Role Description
Role Proficiency:
Contributes in driving the Product Vision that addresses cross-domain market needs with strong business viability in line with the Product/Platform Portfolio and guidance from Managers. Assists Managers in delivering the desired product and platform outcomes from initial conception to implementation and support.
Outcomes
- A strong evangelist of Product & Platforms Division’s Vision and Philosophy
- Actively contributes in driving the product vision approach after sound product research and discovery through modern product discovery practises
- Performs primary and secondary research; executes and tracks the product/platform strategy
- Ensures clear and unambiguous translation of Product Value Roadmap of deliverables to enable the product team to complete work
- Ensures adherence to the Product Value Roadmap set by Product Managers and Product Leadership
- Drafts user stories and ensures they are clearly understood by the cross functional product teams
- Ensures Product requirements are gathered and prioritized
- Ensures commitment to and tracking of clear Product Metrics under guidance from Managers
- Drives the execution of product development in collaboration with Product Team members comprised of Product Design Technology & Data Science
- Tracks/drives Product Metrics and success goals under the guidance from Managers
- Adherence to modern product management practises and standards; providing periodic status updates
- Supports Product Managers and Senior Product Managers in product demos
- Supports in achieving the Product OKRs
Measures Of Outcomes
- Adherence to agreed product roll-out timelines
- Achievement of Product Metrics
- Achievement of Product OKR's
- Product Team Performance
- Number of domain and product certifications
Outputs Expected
Plan to develop outstanding products and platforms:
- Strong research enabling sound Product Discovery
- Co-facilitates Discovery Sprints under guidance from Product and Senior Product Managers
- Write and articulate impressive user stories by capturing and translating solutions for identified user problems into product features that deliver value and impress users
- Execute early feasibility risk mitigations through product prototyping/POCs
- Adherence to Product OKR's
Design To Deliver Vast End -user Experience
- Facilitate sound user research across target market segments
- Influence implementing design user-centric experiences throughout the user journey
- Assist in defining user experience (e.g. wire framing journey maps) partnering with product designers
Research The Market To Ensure An Unfair Advantage
- Sound understanding of market trends partner ecosystems and competitive strategies
- Understanding users the marketplace the competition and future trends for the domain or type of system being developed through customer and market research competitive analysis and rapidly acquiring domain expertise
- Define and articulate unique product and business differentiation
Manage Business To Acquire Additional Markets
- Assist in implementing the GTM strategies and achieve the metrics for product success
- Protect assets and mitigate risks employing IP knowledge
Manage Great People
- Inspire Product teams communicate with diverse groups and influence change throughout the organization
Use Great Technology
- Good understanding and usage of tech stacks
- Good understanding of exponential technologies including AI/ML IoT Blockchain
- Agile proficiency for Rapid Product Discovery & Development
- Employ the latest technology in product management by diving deep into technology trends and architectures
Employ Great Methods In Product Management
- Understand different product management and development approaches
- Understand product usage models
Skill Examples
- Ability to understand and articulate the core positioning messaging and value propositions of the product
- Ability to support product demos to customers/end users
- Ability to define the user experience to be incorporated into the User Design
- Aptitude in creating user stories
- Ability to create market customer and competition research based on understanding of market trends partner ecosystems and competitive strategies
- Capable of motivating the team to build and deliver impressive products
Knowledge Examples
Knowledge Examples
- Domain / Industry Knowledge: Working knowledge of standard business processes within the relevant industry vertical customer business domain
- Technology Trends Knowledge: Demonstrates broad knowledge of technology trends related to multiple inter-related technologies
- Proficient in user story writing
- Knowledge of market trends partner ecosystems and competitive strategies
- Proficient in product documentation
- Expertise in people management
- Knowledge of technology trends and architectures
Additional Comments
- Experience of minimum 10 years
- Good understanding of Capital Markets or Wealth Management domain
- Flexible to work in any shift timings Good understanding of Capital Markets domain
- SME knowledge of Portfolio Reporting/Performance Measurement with prior experience of supporting enhancement requests from Clients SME knowledge of tax lot calculations with prior experience of supporting enhancement requests from Clients
- Strong understanding of SDLC and Agile principles
- Work with product management, clients and the user community to define business requirements as needed
- Translate business requirements into appropriate functional specifications, product backlogs and/or user stories and ensure buy-in from stakeholders
- Identify and define product priorities as a product owner
- Lead and direct coordination between internal department including Development, Account Management, Client Services, Operations, Technical Services and QA for developing and implementing enhancements
- Balance business and technology issues as well as communicate appropriately with both technology and business experts
- Escalation point for resolving business application problems, address issues/concerns raised by clients and work towards any damage control during business hours, including work with Production Support, Tech Services, Development and Testing team for timely resolution
- Work with end-users to define and execute test scenarios and ensure appropriate end user training
- Maintain appropriate product documentation
- Timely communication for project statuses
Skills
Capital Markets,Wealth Management,Tax Lot Calculation