Business Analysis - Product Owner, AVP

Overview

Assistant Vice President, Product Manager role to help drive the next generation of State Street Alpha's Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform services, owning requirements and delivery for capability areas such as entity and identifier resolution, reference data management, extensible data models and release management.

What you'll do

• Own one or more EDM platform service capabilities, such as entity and identifier resolution or reference data management, from requirements through delivery.
• Partner with the product lead to shape and communicate the roadmap for your capability areas to internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead requirements definition, including epics, user stories and acceptance criteria, and keep features aligned with business objectives.
• Define configurable matching and resolution rules, data mappings and reference data standards across securities, issuers, accounts and related domains.
• Contribute to data model extensibility and release readiness requirements so clients can adopt new capabilities with minimal disruption.
• Lead client calls and workshops to gather insights and validate requirements that drive product decisions.
• Prioritize competing needs and manage trade-offs, dependencies and risks across engineering, architecture and client delivery teams.
• Facilitate design reviews and working sessions, and guide the user acceptance testing approach for your capability areas.
• Track delivery progress and report status, risks and outcomes to product leadership.
• Guide business analysts and junior product team members on requirements quality and domain knowledge.

What you'll need

• Minimum 12+ years of combined experience in product management or business analysis for software products, ideally in Capital Markets & Financial Services, Enterprise SaaS.
• Enterprise data management experience, including exposure to security master, entity resolution, identifier cross-referencing or reference data.
• Strong domain knowledge of financial markets and the investment lifecycle, including securities, issuers, pricing, portfolios and transactions.
• Proven ability to write high-quality requirements and lead requirements gathering with business and technical stakeholders.
• Working understanding of cloud-native, API-driven and multi-tenant architectures.
• Experience with Agile delivery and tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Polished communication skills and the credibility to engage senior stakeholders and clients.
• Ability to work as part of a global, distributed organization.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance or a related field.

Nice to have

• SQL and data analysis skills.
• Familiarity with market data providers (e.g., Bloomberg, Refinitiv, ICE, MSCI).
• Progress toward CFA or CAIA.
• Experience with investment management platforms such as Charles River IMS.