Assoc. Director of Product Management
Horizontal Talent · Boston, MA · Yesterday
HybridContract
Responsibilities
- Partner with business and technology teams to define requirements for investment products, portfolios, securities, transactions, and market data.
- Create source-to-target mapping documentation to show how data moves from upstream systems to downstream platforms.
- Validate data transformation rules, field mappings, and business logic to help ensure accurate data movement across systems.
- Perform data reconciliation to identify, investigate, and resolve discrepancies between source and target environments.
- Support data migration, integration, and system enhancement efforts by checking for completeness and accuracy.
- Work closely with business users, operations, developers, and QA partners to confirm functional and data-related requirements.
- Create test scenarios, test cases, and traceability documentation based on business needs.
- Coordinate user acceptance testing, including execution support, defect tracking, and validation of fixes.
- Monitor data feeds and interfaces to help ensure timely and accurate processing.
- Contribute to production issue investigation and reconciliation break resolution as needed.
- Support product strategy, roadmap planning, and continuous improvement efforts across the product lifecycle.
Requirements
- Strong experience in product management, digital strategy, or a related discipline.
- Background in investment data, financial instruments, or financial services environments.
- Working knowledge of user acceptance testing and test documentation.
- Ability to analyze data using SQL and Excel.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work across business and technical teams.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and a detail-oriented mindset.
- Able to manage multiple priorities in a collaborative, fast-moving environment.
- Experience supporting agile ways of working.
- Comfort working with stakeholders at different levels of the organization.
Skills
- Experience with security master data, holdings and positions, portfolio accounting, or investment reporting.
- Exposure to equities, fixed income, derivatives, IBOR/ABOR transactions, or similar investment data domains.
- Experience in enterprise product lifecycle management from concept through launch and optimization.
- Familiarity with market research, competitive analysis, and customer insight gathering.
- Experience supporting roadmap development and feature prioritization.
- Knowledge of Agile, Lean, Scrum, or product management frameworks.
- Experience collaborating on enterprise-scale digital transformation initiatives.
- Interest in emerging technologies and innovative product approaches.