Director, Product Owner

Job Description:

Role

As a Fixed Income Product Owner, you blend investment management, relevant industry knowledge and an Agile mindset for delivering results with a passion. You are the end-to-end gatekeeper of the squad's mission, strategy, and tactical execution associated with delivering on strategic priorities. In an agile structure, you will partner with other Fidelity leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions, roadmaps, and resource requirements. You will set and refine the mission and bring together a team of chapter members to execute. You will alignment the Squad on the what and when work is to be performed through ongoing planning and prioritization of a product backlog. You will enable squad members to work iteratively, innovate through testing and experimentation and learn from failures while celebrating success. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science or engineering preferred.
• 7+ years’ experience working as a Product Owner in a software development environment.
• Experience building Asset Management or Trading workflows/products is required.
• Experience designing, creating, and maintaining dynamic products and solutions.
• Experience building roadmaps and working with agile team to deliver on milestones.
• Experience leading an agile development team.

The Skills You Bring

• You grasp sophisticated product features and break them into clear and concise narratives with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria and efficiently communicate these.
• You have a strong focus on execution and identify, communicate, and remove impediments to progress.
• You are capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building hard-working teams.
• You build and maintain unquestioning relationships as you work across Fidelity to deliver business outcomes and seek out the expertise of colleagues to advise on your approach.
• You are intellectually curious and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching.
• You possess strong business knowledge related to building products that display financial information to customers.

The Value You Deliver

• Defining, refining, and communicating the squads' mission and roadmap to empower and establish team and partner support and alignment.
• Defining, evaluating, and communicating results against acceptance criteria.
• Anticipating, discovering through ongoing interaction with, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as their voice and guide execution of the team.
• Measuring performance against established objectives and critical metrics and delivering agreed upon business, technology, and people results.
• Collaborating and coordinating with chapter leaders and scrum masters to build squad capacity and capability and enabling squad member growth, development, and learning.
• Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines.
• Participating in client meetings to present strategic roadmaps, participate in client usability sessions, engage with client user groups.

The Team

In our Fixed Income Technology organization, we are committed to empowering our investment professionals with the very best tools and technologies to deliver world class investment performance to our customers. Our technology experts work across a broad array of investment processes supporting many different types of securities and investment objectives. Through outstanding business and technology partnership, we can offer great solutions to help our customers meet their financial objectives.

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Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.