Reference Data Product Manager

We deliver high quality, timely, and comprehensive data, in a controlled and standardized manner to reduce risk and total cost of ownership. We achieve these results by consolidating our processes and people to a single operating model and by rationalizing our technical platform to a core set of masters with a single distribution mechanism.

As a Reference Data Product Manager on the Digital & Platform Services team, you will have the opportunity to partner with technology teams and various businesses across the firm. You will be instrumental in analyzing use cases and recommending enterprise business solutions that align with our Reference Data Product Strategy and industry best practices. Your role will be pivotal in shaping the future state of our reference data product capabilities. We value your deep understanding of customer experience, your ability to identify product gaps, and your innovative ideas to improve customer experience and promote growth.

Job responsibilities:

• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas, improve customer experience and drive growth
• Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key Line of Business & Functional partners
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
• Function as an Independent ‘Product Owner’ who owns deliverables from the BOW (Book of Work) to analyze Requirements, raise clarifications with Stakeholders and create Atomic JIRAs for technology to deliver based on product vision and synergies.
• Function as a Stakeholder-facing Product Owner who can synthesize the requirements, drive the analysis with appropriate questions supported by workflow documents, scenario analysis and wireframes (as needed).
• Define the product backlog, create actionable user stories, prioritize stories based on epics, manage product backlog, and ensure development focuses on JIRAs with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
• Manage a team within reference data strategy team, comprised of both onshore and offshore resources

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Proven work experience in product management or as an associate product manager
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Systems with 7+ years’ experience as a technical product manager or functional product mgmt.
• Advanced experience using agile tools, JIRA, JIRA Portfolio, Confluence
• Requires strong SQL development skills, writing complex queries and stored procedures.
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development
• Strong problem solving skills and working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.