Product Owner — Reference and Market Data

About the role

What you'll do

• Own, maintain, prioritize, and continuously refine the product backlog in alignment with product strategy, customer needs, business priorities, and roadmap commitments.
• Partner with the Product Manager to define product vision, strategic objectives, roadmap themes, market opportunities, and success measures.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, QA, UX, Data, Architecture, and Operations teams to groom features, clarify requirements, resolve dependencies, and support timely delivery.
• Translate business objectives and complex financial-market requirements into epics, features, user stories, process flows, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, story elaboration, sprint reviews, product demonstrations, and stakeholder feedback sessions.
• Ensure user stories are ready for development by defining functional behavior, data attributes, validation rules, exception handling, dependencies, and testable acceptance criteria.
• Make day-to-day prioritization decisions by balancing customer value, market needs, regulatory requirements, operational risk, technical dependencies, delivery capacity, and time-to-market considerations.
• Serve as the primary business and functional point of contact for the Scrum team, providing timely clarification and decisions throughout the development lifecycle.
• Partner with stakeholders to validate delivered functionality, incorporate feedback, and confirm release readiness.
• Identify and manage product, data, process, and dependency risks; drive appropriate resolution and escalation.
• Support release planning, stakeholder communications, product documentation, training, and change-management activities.
• Define and monitor product success measures, including adoption, data quality, user satisfaction, delivery predictability, operational efficiency, and realized business value.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Technology, Economics, or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience of 7 to 12 years will be considered.
• Demonstrated experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Manager, or similar role supporting financial technology, market data, investment-management, or enterprise financial products.
• Prior experience in the financial technology sector, with a strong understanding of financial-services workflows, data usage, and client needs.
• Strong domain knowledge of financial markets, investment products, and reference data, including instrument, issuer, entity, pricing, corporate actions, classifications, identifiers, symbology, and security hierarchies.
• Working knowledge of financial data from major industry vendors, including Bloomberg, LSEG Data & Analytics (formerly Refinitiv), S&P Global Market Intelligence/Markit, FactSet, and ICE Data Services.
• Strong understanding of multiple asset classes, including Equities, Fixed Income, listed and over-the-counter Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps, Credit Indices, Total Return Swaps, and other investment products.
• Knowledge of reference-data sourcing, vendor data mapping, normalization, enrichment, data lineage, reconciliation, golden-source practices, and data-quality controls.
• Ability to understand financial instrument lifecycles and the downstream impact of data changes across trading, risk, operations, reporting, compliance, and client-facing workflows.
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile delivery environments, including Scrum ceremonies, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.
• Hands-on experience using Jira to create and manage epics, features, user stories, defects, workflows, dashboards, reports, and product backlogs.
• Ability to write clear, concise, and unambiguous user stories with detailed, testable acceptance criteria.
• Experience collaborating with technical teams and working knowledge of software-delivery concepts, including APIs, data integrations, system dependencies, testing, and production releases.