Product Owner - OT New Initiatives
Company Description
MarketAxess is a FinTech company and component of the S&P 500. We are a leading provider of global fixed income trading platforms, data, and post-trade solutions.
The fixed-income markets represent an enormous global marketplace, where only a fraction of average daily trade volume occurs electronically. Believe it or not, most fixed-income trades are still executed via phone or blotter, providing us with a significant opportunity for disruption and future growth.
We believe this market is ripe for disruption and have created a proprietary electronic platform that connects the world’s most influential financial institutions to the world’s largest capital market. Since 2015, MarketAxess has grown from roughly 300 employees to approximately 700 with offices across seven countries and annual revenue has more than doubled. We’re excited about the growth opportunities ahead and have built a fast-paced, collaborative, environment where all employees are empowered to make a material impact. We hope you’ll come join us!
Job Description
The Open Trading Product Owner will lead high profile client projects designing, customizing, and enhancing fixed income trading and market data solutions for the fixed income trading desks of major financial services clients. The Product Owner will manage agile development projects; continuously reviewing the business needs, refining priorities, and outlining milestones and deliverables. In addition, the product owner will be responsible for gathering the client’s customization requirements and translating these into functional requirements specifications for the internal scrum team.
What You’ll Do
- Manage the analysis, design and development of the applications through interaction with internal developers and QA staff within and across scrum teams
- Supervise and advise the scrum team to meet software expectations
- Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
- Understand the client’s needs and work together with the scrum team to specify business and functional requirements
- Work closely with the team’s Product Manager to prioritize enhancements based on business value
- Communicate effectively with scrum team members to achieve project goals
- Train end users and client support staff on the operation of the applications
- Gather requirements and feedback from the client’s business users (traders) and technologists
- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
- Coordinate with other Product Owners and scrum teams for software builds and releases
What you Bring to the Table
- 2+ years’ experience as a product owner or similar capacity in the financial services industry
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Fixed income domain knowledge
- Knowledge of Agile principles and process
- Knowledge of Jira, Jira Align, MS Visio, Word, Excel, Photoshop/Ulead PhotoImpact (or equivalent graphics package for screenshots), and basic SQL queries
- Candidate must be articulate, and have excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to think broadly (across products and functions) and conceptualize practical solutions balancing user requirements with technical constraints
- Excellent attention to detail
- Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
Desired Skills
- Successful track record of developing products within deadlines
- FIX experience, specifically FIX for Fixed Income
- Familiarity with Bloomberg TOMS/AIM or the major fixed income ECNs (ALLQ, ICE TMC, ICE BondPoint, Tradeweb, MarketAxess)
- Experience working directly with traders on a desk
Additional Information
What’s In It For You?
In addition to working on cutting edge technology and in our culture of innovation, collaboration, and openness, we offer:
- Hybrid Environment: Flexibility matters! Our employees enjoy a mix of working in the office and from home
- Employer Provided Food: Free lunch is delivered for all employees when in the office. Offices are always stocked with free snacks and drinks.
- Paid time off: competitive PTO package including vacation days, sick leave, charity leave and parental leave
- 401(k): Dollar-for-dollar employer match up to $10K
- Health Insurance: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs
- Wellness Stipend: Up to $1K annually towards gym memberships, home office equipment and more
- Onsite Healthcare: Convenient access to world-class care through Mount Sinai at our Hudson Yards location
- Tuition Assistance and Professional Training: We want to empower your continued growth and development. On-demand learning, boot camps, and opportunities to attend conferences are available to all employees.
MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal and state law.