Index Research Technology - Product Owner

Company: JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Location: New York
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

This is an exciting opportunity to be our first Product Owner in the team building solutions for JP Morgan Global Index Research Group (GIRG). Our business generates over $50M in revenue each year by developing industry-leading Fixed Income indices and benchmarks and we're looking for someone to help play a key role in our transformation to a product-centric organization. If you're passionate about building the right technology products in the right way then this role could be perfect for you.

What Skills & Experience Are We Looking For?

• Identifying internal customer needs by building relationships with stakeholders and users
• Managing project partners and facilitating technical and functional conversations at all levels of the organization
• Shaping and managing the product backlog and ensuring the team consistently deliver against established measures of success
• Using an adaptable set of approaches (e.g. user journeys & story maps) to gather ideas and requirements for projects and organize them into an evolutionary roadmap
• Creating a product vision for our teams to follow and help them plan development in a self-organized fashion
• Validating and testing ideas through frequent feedback loops to ensure development teams' priorities are aligned to have the biggest impact
• Creating and maintaining the product's definitions including the use of customer-facing SLO & SLAs
• Refining high level requirements, including the definition of acceptance criteria, into deliverables to facilitate ideation at depth within the Product Backlog Review

How Can You Stand Out?

• Acting as an Agile subject matter expert who can be a role model, evangelist and visionary in how to develop modern software
• Demonstrating strong knowledge of product strategy development
• Showing strong interpersonal skills, apply empathy for both the business needs and the engineering complexity for the problems we solve

What Experience Do You Need for This Role?

• Extensive experience of large-scale technology projects
• Extensive experience acting as a Product Owner across multiple and different product lifecycles

What Experience Would Really Help You in This Role?

• Financial Services (particularly in Fixed Income markets)
• Leading agile transformation projects
• Experience as a software engineer

What's Important to Our Team?

We are a fast-paced, high-energy, diverse team based in London, New York, Mumbai, and Buenos Aires. Innovation, experimentation and continual improvement are core parts of our culture as we design, build and test high quality software using Agile practices. We believe strongly in the value of diverse representation and you'll get to experience this on a day-to-day basis working with colleagues across time zones, teams and backgrounds to solve complex problems for our clients. Every day is different and we strive to create a supportive environment where you'll be able to grow and develop your skills as a technologist to maximize your potential.

About J.P. Morgan Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB)

J.P.Morgan's Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) is a global leader across banking, markets and investor services. The world's most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company.

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