Full Job Description
Product Manager - Enterprise Data Management Platform Services, Charles River Development, Assistant Vice President
State Street Alpha is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Product Manager to help drive the next generation of our Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform services. You'll help shape cloud-native, independently deployable data services that help some of the world's largest investment firms master, govern and distribute their data at scale.
This role suits a product manager with 5+ years of experience in data management or financial software who is ready to own significant capability areas. Reporting to the EDM product lead, you will own requirements and delivery for capabilities across entity and identifier resolution, reference data management, extensible data models and release management.
You'll work closely with engineering, architecture and client teams to turn business needs into well-defined, prioritized features that deliver measurable client value.
What You Will Be Responsible For
• Own one or more EDM platform service capabilities, such as entity and identifier resolution or reference data management, from requirements through delivery.
• Partner with the product lead to shape and communicate the roadmap for your capability areas to internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead requirements definition, including epics, user stories and acceptance criteria, and keep features aligned with business objectives.
• Define configurable matching and resolution rules, data mappings and reference data standards across securities, issuers, accounts and related domains.
• Contribute to data model extensibility and release readiness requirements so clients can adopt new capabilities with minimal disruption.
• Lead client calls and workshops to gather insights and validate requirements that drive product decisions.
• Prioritize competing needs and manage trade-offs, dependencies and risks across engineering, architecture and client delivery teams.
• Facilitate design reviews and working sessions, and guide the user acceptance testing approach for your capability areas.
• Track delivery progress and report status, risks and outcomes to product leadership.
• Guide business analysts and junior product team members on requirements quality and domain knowledge.
Qualifications
• 5+ years of combined experience in product management or business analysis for software products, ideally in financial services or enterprise SaaS.
• Enterprise data management experience, including exposure to security master, entity resolution, identifier cross-referencing or reference data.
• Strong domain knowledge of financial markets and the investment lifecycle, including securities, issuers, pricing, portfolios and transactions.
• Proven ability to write high-quality requirements and lead requirements gathering with business and technical stakeholders.
• Working understanding of cloud-native, API-driven and multi-tenant architectures; SQL and data analysis skills are a plus.
• Familiarity with market data providers (e.g., Bloomberg, Refinitiv, ICE, MSCI) is a plus.
• Experience with Agile delivery and tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Polished communication skills and the credibility to engage senior stakeholders and clients.
• Ability to work as part of a global, distributed organization.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance or a related field; progress toward CFA or CAIA is desirable.
• Experience with investment management platforms such as Charles River IMS is a plus.
• Ability to travel as required for client engagements (~20%), including internationally.
Salary Range:
$90,000 - $157,500 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.
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.
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