Product Owner / Analyst - Vice President
Job Description
Lead product strategy and delivery for State Street Middle Office Cash Services as a VP-level Product Owner / Analyst in Boston.
Responsibilities
- Conduct market research to surface emerging trends, customer needs, and competitive dynamics; translate insights into innovative product ideas and concepts for Alpha cash service
- Build partnerships across Sales, Operations, Technology, cash service product implementation, other product development service families, and end-to-end (E2E) architecture teams to coordinate cross-functional solutions aligned to client and business goals
- Serve as a liaison between business and technology teams to support product demand opportunities within overall product strategy and development
- Apply strong front-to-back knowledge of Investment management / Investment services, with a focus on user digital experience
- Partner with business and technology stakeholders to connect business goals and strategies to the data and technology investments needed to achieve them
- Communicate recommendations to management and senior Alpha business leaders using effective written and oral communication
- Support pricing strategies and product policies
Requirements
- 12+ years of relevant experience; strategic thinker with strong business analysis and planning skills and “big picture” understanding
- Create business process flows and define business problems, solutions, and design using appropriate tools
- Demonstrated experience with business requirements analysis to meet critical business needs, including driving tasks to completion
- Experience designing and optimizing user experience across interfaces to maximize engagement and adoption
- Strong time management and organization skills with ability to manage multiple competing priorities
- Creative and strategic approach focused on outcomes; ability to write features/requirements
- Product Owner experience delivering using Agile methodologies
- Proven experience in financial services, including a good understanding of State Street businesses
- Knowledge of Operations processes and procedures, with an ability to learn quickly
- Excellent interpersonal skills plus communication, facilitation, presentation, and negotiation abilities
- Proficiency with MS Office products, including MS Access and Visio, plus Jira and Confluence, and PowerPoint
- Demonstrated excellence in business writing, creating business process flow diagrams, comparing current and future processes, and communicating effectively
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, MIS, Information Technology, or a related field of study
Technologies
- MS Office
- MS Access
- Visio
- Jira
- Confluence
- PowerPoint
Benefits
- Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
- Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
- Paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
- Access to the Employee Assistance Program
- Incentive compensation, eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
- Eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
Location: Boston, MA (onsite)
Salary: USD 110,000 - 188,750 per year
Position: VP – Cash Product Analyst