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Product Development Director
Fitch Ratings
New York, NY, United States
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Fitch Ratings is adding a new Director of Product Development to our credit ratings business. The ideal candidate is an energetic and collegial, and has significant experience delivering new products or enhancements through the product lifecycle for fixed income, fundamental financial data, and analytics content sets. Exposure to credit rating, fixed income investment or banking risk management sectors is strongly desired. The ideal candidate is excited by the opportunity to implement new products that either enhance or complement Fitch’s core credit rating analytics.
Responsibilities:
• Work enthusiastically, respectfully and collaboratively with analytical groups, Business Relationship Management (BRM), Investor Development Team (IDT), Information Technology (IT) and other stakeholders.
• Design, propose, implement, and maintain products, product features and roadmaps.
• Regularly interface with external clients and market participants.
• Interface with appropriate groups to help in market research and market sizing exercises.
• Engage daily with IT development teams and participate/lead stand-up meetings.
• Author stories and acceptance criteria, reply to incidents, and manage product communications.
• Effectively communicate and manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
• Identify gaps in products and features with respect to other rating agencies and credit risk management firms.
• Lead the product training and change management process.
• Work closely with Marketing to develop and ensure effective product launches and promotion.
• Work closely with business analytics teams to measure progress against key performance indicators.
• Promote and coach others regarding Fitch Ratings product development process.
Qualifications and experience:
• 7 plus years of product management experience in the credit risk management sector.
• Significant experience with Agile/Scrum development framework
• Fluent in translating and simplifying business requirements into epics and stories with acceptance criteria.
• Flexible and adaptable: ability to identify and deliver the right solution in a timely fashion; a high degree of proactive problem-solving skills is critical.
• Exceptional process and project management skills: detail-oriented, highly organized, and a quick learner; execution to full completion of a task or project is necessary.
• Keen product intuition and UX design sensibilities
• Prior work experience, or knowledge of financial information and related products including:
◦ Understanding of the role of credit ratings in the fixed income and financial markets;
◦ Fundamental understanding of the credit risk sector including structured finance, corporate, banking, and insurance sectors
◦ Exposure to and familiarity with fundamental financial and market data.
Fitch Ratings and Fitch Solutions are an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer, complying with all laws governing employment in each jurisdiction in which operating, and provide equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and other status protected by applicable laws.