Product Owner with capital market

Responsibilities

• Define and own the product vision aligned with business objectives.
• Understand front-office, middle-office, and back-office workflows.
• Translate Capital Markets business needs into product roadmaps.
• Prioritize features that drive revenue, efficiency, risk reduction, and regulatory compliance.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog.
• Write and maintain epics, features, and user stories.
• Define acceptance criteria.
• Participate in Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Make prioritization decisions based on business value and risk.
• Work closely with traders, sales teams, risk teams, compliance teams, operations, technology teams, and senior business executives.
• Act as the bridge between business and technology, ensuring business requirements are delivered correctly.
• Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and validate business outcomes before production releases.
• Approve releases from a business perspective and coordinate production rollouts and stakeholder communication.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of one or more capital markets areas: Equities, Fixed Income, FX (Foreign Exchange), Derivatives, Prime Brokerage, Trade Lifecycle, Clearing & Settlement, Syndication & New Issue Processing, Electronic Trading Platforms.
• Particularly valuable knowledge of Primary Markets, Syndication, Book Building, Fixed Income, and Equities workflows.
• Technical fluency with APIs, cloud platforms, data lakes, AI/ML use cases, RAG and GenAI solutions, real-time event processing, FIX Protocol, Kafka, and trade messaging flows.

Skills

• Gather business requirements and analyze gaps in current processes.
• Define KPIs and success metrics; measure adoption, productivity improvements, and business outcomes.