Principal Product Manager - Investment Analytics (Fixed Income)

Capital Group•Los Angeles, CA

3d•$208,245 - $354,017•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Principal Product Manager, you’ll be part of a highly specialized and collaborative team in shaping and delivering proprietary investment tools and capabilities. You’ll be responsible for identifying user needs, market opportunities, and technology trends and developing an inspiring product vision. You’ll define the user experience in the form of features and functionality across multiple products and drive product roadmap to meet the vision. As products are launched, you’ll measure product and business metrics to understand the ongoing needs, increase adoption, and drive business value. You will be the voice of the user and work with other teams to identify roadblocks, solutions, and escalate to senior leadership when necessary. You’ll collaborate with portfolio managers, engineers, designers, researchers, analysts, and other cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products and features to drive better decisions within Capital Group’s investment process.

Requirements

Deep experience in portfolio construction and fixed income, with the ability to translate complex investment concepts into product requirements.
Deep understanding of portfolio and risk analytics (e.g., performance attribution, risk decomposition, stress testing), and can partner closely with quant, risk, and investment teams on product design.
Experience leading the end-to-end development and delivery of mission-critical investment platforms and capabilities, from defining business requirements, product vision, and platform strategy through architecture, vendor evaluation, implementation, launch, adoption, and ongoing optimization.
Strong understanding of fixed income portfolio construction, risk analytics, and investment workflows, including experience with Aladdin or similar investment management platforms.
Ability to translate user insights and business objectives into a compelling product vision and strategy that aligns with our investment capabilities and goals.
Keen eye for details and immaculate organizational and prioritization skills.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts and ideas to senior leaders and diverse audiences.
Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, engineering, or related fields.
Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in product design, management, and execution in financial services or asset management industry.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Identifying user needs, market opportunities, and technology trends and developing an inspiring product vision.
Defining the user experience in the form of features and functionality across multiple products and drive product roadmap to meet the vision.
Measuring product and business metrics to understand the ongoing needs, increase adoption, and drive business value.
Being the voice of the user and work with other teams to identify roadblocks, solutions, and escalate to senior leadership when necessary.
Collaborating with portfolio managers, engineers, designers, researchers, analysts, and other cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products and features to drive better decisions within Capital Group’s investment process.
Owning and executing the go-to market plan, monitoring, reporting on customer effect and defining key metrics.
Leading project teams, building strong connections to drive efficiencies.