JPMorgan is one of the largest Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) service providers globally with offices, operations and clients throughout the world. The ETF Product Development team is responsible for the delivery of core product enhancements and targeted tactical solutions to meet the extensive needs of the clients and prospects for the ETF product. The team also maintains and expands subject matter expertise, providing thought leadership in the ETF product space. 

Position Summary:

As an ETF Product Development Associate you will be involved the delivery of system developments, liaising directly with Clients, Technology, Operations and Product groups in solution definition, technical design and delivery to production for end users. This will include the planning and management of UAT environment usage and end to end connectivity.

You should be resourceful and execution-driven. Strong cross-functional/business collaboration skills are required as you will work across multiple teams within the bank. You must have strong interpersonal, problem-solving, project management and written and verbal communication skills. Also important is the ability to synthesize large amounts of information into crisp recommendations; present and defend recommendations to a variety of audiences; manage multiple projects simultaneously and drive them to completion effectively.

Importantly, in this role you will provide the foundational experience and cross-business visibility that can serve as a segue to additional transformation opportunities in the Securities Services Product Development organization

Job Responsibilities:

• Partner with our Product, Operations, Testing Groups and senior members of Product Development to plan release UAT and client JUAT’s ensuring the UAT environment connectivity and usage is communicated to all stakeholders
• Creation and oversight of UAT environment program plan detailing all planned releases / testing cycles and providing transparency of any environment contention / downtimes.
• Partner with members of Product Development to design and deliver key elements of the strategic ETF design roadmap
• Manage effective working group meetings across Product, Operations and Technology to deliver on key services and tools
• Identify opportunities for improvement and helping to affect change

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 4 year’s experience in a product development or similar role, with Exchange Traded Fund knowledge
• Ability to interact with a diverse group of teams and be personally accountable for achieving key milestones.
• Guide product enhancements through requirement development, product testing and release management; deliver on-time and under-budget
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple streams of work concurrently
• Ability to work with large volumes of data and convert into a reportable format
• An independent contributor who is comfortable working in a self-directed mode on multiple assignments

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience in use of JIRA, screen design and Microsoft (excel, powerpoint, word etc.) tools.
• Personally, accountable for achieving key milestones on a roadmap
• Be able to progress initiatives in a cross-functional and matrixed organizational model and guide product enhancements through required development, testing, and release management.
• Strong communication and influence management skills, ability to articulate complex ideas and analytics in a succinct way.