Performance Analytics Product Development, AVP
State Street•Quincy, MA
•Onsite
About The Position
The Performance Analytics Product Development team is seeking a business analyst / product owner to work with Product, Technology, and Service Delivery teams to design and deliver performance and analytics solutions. You will be responsible for translating complex business needs into clear product requirements and Agile stories, supporting end‑to‑end delivery from testing through production rollout, and serve as a subject matter expert for performance and analytics capabilities and applications.
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years of experience in financial services, preferably in investment performance reporting, business analysis for product development, product management
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Mathematics or equivalent.
- Strong skillset with quantitative methods and solutions
- Strong technology insights with demonstrated ability to work across business lines/functions
Nice To Haves
- Experience in financial services and investment analysis, including product development, analysis, operations processing, reporting and enhancement initiatives.
- Ability to articulate product capabilities and benefits to teammates, senior management, clients, and colleagues in technology and service delivery
- Strong analytical capability in both quantitative and technical domains
- Comfort and experience with financial data modeling and mapping
- Ability to work with stakeholders, develop and maintain relationships, and act as a persuasive change agent with strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to distil complex information into clear, concise, actionable insights
- Strong collaboration, facilitation, presentation, and negotiation skills
- Strong communication skills to clearly articulate ideas and ability to use experience and analysis to gain support, facilitate consensus, and forge collaboration with internal and external parties
- Familiarity with software development processes and software/product life cycle development activities
- Advanced degrees in Finance or related professional certifications (CA/CFA/CIPM/CAIA or equivalent) a plus
- Prior Product Management, Change Management, or relevant Consulting experience
- Knowledge of Performance Analytics concepts and applications
- Software development or technical solution experience
- Experience with project management/documentation tools such as Confluence and Jira.
- SQL proficiency and experience with data visualization tools.
Responsibilities
- Gather requirements and create detailed product requirements, technical requirements, feature specifications, and agile stories
- Define requirements for investment analytics, data models, and data mapping
- Become a subject matter expert for Performance & Analytics applications
- Develop product roadmaps, business cases, project objectives, operating models, product design, product requirements, process flows, and wireframes
- Define and maintain project schedules, milestones, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, architecture, and cross product dependencies
- Collaborate with Product, Technology, Service Delivery, and other internal stakeholders in the development and rollout of new products and product capabilities
- Provide regular status updates and supporting program management reports as needed
- Support product testing including user acceptance testing as well as test case and test data
- Drive product readiness including release notes, documentation, training, and governance activities for new capabilities and enhancements
Benefits
- retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
- insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
- paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
- access to our Employee Assistance Program
- incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards
- eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
- inclusive development opportunities
- flexible work-life support
- paid volunteer days
- vibrant employee networks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
