Product Owner - Corporate Actions, VP

What We Are Looking For

The Charles River Development (CRD) Middle Office Product Team is seeking an experienced Product Owner and corporate actions expert to lead our corporate actions product development team. As the Product Owner, you will be responsible for defining and owning the strategic roadmap for the corporate actions product, and partner with engineering to deliver against it. You will act as a Charles River product expert and help to ensure that our software effectively supports our end users with their corporate actions and broader middle office workflows. You will be a leader in the full software development lifecycle, including managing business analysts within a feature-focused product development team. You will also partner closely with clients and internal teams across sales, relationship management, implementation, and support.

Why this job is important to us

At Charles River Development (CRD) we've been creating some of the most insightful and complex asset management technologies since 1997. The Charles River IMS is strategically aligned to innovate the future of investment management software. Together with State Street's middle and back office capabilities, Charles River's cloud-deployed software technology forms the foundation of State Street Alpha℠. Charles River Development brings together data and capabilities across the investment lifecycle to help our clients make better decisions, grow at scale, and deliver returns for their clients. As a product-led organization, we are committed to product quality and operating through a client-focused lens. Our diverse team of highly skilled technologists and professionals are agile thinkers and problem solvers, committed to our end users and engineering excellence. We use mentorship and teamwork to impact and drive our business forward every day. By joining the Middle Office team, you will use advanced technology and critical thinking to challenge the status quo and drive results.

Responsibilities

What you are responsible for

• Apply detailed knowledge and understanding of corporate actions in the investment lifecycle to own the planning and delivery of the product roadmap.
• Work directly with clients, sales, professional services, implementation, and support teams to gather product requirements and develop feature specifications.
• Perform competitive analysis and keep track of industry and regulatory trends to incorporate into the product roadmap.
• Partner with Engineering and QA to develop, implement, and refine features.
• Plan and execute large, complex product development initiatives and handle associated project management tasks.
• Work with other product teams on cross-product initiatives and effectively manage dependencies.
• Represent the corporate actions product in sales exercises and client implementations to ensure continued growth and success of the product.
• Assist with support issues, ensure timely resolution, and translate issues into features / bugs where appropriate.
• Produce and maintain product documentation and client-facing sales and educational materials.
• Lead a team of business analysts, directing their work and supporting their development.
• Take a leadership role in the agile software development process and adhere to the CRD Scrum Methodology.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development lifecycle experience, specifically Agile development methodologies and familiarity with tools such as Jira.
• Strong domain expertise in Corporate Actions, including all event types, market data, election workflows, and processing standards.
• Experience defining product strategy, managing roadmaps and prioritization, and reliably delivering against plans and commitments.
• Comfortable working with clients, explaining product capabilities, and understanding complex requirements.
• Demonstrated ability translating business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical product specification documents.
• Ability to take a highly organized and detail-oriented approach to the product development lifecycle.
• A desire to take an ownership mindset, leadership skills, and a proven track record managing and mentoring business analysts.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation skills and the ability to manage multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Advanced writing skills, including the ability to abstract/summarize highly detailed information.
• Strong analytical skills, including understanding complex data sets and the ability to reconcile conflicting data.
• Strong technical background, including familiarity with relational database (SQL, Postgres) and knowledge of cloud architecture.
• Knowledgeable in one or more CRD functional areas and/or State Street Alpha desirable.
• Education: BS Degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or study of Business with an MIS background. MS/MBA is preferable.

Pay

$110,000 - $188,750 Annual. The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Benefits

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.