Asset Management, Product Director, Vice President

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Job Description

The Investment Platform team was created in 2019 and is tasked with driving the vision and roadmap for a common technology platform to support our investors in generating insights and translating them into client portfolios. The team engages a broad community of investors with the objective of building the systems that can enable them and their teams to deliver exceptional outcomes. In direct collaboration with a team of technologists and user experience designers, you will be part of a highly visible team that has direct impact on the execution of our product roadmap and vision.

Job responsibilities:

• Support the Fixed Income Portfolio Management area product owner in user research, analysis and day to day management of the product.
• Conduct product discovery for selected features or initiatives and understand and document user needs in the form of user stories.
• Ensure representation of a wide range of users in the design of features or initiatives, often by facilitating user forums or workshops.
• Work with a team of developers and UX designers in refining features and initiatives, including the definition of clear acceptance criteria, wireframes and user validation.
• Support the product owner in prioritizing the backlog, clearly articulating the value of the initiatives she or he is working on.
• Represent the enhancements of the product to users and ensure adoption of new features and of the product overall.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• 5+ years of experience in the financial services industry, ideally with focus on fixed income markets.
• Strong interest in technology and how technology can drive efficient processes.
• Product-oriented mindset, with a focus on developing solutions that provide real user value.
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies
• Strong communicator that can listen to users and understand underlying issues and also articulate effectively proposed solutions to users and team members.
• Strong collaborator who can reconcile different user needs and priorities and work with a cross-functional team.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Experience with frequently used tools in software product development such as Jira
• Multi lingual would be advantageous

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. 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. 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. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.