TradeAgent Equities Product Director

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs.

Our people are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference.

As part of the effort to launch new products and services within the new Post Trade Division, LSEG is seeking to hire a Product Director, based in London, to develop and implement new services within the existing Equities OTC business. The ideal candidate will have detailed Equities OTC derivatives knowledge, product ownership and change management experience and should be familiar and experienced delivering within Agile frameworks.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Contribute to product strategy for the Equities business, initially focusing on fund level allocation processes, including customer engagement, solution design, roadmap planning in collaboration with other senior stakeholders and the Business Leads.
• Drives and maintains product strategy and design for fund level allocation service for equity derivative allocations as part of wider Equity TradeAgent strategy.
• Contributes to the vision and devising business plans for budgetary approval and product roadmaps with business leads.
• Contributes to project delivery teams, providing direction on scope, approach and go-to-market tactics.
• Develops a client training plan for product workflows.
• Conducts research on market evolution, client requirements and strategies.
• Works closely across divisions to market and manage new products.
• Responsible to help develop, mentor and coach colleagues to enhance the overall capability in the business and fostering the talent within the function.

Crucial experience and skills required:

• Detailed understanding and experience of OTC equity derivatives market, market infrastructure & contract life-cycle.
• Detailed knowledge of fund level allocation workflows.
• Understanding of key market integrations; FIX, JSON, FPML, SFTP.
• Experience of how to create models that can successfully scale to handle significant data sets and evolve with client needs.
• Experience of implementing data management services that can transform high-volume of bespoke data in a sustainable method.
• Selects between two or more alternatives proficiently by gathering information to reach the best outcome in the shortest amount of time.
• Defines a problem and evaluates and identifies the best solution to overcome the problem.
• Builds trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to understand their drivers and negotiate positive outcomes.
• Has experience of taking Products through their development lifecycle from idea generation to bringing a product to market.
• Interacts well with others, quickly establishing rapport building positive relationships and networks within existing TradeAgent Equities team.
• Remaining up to date in the marketplace we operate in, gathering data on competitors and analyses their prices, sales, and method of marketing and distribution.
• For all the participant types that operate in the Equities business has a knowledge of their organization structure, business strategy and challenges, product/service offerings, key leaders and industry.
• Has a broad, big-picture view of the organisation and its mission to innovate through analysis of issues and trends and how these link to responsibilities, capabilities and potential of the organisation.
• Directs and leads others, coordinating activities and providing encouragement and inspiration to help others succeed.
• Trains, develops and mentors colleagues to maximise their potential, develop their skills, and improve their performance.
• Demonstrates the discipline of planning, organising and managing resources and activities to achieve specified outcomes within a clearly defined timeframe and standards.
• Identifies what needs to be done and takes appropriate action without waiting to be asked; is a self-starter.

Ideal Experience:

• Significant experience in Global fund level allocations processes, with understanding of data flows, key risks and stakeholder priorities.
• Experience in building a successful network across swap providers, hedge funds and asset managers.
• Leadership roles in Operations or middle-office area, institutional investment manager, clearing organisation, or Fintech.
• Delivery of significant programs of work to both internal and external clients.
• Understanding of existing other Post Trade OTC trade processes including relevant market infrastructure and OTC Equity Derivatives are especially relevant.

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you. LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.