Realign LLC is hiring a Product Owner for an onsite role in Jersey City, NJ focused on capital markets. In this position, you will shape the product vision and ensure delivery across front, middle, and back-office workflows, balancing business value with regulatory and risk requirements.
Role focus
You will own the end-to-end product direction, including the product vision, roadmap, backlog, and delivery execution for capital markets capabilities. The work requires strong domain knowledge, a clear understanding of regulatory expectations, and technical fluency to collaborate effectively with technology teams.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the product vision aligned with business objectives.
- Understand front-office, middle-office, and back-office workflows.
- Translate Capital Markets business needs into product roadmaps.
- Prioritize features that support revenue, efficiency, risk reduction, and regulatory compliance.
- Own and prioritize the product backlog.
- Write and maintain epics, features, and user stories.
- Define acceptance criteria.
- Participate in Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
- Make prioritization decisions based on business value and risk.
- Work closely with Traders, Sales teams, Risk teams, Compliance teams, Operations, Technology teams, and Senior business executives.
- Ensure product features comply with internal control and regulatory standards.
- Gather business requirements and analyze gaps in current processes.
- Define KPIs and success metrics, and measure adoption, productivity improvements, and business outcomes.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and validate business outcomes before production releases.
- Approve releases from a business perspective.
- Coordinate production rollouts and stakeholder communication.
Capital markets domain leadership
You must have strong knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Equities, Fixed Income, FX (Foreign Exchange), Derivatives, Prime Brokerage, Trade Lifecycle, Clearing & Settlement, Syndication & New Issue Processing, and Electronic Trading Platforms. Knowledge of Primary Markets, Syndication, Book Building, and related Fixed Income and Equities workflows is particularly valuable in capital markets environments.
Regulatory and risk management
The role requires understanding of market regulations, operational risk, data governance, audit requirements, model risk controls, and regulatory reporting obligations. You will ensure product features comply with internal control and regulatory standards.
Data and technology understanding
A modern capital markets PO is expected to understand: APIs, cloud platforms, data lakes, AI/ML use cases, RAG and GenAI solutions, real-time event processing, FIX Protocol, and Kafka. The role also involves understanding trade messaging flows. Hands-on coding is not required, but strong technical fluency is necessary to engage effectively with engineering teams.
Location
- Onsite: Jersey City, Pennington, NJ
Compensation
- Salary: USD 130,000 per year
