Lead Product Manager, Legal Technology, OCLO

FINRA • Rockville, MD

11d • $111,400 - $242,600 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Product Manager, Legal Technology, Office of the Chief Legal Officer (OCLO) leads product initiatives to provide innovative, practical, and cost-effective technology solutions to achieve OCLO’s strategic goals and objectives and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of OCLO groups in fulfilling their core business functions. This role works with a high level of autonomy and discretion and requires excellent judgment and decision-making abilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Technology, or related field and a minimum of seven (7) years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of three (3) years in operations and complex project management required.
• Strong organizational skills, with an ability to administer multiple complex assignments concurrently and execute against tight deadlines.
• Experience with planning, designing, and implementing efficient business and system solutions, preferably for Legal, Risk, and Compliance business areas.
• Familiarity with advanced reporting and analytics tools.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to leverage technology to achieve OCLO strategic objectives in collaboration with OCLO offices and FINRA business units.
• Partner with business and technology sponsors to build successful business cases to fund the initiatives.
• Oversee and manage OCLO technology products, in collaboration with FINRA Technology, to ensure all aspects of the products are completed effectively within budget and schedule commitments.
• Define and facilitate the program governance structure and oversee reporting of project status and identification of risks, issues, and key decision points.
• Represent and collaborate with business units across the full project lifecycle.
• Oversee stakeholder engagement and communication, review and prioritization of business requirements, cross-functional user acceptance testing of selected solution(s), and development of change management plans for implementation and adoption.
• Lead efforts to onboard OCLO offices to FINRA’s latest technology tools and platforms to increase the efficiency and timeliness of business operations and achieve strategic goals.
• Drive the adoption of advanced reporting and analytics tools to empower decision making.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology counterparts to evaluate third-party solutions where appropriate.
• Lead vendor engagement efforts from selection through implementation.
• Oversee ongoing service delivery to ensure compliance with legal agreements and performance standards, in collaboration with FINRA Technology.
• Define and manage processes to align business and technology functions and increase efficiency and effectiveness of communication and information sharing.
• Represent OCLO on enterprise Technology initiatives, working groups, and ad hoc special projects.
• Demonstration of FINRA’s values.
• Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.

Benefits

• Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
• Non-exempt employees are also eligible for overtime pay in accordance with federal, state, or local law.
• As part of its dedication to employee wellness, FINRA provides comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance.
• Additional insurance includes basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal.
• FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, and other benefits that support employee wellness, such as adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs.
• Time Off and Paid Leave FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off, 5 personal days and 9 sick days, unless otherwise required by law (all pro-rated in the first year).
• Additionally, we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule).
• Other paid leave includes military leave, jury duty leave, bereavement leave, voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections, care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment).
• Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level