Director, Product Management (Merrimack)
Job Description Are you looking to join a highly collaborative, fast‑paced organization where you can help shape the future of institutional trading and drive transformative business solutions? Fixed Income remains one of the most critical and innovative segments of global financial markets. Our Bond Trading Technology organization is building the next generation of trading capabilities that support multiple desks across the Fixed Income business. We are seeking a Director of Product Management who is energized by the complexities of trading technology, passionate about modern market structure, and motivated by the opportunity to influence a platform used by traders, quants, and strategists across the enterprise. As Director, Product Management you will blend your passion for product leadership and fixed‑income market expertise to deliver meaningful value for our traders and cross‑company partners. You will serve as the end‑to‑end owner of delivery teams’ culture, strategy, and execution, partner with technology, trading, and operations leaders, shape the product roadmap, and align resources to the highest‑value opportunities. You will define and refine quarterly and annual missions, lead focused, empowered teams, and steward the product backlog to ensure clarity on priorities and execution. You are committed to elevating your expertise in trading technology and fixed‑income markets and bringing leading‑edge thinking, modern practices, and a strong strategic voice to the role. The Value You Deliver Solutions and capabilities that progress the Bond Trading product/platform vision, meet partner needs, and address customer challenges Defining, refining, and communicating the roadmap, mission, and plans for assigned delivery teams, products, and initiatives Handling partner expectations and continuously ensuring alignment on all fronts Understanding, anticipating, and discovering through ongoing interaction with partners to serve as their voice and guide execution of the team Making informed prioritization and trade‑off decisions to balance strategic and tactical solutions, return on investment, and delivery timeframes Defining, evaluating, and communicating product and delivery results against goals and acceptance criteria Building an empowered team that leverages proven frameworks and standard processes to deliver excellence and exceptional quality Providing candid feedback and solutions‑oriented mentality to identify and address organizational and product risks, issues, and challenges Supporting product to ensure high customer satisfaction and production stability Measuring efficacy and innovating processes and tools to deliver more effective and efficient results for business, technology, and team Collaborating and coordinating with engineering leaders, program/project leads, and delivery team members to build capacity and enable learning Building collaboration by identifying and conveying common interests across other delivery teams and Fixed Income Technology products Being a role model and daily mentor for a team of systems analysts on analysis processes, opportunities, and professional development The Skills and Expertise You Bring Bachelor's degree (or above) in a technology‑related field 8 years of experience in business/systems analysis, product ownership, and/or product management with at least 4 years in a product manager/delivery team leader capacity Excellent communication, organization, planning, and presentation skills Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining large, complex, dynamic products and solutions Experience with Agile, Jira, and Jira Align Investment management experience preferred; fixed‑income trading experience a plus Committed to developing a balance of business domain knowledge and technology skills to fully appreciate customer and product needs Data‑focused approach, regularly leveraging colleagues’ expertise to understand requirements, propose solutions, and measure results Establishing unquestioning relationships across stakeholders to deliver outcomes Articulating the key user and customer benefits of bond trading capabilities, functions, and features to support fixed‑income business success Developing product strategy, roadmap, and plans for development, delivery, and support Translating strategic objectives into consumable, actionable plans and prioritizing work to accelerate value delivery Grasping sophisticated product features and translating them into clear artifacts for shared understanding Deriving epics and end‑to‑end workflows that can be broken down into user stories with defined business value and acceptance criteria Track record of building highly engaged, hard‑working teams focused on execution and capable of removing impediments Effective at running fusions for estimating and planning large efforts, articulating project demands, risks, and roadmap impacts Capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues on solutions, best practices, and tools without formal authority, and serving as day‑to‑day mentor for analyst team members Innovative, intellectually curious, and a team player who continuously improves culture, process, and tools, encouraging an agile way of working The Team You work in partnership with Bond Trading stakeholders, delivery team members, VP Product Management, peer product managers, program/project leads, architects, and engineering leaders aligned to your delivery team. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership principles, you sustain and evolve our innovative agile culture. Work Arrangement Fidelity is transitioning to a full‑time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Some roles and locations currently require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations may evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles. Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain criminal histories. J-18808-Ljbffr
