellent attention to detail.
• Acute understanding of how data is stored and flows through systems and databases.
• Skilled in excel to analyze data, identify trends, and come to conclusions.
• Understanding of how to identify and develop product enhancements.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills – solid hands-on experience of functional analysis, with extensive experience translating business requirements into functional, design and test documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills – ability to work with the client/user community to translate their requirements, however expressed, into development materials and conversely present development materials to client/users in a comprehensible way.
• Must be able to supervise, organize, prioritize workload and work on numerous projects/tasks at one time.
• A working knowledge, and ideally hands on experience, of the development life cycle, covering basic design, testing cycles from unit to acceptance testing, implementation, and post release bug/issue fixes.
• Familiarity with a range of product interfaces (XML/JSON Files, APIs, Front-End Viewers).
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

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Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.