Risk Associate

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and growing team in a fast paced and challenging area? This is a unique opportunity for you to work in our team to partner with the Business to provide a comprehensive view.

As a Risk Associate - Product within the Wholesale Credit Risk Management team, you are at the center of keeping JPMorgan Chase strong and resilient. You help the firm grow its business in a responsible way by anticipating new and emerging risks and using your expert judgement to solve real-world challenges that impact our company, customers, and communities. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo, and striving to be best-in-class. In this role, you will be a key member of the Product Team within Wholesale Credit Risk. You will collaborate with technology partners as well other Product Teams in the program that are developing the underlying components that power the platform, to ensure they meet users' needs and those that offer the greatest value are prioritized.

Job Responsibilities

• Gather clear requirements and write user stories/acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts and key stakeholders to understand uses cases and pain points as well as trends in the marketplace
• Integrate usability studies, research, and market analysis into product requirements and develop user journeys and other artifacts that help communicate, and rally support for, intuitive user experience which best meets the needs of the Product’s users
• Identify critical dependencies/issues and present recommendations for resolution
• Provide product demos and conduct product review and feedback sessions with key stakeholders; ensure feedback is incorporated into roadmap so deliverables meet business needs
• Collaborate closely with the Product and Technology teams building the core components that enable critical underlying functionality of the Product
• Ensure new features are implemented according to specifications, released on schedule, and issues are remediated in a timely manner

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5+ years of experience in the financial services or fin-tech industry
• 3+ years of relevant work experience in Product Management / Development or related capacity 
• Strong, clear, and concise written and verbal communication with ability to edit and prepare executive level communications
• Ability to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong partnerships
• Intellectual curiosity with a proven ability to learn quickly and high degree of initiative, self-direction, and ability to work well under pressure
• Advanced knowledge of the Product Development Lifecycle with proven ability to lead Product Lifecycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition and go to market
• Sound knowledge of technology architecture, APIs, design, and data analytics
• Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills
• Experience within large Financial Services firms and basic level of domain knowledge in Credit Risk
• Experience working with Technology and UX Design colleagues and discussing technical designs and Certified Agile Practitioner (CSP) or Certified Scrum Master (CSM)