Product Owner

Skills

Conceptual and practical expertise in the functioning of Nasdaq’s markets. This includes insights into the competitive landscape and the ability to successfully communicate those factors to internal and external customers. Adept at independently navigating a matrix organization to identify partners and advance solutions through consensus building. Can respectfully challenge the standard methodologies of decision making to improve the organizations' effectiveness in exceeding customer demand. Effective communication – confident in speaking publicly in front of clients facilitating meetings and written communication including emails . Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the processes/challenges across customer segments and evaluates solutions from multiple perspectives to ensure the recommended plan of action is not only thoughtful to the customer needs but fully demonstrates the cross functional expertise across Teams and Divisions at Nasdaq. Considers rules regulations and time frames of core business as well as impact on end users when implementing new business practices products or solutions. Consistent track record of setting priorities and leading directly as well as indirectly a team to success through cross functional collaboration and thorough timeline management.

Description

Engage with diverse customer personas to understand, critically evaluate, and facilitate the development of solutions to their evolving business needs.
Collaborate with internal partners such as Marketing, Legal, Sales, and Engineering, to ensure the value proposition of products is clear, understood, and resonates with the intended target audience.
Adopt and apply Product Management methodologies such as Agile, and tools such as JIRA and Confluence to document, define, and lead projects from inception to launch.
Recognize new business opportunities and lead the build of products/services, technologies, and/or market plans to capitalize on them.
Act as a funnel for product development ideas and build consensus with key people to realize new commercial opportunities.
Identify potential risks to achieving project objective and mitigate risk by implementing procedures, spotting errors, and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
Perform analyses and prepare forecasts and recommendations in the areas of product preferences, sales coverage, market penetration, market practices and sales trends. Provides timely and accurate information and status updates to Direct and Senior Leadership.
Partner with Sales and Support Teams across Nasdaq to ensure the highest quality customer service expectations are exceeded on a consistent basis.
Accept emerging technologies such as Cloud API's, WebSocket’s etc. to accelerate the evolution of traditional Markets to the Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Degree qualified in Computer Science, Business/Finance or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Familiar with Agile Approach to Product Development and tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• Experience Required:
• At least 6 years Financial Services, Market Data, Product Management, or related field