Product Manager - Reference Data Product Management

Job Purpose

The Product Manager, Reference Data Product Management joins a dynamic team exposed to and challenged with driving revenue growth, contributing to the development of innovative products, and enhancing existing data assets. We are looking for talented and passionate Product Manager to help drive forward product development with a background in reference data, entity data, and corporate actions. You should have experience building, enhancing, or supporting products related to reference data.

Responsibilities

• Idea generation, technical development, implementation and launch of innovative products.
• Be the lead contributor towards the design and implementation of new business initiatives (e.g., new products).
• Operationally autonomous.
• Ownership of content sets. 
• Take a data-driven approach to product enhancements, identifying opportunity areas and contributing to the Product roadmap, prioritizing work to deliver against key areas of focus.
• Participate in both formulating the business strategy as well as channeling into a clearly defined direction and product strategy.
• Work with other product and development leaders to ensure alignment with their roadmaps and delivery.
• Serve a critical role in the successful integration and subsequent product buildout of strategic company acquisitions.
• Participate in cross-functional teams (e.g. Product, Business Analysis, Software Engineering) in the development of business requirements to meet customer needs.
• Collaborate with target market representatives, customers, and partners to create powerful and revenue generating solutions for the marketplace.
• Expertise in business requirements writing. Requires extensive knowledge of all areas of the business.
• Must be well versed in industry and company focused initiatives and understand how that content could be utilized within reference data products.
• Understand the business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and help recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
• Liaise with the Stakeholders in managing, defining, prioritizing, planning, and executing the vision for our applications targeting our core Data Services customers.
• Identify and communicate project risks and issues.
• Ability to operate in a multi-tasking and deadline driven team environment.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning by leveraging the learning & development curriculum to augment existing knowledge, skills, and experiences.
• Maximize efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm.

Knowledge and Experience                                                                                               

• Experience in the financial services industry.
• Experience querying / retrieving data from structured databases (SQL/Oracle. Python).
• AI experience to research and present new ideas.
• Excellent ability to communicate technical ideas and concepts to colleagues outside the domain.
• Strong collaboration skills – ability to navigate cross functional teams to deliver on shared objectives.
• Excellent communication and listening skills with an ability to develop a clear message for senior management and craft the story around it.
• Must have the ability to develop strong relationships with colleagues at all levels of the organization.
• Organized and structured with excellent attention to detail.
• Acute understanding of how data is stored and flows through systems and databases.
• Skilled in excel to analyze data, identify trends, and come to conclusions.
• Understanding of how to identify and develop product enhancements.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills - solid hands-on experience of functional analysis, with extensive experience translating business requirements into functional, design and test documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills - ability to work with the client/user community to translate their requirements, however expressed, into development materials and conversely present development materials to client/users in a comprehensible way.
• Must be able to supervise, organize, prioritize workload and work on numerous projects/tasks at one time.
• Working knowledge, and ideally hands on experience, of the development life cycle, covering basic design, testing cycles from unit to acceptance testing, implementation, and post release bug/issue fixes.
• Familiarity with a range of product interfaces (XML/JSON Files, APIs, Front-End Viewers).
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Bachelor’s degree is a minimum.
• English language proficiency.

EU Base Salary Range 

The expected base salary for this role is between 30,000 - 45,000 EUR. The base salary range does not include Intercontinental Exchange’s incentive compensation.  While we provide this range as general guidance, at ICE we compensate employees based on objective and gender-neutral criteria including skillset, qualifications and experience of the individual. Regular full-time ICE employees are eligible for a suite of competitive employee benefits, including healthcare coverage.