Our organization

The Commercial & Investment Bank, Markets Athena Platform technology team is responsible for building digital products that deliver best in class solutions for trade and risk management consistently across JPMorgan’s Markets businesses.  Our products range from Core platform capabilities including distributed object storage, data streaming and an integrated development environment to business components including trade, risk, market data and reference data services and UI frameworks.  Our team consists of Product Managers, Delivery Leads and Developers.  The team is thoughtful in balancing due diligence with speed to market and creativity with discipline to produce best-in-class, efficient, thoughtful digital solutions for our clients.

Job description

As a Product Owner in the Athena Platform Core team, you’ll partner with Athena Platform teams, line-of-business engineers, and Quantitative Research developers to define our product strategy and roadmap. You will ensure that the platform meets business needs across Markets and beyond through understanding our product capabilities and how businesses use them.  Using your software engineering experience, you will prioritise technical features to help solve business problems in a dynamic and fast-changing environment.

Our culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, and problem solving is essential to our success.  We bring people together with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We support teamwork, thinking big, and taking risks in a blame-free environment.  We promote self-direction to work on relevant projects, while building an environment that provides support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.  We're excited to see what you'll bring to our team.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other Product Owners and Engineering and Quantitative Research teams to define and prioritize technical product features and enhancements for the Athena Platform Core products.
• Manage the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder needs.
• Lead the development and delivery of platform capabilities, to clearly defined Objectives and Key Results, using automated KPIs to measure success.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including other Product Managers, Delivery Leads, and developers, to ensure timely and efficient delivery of digital solutions.
• Balance due diligence with speed to market, and creativity with discipline, to produce efficient and thoughtful digital solutions for our clients.
• Engage with stakeholders to gather feedback and continuously improve product offerings.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
• Software engineering experience writing object-oriented code.
• Experience working in a financial markets company such as an investment bank.
• Conversant with securities and financial derivatives products in at least one of the following asset classes: credit, equities, rates, foreign exchange, commodities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Sound judgement, the ability to make decisions about what to prioritise and what to not prioritise.
• Experience as a Product Owner
• Hands-on approach and an ability to be self-sufficient in processing data.
• Self-driven with a curiosity to learn and improve.