Real Assets Infrastructure Product Manager

MSCI Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MSCI Inc is seeking a Product Manager to drive the end-to-end lifecycle of new products and enhancements to existing offerings. The role involves market research, client interviews, and detailed requirements development, collaborating across teams on solutioning, estimation, and governance to prioritise initiatives.

You will participate in strategic business development projects, manage product release and launch support, and track performance with clients to refine offerings and pricing

Qualifications

• Market analysis and client interviews experience desirable.
• Strong ability to translate market needs into product requirements.
• Cross-functional collaboration and governance experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end product lifecycle with cross-functional teams.
• Conduct market research and client interviews to ideate new initiatives.
• Develop detailed product requirements and coordinate solutioning and estimation.
• Participate in governance to prioritise and time initiatives; monitor build progress and go-to-market planning.
• Track product success with clients and incorporate feedback.
• Drive development of Real Assets ideas with research and external partners.
• Create business plans with pricing, packaging, and market analysis.

Job description

Product Managers at MSCI are responsible for working with the other functions on the end-to-end lifecycle of new products and enhancements to existing products. This includes market research and client interviews to ideate and prototype new initiatives, fleshing out detailed requirements and working with other teams on the solutioning and estimation, participating in governance forums to determine prioritization and timing, monitoring the build process, quarterbacking go to market planning, and tracking the success of the product with clients.

Additionally, she/he will be part of important strategic business development projects and partnerships.

• Perform market analysis of existing and emerging client needs, industry trends, and competitive trends.
• Product Lifecycle Management: Identify new opportunities, service improvements, and cost reductions. In addition, contribute to the determination of pricing and profitability of the product, inclusive of the approval of special pricing where necessary.
• Presenting new ideas to clients in collaboration with the sales team and improving them based on client feedback.
• Develop new Real Assets ideas in collaboration with research including working with external providers and partners to onboard new data and developing new indexes
• Build a business plan with a strategic marketing mindset including elements of product, pricing, packaging, and competitive analysis to capture both sizeable part of the market and attractive revenue.
• Mapping out a plan for development of thematic Real Assets products for different client segments, working closely with Program Management, Engineering, Data Operations, and Research needed to penetrate those markets.
• Develop go-to-market plans for new products or features and prioritize their development.
• Product release & launch support, including coordinating changes to applications, standard data feeds, and salesforce; testing new features in relevant applications; preparing pitchbooks and factsheets; drafting FAQs and supporting documentation to support client facing teams; and coordinating and sending client communications.
• Working with sales, to understand how products are being received in the market and identifying ways to improve commercial packaging, targeting, positioning, and product-market fit.

• Deep and commercial understanding of the commercial real estate industry, global investment process and investment flows
• Working knowledge of the infrastructure segment of real assets, including core, core-plus, value-add and opportunistic strategies across sectors such as utilities, energy and renewables, transportation, digital and social infrastructure, and an understanding of the essential-service, long-duration, inflation-linked cash-flow characteristics that differentiate infrastructure from real estate and shape institutional demand from pension funds, insurers and sovereign wealth funds.
• Deep institutional commercial and strategic business experience in the investment industry, with significant experience managing global and regional cross functional teams
• Proven record of P&L management experience in Fintech, particularly in the subsegments of Investment & Capital Markets Technology and Financial Data
• Exceptional track record of managing, building, developing and growing sales, research and product management into high performing teams
• Excellent balance of strategy and process / execution
• Proven track record of sustained revenue and profitability growth as a dynamic and successful global product management business leader
• Experience of delivering projects to clients from pitch to execution
• Experience delivering against target sales goals