Product Owner - Capital Markets, Fixed Income, Assistant Vice President

About the role

The Product Platforms team is responsible for coordinating activities between the business (trading desk, sales, product, legal, compliance, risk, business control) and the Tech & Ops organizations. In this role, you will have the opportunity to become a subject matter expert in Capital Markets business flows, with an initial focus in Syndicate, to help to renovate associated technical infrastructure and tools.

Responsibilities

• Support product owners with definition and prioritization of product roadmap, release planning, and development and communication of business requirements
• Aid with critical user journeys, use cases, workflows, and business processes that align with the product vision/goals and address critical user and control needs
• Identify, groom, and validate epics and user stories for agile sprints
• Refine and plan backlog for agile sprints
• Specify acceptance criteria, review testing cases/scenarios, and perform and oversee user acceptance testing as needed
• Analyze, define, and manage data flows/models and diverse datasets to define requirements and expected behavior for Morgan Stanley's digital planning solutions
• Work closely with the technology team to assure effective communication of requirements and rapid delivery of key product releases
• Collaborate with key stakeholders from business, technology, UX, risk, cyber & fraud, communications, legal & compliance to elicit requirements
• Prepare presentations, user demos, and status updates
• Gather, organize, and assimilate internal and external feedback to identify and prioritize product gaps, enhancements, and new features
• Collaborate with UI/UX team to develop information/interaction architecture, user flows, wireframes, and visual design comps
• Team up with program management office to effectively organize and plan product releases
• Define, collect, and track KPIs and product/program adoption and usage metrics
• Evangelize for adoption

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience as a software business or systems analyst with track record of delivering new innovative web or mobile applications within an agile/scrum development process
• Proven track record of delivering successful digital products on time and within scope
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all levels of the organization

Skills

• BA or BS preferred, but not required