Senior Product Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Senior product liaison for US based clients, exchanges, regulators and industry bodies. 
• Gather and document client business requirements and forthcoming US exchange and regulatory initiatives, liaising with the XTP Product Owner and the development team to schedule the related enhancements.
• Working within the Product Management team, utilising your industry experience you will assist in the functional evolution of ION’s Cleared Derivatives offering (front, middle and back), with focus on XTP’s post-trade suite.
• Manage the US post-trade product management team, overseeing timely delivery of assigned tasks, ensuring their quality standards are met as expected. Mentor the team to ensure their professional growth, recognising talent and promoting longer term career potential within ION Cleared Derivatives.
• Leading XTP Implementation Analysis engagements, attending client workshops and documenting requirements across the ION solutions in scope
• Take ownership of a specific product line, function or asset class (e.g. Cleared OTC) within the Cleared Derivatives Product Management team, immediately or over time, depending on your specific product knowledge and experience
• Regularly attend major US cleared derivatives industry conferences 
• Participate in FIA-led initiatives and attend FIA working groups and committees as ION’s US cleared derivatives representative. 
• Work with development teams to ensure solutions meet business requirements, including testing new functionality
• Effectively communicate to all interested parties on new initiatives and updates on existing initiatives and services
• Support the Technical Account Management and Commercial Account Management teams in customer meetings and calls as a subject matter expert
• Liaising with the Sales team, provide assistance for the following activities: 
• Preparation of demos and related client meetings, attending as an industry subject matter expert (SME)
• Provision of questionnaire responses and any material required for submission of RFP bids within the timelines indicated by clients
• General pre-sales activities including preparation of commercial proposals and related supporting materials

Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• Required
• Degree educated
• 10+ years working in finance, or financial technology at a bank/FCM, software vendor, or exchange, with understanding of global derivatives markets
• Knowledge of the exchange traded derivatives (ETD) clearing and settlement process
• Ability to analyze customers’ business problems, specifying business requirements and their solution at a functional level, using an agile approach 
• Ability to communicate confidently and concisely (both oral and written) using specialist business acumen
• Excellent team management skills
• Strong technical awareness
• Preferred
• Direct knowledge of vendor post-trade platforms (including risk-management) or in-house developed solutions.
• Direct knowledge of cleared OTC post-trade life cycle from clearing to settlement, including reporting (IRS, CDS, FX NDF products).
• Direct experience with US regulatory framework and reporting requirements for cleared derivatives
• Direct experience with US tax regulatory framework and tax reporting requirements
• Experience of the software development lifecycle, including agile methods, SCRUM, definition of use cases, knowledge of JIRA as the related supporting tool.
• Experience writing business requirements and product specifications, with a background in Business Analysis or Product Management