S&P Global, Inc

Head of Product - WSO

S&P Global, Inc$155K — $232K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Significant experience from a top enterprise software vendor providing front-office solutions.
  • 10+ years of product management experience, preferably in the loan industry.
  • Deep understanding of the syndicated lending market and related technologies.
  • Adept at building relationships with clients and colleagues at all levels.
  • Strong strategic thinking skills to translate market insights into actionable product strategies.
  • Proficiency in modern software development methodologies and practices, including Agile and Scrum.
  • Bachelor’s Degree.

Responsibilities

  • Direct product strategy and maintain alignment with business goals.
  • Design mechanisms to validate roadmap and ensure success.
  • Consult on projects as a subject matter expert for requirements analysis.
  • Document requirements including customer journeys and user stories.
  • Formulate strategies for stakeholder engagement and manage expectations.
  • Recommend market penetration strategies based on customer insights.
  • Handle escalations and maintain communications with key stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Flexibility to work remotely or adjust hours for work-life balance.
  • Support for return to work initiatives for those reentering the job market.
Full Job Description
About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

14

The Team: The Enterprise Solutions business within S&P Global Market intelligence provides buy-side, sell-side, and corporate clients with industry-leading software, data and services. The business portfolio offers a broad range of product offerings covering enterprise data management, investment management, loans platforms, regulatory and compliance solutions, and private markets solutions.

Impact & Responsibilities:  Our Lending Solutions business portfolio is comprised of products that power the global lending ecosystem across the entire loans and credit ecosystem. This comprises of market-leading products including:

  • WSO Software: Resolves the operational complexities of loan portfolio management by automating data flows, reducing risks, and streamlining processes, ultimately providing a scalable and efficient solution for asset managers overseeing diverse portfolios.

  • WSO Services: Powered by WSO Software, is an outsourced managed service solution crafted to optimize efficiency and deliver real-time access to data along with various post-trade loan administration services including agent administration, cash reconciliation, and investment accounting.

  • ClearPar: A solution for automating and streamlining the trade settlement process for syndicated loans, facilitating efficient and risk-reduced transactions across the global lending markets.

  • Debtdomain: Designed to help banks and institutional investors manage the entire lifecycle of syndicated loans and private credit transactions.

  • Notice Manager & Loan Reference Data: Industry leading loan data & document workflow solutions supporting middle and back-office lifecycle for asset managers and asset servicers in syndicated and private loans. It provides real-time access to loan information from a single validated source providing workflow automation for diversified credit portfolios, CLOs, & OMSs on syndicated and leveraged loans.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Product Strategy and Vision: 

    • Directs the development, maintenance and communication of product plans and roadmaps, and ensures alignment of plans and roadmaps to the overall strategic business goals.

    • Designs and refines mechanisms (e.g., document templates, information gathering, information sharing across cross-functional stakeholders, training, performance metrics) to validate roadmap and ensure long-term business success.

  • Product Execution and Delivery: 

    • Consults on various projects as a requirement analysis SME.

    • Stays current with industry and vendor products in terms of improvements and enhancements.

    • Directs team to document requirements including customer journey, epics, features, user stories, outlining what is in and out of scope.

    • Assesses alignment between requirements, solutions and eventual outcomes.

  • Stakeholder Management and Influence:

    • Formulates stakeholder management and engagement strategy, taking into consideration changes in stakeholders’ demands, priorities and expectations.

    • Serves as subject matter resource to provide advice to teams and key client stakeholders.

    • Addresses mismatched areas of expectation.

    • Drives the relationship process and communications plans to ensure that stakeholders are constantly kept informed.

  • Customer Insight: 

    • Recommends strategies for increased market penetration.

    • Synergizes the market segments, customer requirements and trends to enhance products and services.

    • Handles major customer escalations.

Compensation/Benefits Information (US Applicants Only):

S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $155,896 to $232,524. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location.

In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for additional compensation such as annual incentive bonus plan.

This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, visit https://www.spgbenefitessentials.com/newhires.

What We’re Looking For:

  • Significant experience from a market-leading enterprise software vendor of front-office solutions.

  • 10+ years of product management experience, previous experience within Loan industry preferred.

  • Deep understanding of the syndicated lending market, loan platforms, private market solutions, and related technologies.

  • Adept at building and maintaining trusted and credible relationships with clients and colleagues at all levels.

  • Strong strategic thinking and ability to translate market insights into actionable product strategies.

  • Strong organizational, problem-solving, and planning skills

  • A strong collaborator who enjoys being the bridge between engineering, product, and internal stakeholders

  • Ability to understand and communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to work effectively across departments and levels of the organization.

  • Proven experience providing roadmaps, product overviews, reports, backlog, and documentation for enterprise technology solutions.

  • Proven experience of modern software development methodologies and practices (SDLC, Agile, Scrum, etc.), and tools

  • Engaging and credible presence, particularly at executive levels

  • Bachelor’s Degree

Flexible Working

We pride ourselves on our agility and diversity, and we welcome requests to work flexibly. For most roles, flexible hours and/or an element of remote working are usually possible. Please talk to us at interview about the type of arrangement that is best for you. We will always try to be adaptable wherever we can.

Return to Work

Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return to Work initiative (link to career site page when available), we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace.

About S&P Global, Inc

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Size
22,850 employees
Market Cap
$107.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.3 billion
Founded
1888
5 Year Trend
+7.9%
Revenue
$7.4 billion
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