Market Data Product Manager

Our Hedge Fund client is seeking to hire a Senior Product Manager with extensive Enterprise Market Data experience. This role is part of a continued effort to enhance and optimize the company's market data capabilities for their growing systematic businesses.

Responsibilities include

• Consult with users to understand and document business requirements and workflows
• Engage with Business Management and development leads to facilitate prioritization of Portfolio Manager's (PM) technology requests
• Expectation management and clear communication with the PMs, Business Management and the development teams
• Maintain traceability of functional specifications to requirements/objectives
• Project management of bespoke strategic platform buildouts that may benefit multiple PMs
• Work closely with Portfolio Managers and teams across the firm to facilitate the efficient onboarding and ongoing expansion of trading groups
• Reporting of progress and/or risks to the appropriate management channels and escalation of issues, as necessary.
• Close collaboration with the SPEED team providing both product and project management support across the Market Data organization
• Be initial point of project escalation and understanding when to escalate up as needed
• Align and track project resources and tasks
• Effectively partner with the Project Architect and Development team

Skills include

• Requires 7+ years of related professional project management experience
• Requires 5+ years' experience in the financial services industry, preferably with Equities/Futures/Options/FX and electronic trading
• Requires 3+ years' experience of real time market data solutions for a global organization including infrastructure and development. The ideal candidate will have experience working with proprietary solutions as well as direct feeds, Reuters, Bloomberg, Factset distribution infrastructures both on-prem and cloud
• Strong understanding of real-time (and ideally low latency) system design and implementation
• Ability to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment with a good sense of urgency and ownership
• Experience with development methodologies including waterfall or agile as well as expertise with tools including JIRA and Confluence
• Strong analytical skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to present a polished, professional, and diplomatic image to all stakeholders
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills (both verbal and written)
• Ability to handle multiple projects and tasks simultaneously within a tight time frame
• Experience of specifying and writing user specifications and business requirements for development teams
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of key data principals