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Product Owner, State Street Associates, Vice President

 State Street

State Street

Product
Cambridge, MA, USA
Posted on Friday, January 26, 2024

Who We Are Looking For
The Product Owner – Insights Platform (Vice President) will be a member of the Insights product team and will assist in designing, developing, and deploying digital analytics and research product for Global Markets’ client facing research portal, Insights. The Insights team is part of State Street Associates (SSA), a unique partnership between State Street and thought leaders in academic finance, headquartered in Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA. In collaboration with our academic partners, we produce original research that is frequently published in academic and practitioner journals. This ever-expanding body of work drives our industry leading suite of multi-asset data products in areas such as asset flow and positioning, inflation, and market risk. Global Markets Research has recently been voted #1 in research by Euromoney’s 2023 industry survey. Our clients include the world’s largest and most sophisticated global asset managers and institutional investors.

Why this role is important to us

The team you will be joining is a part of State Street Global Markets (SSGM). When owners and managers of institutional assets need research, trading, securities lending and innovative portfolio strategies, they turn to the SSGM business unit. As our investment research and trading arm, SSGM’s number one goal is to enhance and preserve our clients’ portfolio values by applying technology, optimizing trading, and linking asset classes and markets across the world.

Join us if making your mark in the capital markets industry from day one is a challenge you are up for.

What You Will Be Responsible For
As a Product Owner, Vice President you will

  • Work with senior researchers, market strategists, technologists, and designers to help bring our research to life within our client-facing research portal, Insights.

  • Manage the digital product development lifecycle, defining from inception how our product looks, works, and feels and delivering this vision to clients.

  • Drive and initiate progress (often cross-functional) on many concurrent and complex projects at various points in the development lifecycle.

  • Manage our product pipeline and backlog

  • Create product requirements and product specifications

  • Help foster better outcomes for our clients by deeply understanding our value proposition and helping tracking our product’s uptake and efficacy over time for different client segments.

What We Value

  • Highly motivated problem solvers

  • Passion for building exceptional products (SaaS portal for desktop and iOS mobile app)

  • Interest in developing a career in sell-side research supporting one of the largest FX trading businesses in the world

Education & Preferred Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience and MBA or advanced degree in quantitative field preferred

  • Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally

  • Experience developing and deploying digital products

  • Numeracy and fluency in programming concepts (e.g. effectively interface with our quants and engineers)

  • Understanding of financial markets a plus

About State Street

What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary by location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans, among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Programs to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Discover more at StateStreet.com/careers

Salary Range:

$200,000 - $200,000 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.