Technical Product Manager

Overview

Technical Product Manager to shape and deliver technology solutions supporting Morningstar's Indexes applications and platforms, translating business needs into product requirements and scalable technology outcomes.

What you'll do

• Partner with business stakeholders, product leaders, and engineering teams to understand goals, user needs, operational challenges, and technology constraints.
• Define, prioritize, and maintain a well-structured product backlog for Indexes technology initiatives.
• Translate business objectives and user needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and functional specifications.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, discovery discussions, design reviews, sprint planning, and delivery checkpoints to ensure alignment across teams.
• Work closely with engineering and QA teams to deliver solutions that meet expectations for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, quality, timelines, and alignment with Indexes objectives.
• Support product demos, UAT coordination, release readiness, stakeholder communication, and adoption of delivered capabilities.
• Analyze workflows, identify process gaps, and recommend scalable product or platform improvements.
• Promote strong product discipline, clear prioritization, collaborative decision making, and continuous improvement across the team.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Business, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in product management, business analysis, technology delivery, or software solutions, preferably in financial services, capital markets, or a data-driven technology environment.
• Strong ability to translate business and operational needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and functional specifications.
• Solid understanding of Agile delivery practices, backlog management, sprint planning, stakeholder prioritization, and release coordination.
• Working knowledge of APIs, databases, data models, cloud platforms, and modern application architecture.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and/or data analysis tools to support requirement validation, issue triage, and product decision making.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand complex workflows, identify root causes, and recommend practical solutions.
• Excellent listening, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort discussing architecture, integrations, data quality, operational processes, and trade-offs with technical teams.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Athena, or Glue.
• Experience with product roadmaps, OKRs, success metrics, or value measurement.
• Familiarity with API design, microservices, data pipelines, or event-driven architecture.
• Experience using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, SQL editors, BI/reporting platforms, or workflow management systems.
• Familiarity with Python, data analysis, automation, or prototyping.
• Exposure to capital markets, indexes, equities, or related investment domains.

Details

• Hybrid work model: four days in-office each week in most locations.