Technical Product Manager - Backend

As a Technical Product Manager at J.P Morgan Personal Investing, you will take ownership of an internal operations domain, responsible for core functionality such as payments, client money and assets reconciliation, trading operations, customer PII management or tax wrapper management.  You will also manage key 3rd party stakeholders such as our integration partners and strategic B2B clients.

You will have a development team around you to ensure you are able to operate autonomously to define and deliver your roadmap. 

You will work in a highly collaborative way within the Product team and across the organisation to successfully deliver strategically aligned product development whilst aiming to exceed your set KPIs.

The role would be well suited a Product Manager from a technical background who also wants to gain exposure to the more commercial aspects of traditional product management.

Job Responsibilities:

• Become the go-to person for your domain, assuming a highly visible role within the company as the subject matter expert

• Communicate complex concepts to a variety of stakeholders with varying levels of detail 

• Define and manage a highly organised roadmap and supporting backlog to ensure your team is delivering products that will most positively impact customers and the business

• Be passionate about the Product Development process, always striving to improve how products are built to ensure teams operate to their maximum effectiveness and efficiency

• Promote innovation in product design, always being mindful of, and working within, the framework of a strong financial compliance regime

• Take ultimate responsibility for product decisions, and be prepared to justify those decisions to all levels in the business

• Support and motivate the Engineering teams with clear and achievable deliverables with a strong technical aptitude to be able to challenge engineering decisisons.

• Run assigned agile teams through iterative Discovery and Delivery sprint cycles

• Participate in agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, planning meetings, retrospectives

• Balance business and technical objectives and translate these as clear priorities for the Engineering team 

• Be the glue among departments and create shared understanding by translating ideas & concepts into technical or layman’s terms

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical/ numerical discipline

• Product Management experience preferably gained within Financial Services, ideally within wealth or asset management

• Financial services, Weatlh management, FinTech or WealthTech experience

• Understanding of trading operations in a wealth management setting

• Track record of successful delivery of complex projects (including working knowledge of Scrum)

• Basic troubleshooting skills such as, reviewing log files, writing basic SQL queries

• Commercial acumen to help build strong business cases that define the product’s success criteria.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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