Senior Technical Product Manager – Financial Data Distribution

Requirements

• The ideal candidate will have experience in data distribution models, product management, and project delivery.
• A proven ability to liaise between clients, business, and technology teams.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, IT, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in software or data product management, with at least 3 years in technically complex, platform-oriented products.
• Strong understanding of modern index or analytics data distribution architectures, including APIs, event/batch delivery, entitlement models, and access controls.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior engineers and architects on design and tradeoff decisions.
• Experience defining API/FTP/Web distribution requirements (Desirable).
• Knowledge of the index business preferred (Desirable).
• Experience with agentic solution incorporation (Desirable).
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms and distribution, preferably GCP (Desirable).
• Familiarity with authentication, SFTP security, RESTful API design (Desirable).
• Experience providing functional leadership, mentoring, or coaching within a product or delivery organisation.
• Ability to lead transformation platform projects steering groups across the organization towards roadmap execution.
• Strong analytical skills and a passion for working with data to solve business challenges.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds (business, operations, IT).
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for outcomes, not just outputs.
• Pragmatic, goal-oriented, and problem-solving mindset with the ability to manage complex projects.
• Proficiency in English (both written and verbal).

What the job involves

• ISS STOXX is seeking a Product Manager – Index Data Distribution to join our Software Product Management team in STOXX.
• Lead the next generation of our index data distribution strategy and platform capabilities across entitlement, access control, and multi-channel delivery.
• This individual will drive product strategy end-to-end and act as the accountable interface between business outcomes and technical execution.
• Own the product vision, roadmap, and delivery outcomes for index data distribution.
• Define, own, and continuously evolve STOXX’s index data distribution product strategy and target architecture.
• Assess client needs, market trends, regulatory constraints, and internal platform capabilities to shape a multiyear, outcome-driven roadmap.
• Understand the future of data distribution by working across third-party platform distributors and directly with client distribution platforms.
• Lead structured product discovery and design sessions with clients, business, technology, and operations.
• Translate business and client needs into clear product requirements, technical specifications, and prioritised backlog items.
• Own product documentation including problem statements, solution options, tradeoffs, and decision rationale.
• Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria.
• Own backlog prioritisation based on client value, risk, technical dependencies, and strategic alignment.
• Define sprint goals, provide product direction to engineering teams, and coach junior Product Managers and Business Analysts as required.
• Define acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements (performance, resilience, security), and collaborate with QA to ensure production-ready delivery.
• Act as escalation point for complex delivery issues and make prioritisation tradeoffs to maintain momentum and quality.
• Follow progress and proactively address issues during sprints.
• Refine agile methodologies based on feedback.
• Primary senior product contact for client service, commercial, and operations teams on all index data distribution topics.
• Present roadmaps to leadership.
• Partner with commercial teams on pricing, packaging, and go-to-market strategy for data distribution products and channels.
• Contribute to governance forums, steering committees, and executive updates with clear data-driven insights.
• Define and monitor KPIs for availability, latency, data quality, entitlement accuracy, and client satisfaction.
• Drive automation, resilience, and observability improvements across distribution pipelines.
• Reduce distribution errors and enhance client experience.