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Working with the Fixed Income Institutional and Retail Trading Technology Product Team, this role is responsible for leading all aspects of and guiding strategic product enhancements for the Fixed Income Trading product line. You will be responsible for developing product roadmaps, liaising with our engineering teams, and participating in the end-to-end product management lifecycle from concept to launch. You will work cross-functionally with heads of our Fixed Income Trading desks, Trading Operations, Compliance/Supervision, Risk, and Engineers to ensure product releases address key opportunities and deficiencies. You will gather and prioritize product and client requirements and use data-driven analysis to align and influence the prioritization of product features to deliver tangible outcomes with clear business impact.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

+ Supports management for the entire trading product line life cycle from tactical activities to strategic planning.

+ Supports the trade desk(s) by identifying and resolving technology issues quickly and efficiently.

+ Details the product development requirements and other functions to support the project team.

+ Takes high-level requirements and converts them into multi-phase product roadmaps, that optimize business needs for the development teams to build solutions.

+ Acts as agent for the business unit(s) to ensure their needs are prioritized and addressed.

+ Helps the business unit(s) to clearly articulate requirements.

+ Oversees detailed cost/benefit and ROI analysis.

+ Work with our vendor applications on enhancements, releases and roadmaps to support business needs and/or integrate within our ecosystem of fixed income applications

+ Supports product release planning processes.

+ Evaluates requests for systems modifications.

+ Recommends efficient methods to automate processes and create efficiencies across technical processes.

+ Performs detailed tradeoff analysis to evaluate alternatives in cases where additional in-house resources are not available.

+ Conducts broad market, industry, and competitive analyses to define features and functionality. May help to plan, assign, monitor, review, evaluate and lead the work of others.

+ Assists with interviewing, onboarding, and training new hires

+ Performs other duties and responsibilities as needed.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

+ Economics, structures and workflows of the Capital Markets trading business unit.

+ Concepts, practices, and procedures of the Raymond James Software Development Life Cycle.

+ Application management.

+ Product management and product development lifecycles.

+ Understanding of product strategy development and road mapping tools.

+ Advanced principles of finance and banking.

Skill in:

+ Technical skill to recommend efficient methods for automating processes, integrating software and providing reports to the business unit(s).

+ Establishing working relationships with the business unit(s) represented.

+ Performing market research, developing product specifications and incorporating requirements into planning processes.

+ Managing the dissemination of marketing and product communications.

+ Change management.

Ability to:

+ Communicate strategic vision, execution plans, and status with key collaborators and senior management.

+ Conduct product demonstrations and product training.

+ Prioritize, determine tasks and resources, schedule, and leverage resources to meet deadlines.

+ Develop solutions that address meaningful issues for the business unit(s) represented.

+ Clearly articulate the business unit(s)’ priorities, opportunities and issues.

+ Take action to meet traders’ needs and concerns.

+ Communicate time frames, gather appropriate information, and evaluate results.

+ Leverage diverse resources, think expansively, and evaluate multiple solutions while targeting important areas for innovation.

+ Speak clearly and concisely, and convey information effectively through oral or written communications.

Educational/Previous Experience Requirements:

+ Bachelor's Degree (B.A.) in Business, Finance, or related discipline(s) with a minimum of five (5) years of experience in Financial Services or managing bank products through the full product life cycle.

~or~

+ Any equivalent combination of experience, education and/or training approved by Human Resources.

Licenses/Certifications:

+ None required.