Product Director - Post Trade Technology - Executive Director in London

Ignite your passion for product innovation by leading customer-centric development, inspiring solutions, and shaping the future with your strategic vision and influence. As a Product Director in Post Trade Technology, you lead innovation through the development of products and features that delight customers. As a leader on the team, you leverage your advanced capabilities to challenge traditional approaches, remove barriers to success, and foster a culture of continuous innovation that helps inspire cross-functional teams create groundbreaking solutions that address customer needs.

Job responsibilities

• Oversees the product roadmap, vision, development, execution, risk management, and business growth targets.
• Leads the entire product life cycle through planning, execution, and future development by continuously adapting, developing new products and methodologies, managing risks, and achieving business targets like cost, features, reusability, and reliability to support growth.
• Coaches and mentors the product team on best practices, such as solution generation, market research, storyboarding, mind-mapping, prototyping methods, product adoption strategies, and product delivery, enabling them to effectively deliver on objectives.
• Owns product performance and is accountable for investing in enhancements to achieve business objectives.
• Monitors market trends, conducts competitive analysis, and identifies opportunities for product differentiation.
• Drives definition & build out of controls in various Payments platforms supporting Equities & Prime businesses.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proven expertise in delivering products, projects, or technology applications.
• Extensive knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, and data analytics.
• Proven ability to influence the adoption of key product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management.
• Experienced in driving change within organizations and managing stakeholders across multiple functions.
• Experience of Product/Program managing large scale programs involving mission critical systems supporting large volumes of trades/cash flows.
• Possesses excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at various levels within the organization, effectively guiding group discussions and decision-making processes within the domain context.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a global team.
• Extensive experience leading complex platform delivery.
• Expertise and knowledge of Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira, Confluence.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Recognized thought leader within a related field.
• Program management experience in Control/Risk.
• Experience of working with Control/Risk teams.
• Previous experience of managing large scale payment applications.

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. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

Define the product roadmap, inspire a high-performing team, and monitor market trends to shape product innovations.