Product Owner AI

Job Description

Role: Product Owner

Experience: 8 years

• Proven experience (5 years) as a Product Manager or Business Analyst in investment banking, specifically in securities settlement and confirmation.

• Strong understanding of trade lifecycle, including trade capture, matching, confirmation,and settlement across asset classes (Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives).

• Familiarity with industry platforms and standards (e.g., SWIFT, DTCC, Omgeo CTM, Euroclear, Clearstream).

• Experience working with Agile methodologies and tools like JIRA, Confluence.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and analytical skills.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, global environment with distributed teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and own the product roadmap for securities settlement and confirmation

• platforms.

• Collaborate with operations, technology, compliance, and business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into product features.

• Lead the development and enhancement of post-trade processing systems, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements (e.g., T 1, CSDR, DTCC, SWIFT).

• Prioritize product backlog and manage sprint planning in Agile/Scrum environments.

• Monitor industry trends and regulatory changes to ensure product compliance and competitiveness.

• Drive automation and straight-through processing (STP) initiatives to improve

• operational efficiency.

• Conduct UAT planning, execution, and sign-off in coordination with QA and business users.

• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for securities lifecycle events, trade matching, settlement instructions, and reconciliation processes.

Generic Skills

• 10 -12 years plus experience working across multiple teams and functions to ensure

• alignment

• knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and Financial Products (preferable)

• excellent writing and communication skills along with managing complex projects'

• backlog

• understanding of the Agile methodology and software development lifecycle

• strong Microsoft software skills (Office, co-pilot)

• Gitlab and SQL knowledge

• proven ability to manage and engage with stakeholders at all levels

• ability to adapt to changing priorities and work in a fast-paced environment

• focus on innovation and continuous improvement

Product Owner skillset :

MUST HAVE

1. Security Settlement / clear understanding of trade life cycle/ Clearing and settlement

2. Cash equities/Fixed income/SBL/Prime brokerage – Any of these

3. Good understanding and knowledge of trade lifecycle and specifically more on clearing

and settlement side

4. Knowledge of Agile framework

5. SQL intermediate (example: join tables, give combinations to run query)

6. Strong problem solving skills and logical reasoning.