Product Analyst
About The Position
The Product Analyst supports an agile product team in the Markets Transformation program throughout the product lifecycle, from inception through retirement. The role performs industry, business, and technical analysis; contributes to product strategy, roadmaps, and prioritization; defines features and quality standards; and helps ensure that products meet user needs and realize business value through continuous feedback. The position works with Product Owners and delivery squads on products in the Post Trade & Custody space. It contributes to product vision and roadmaps with measurable outcomes, supports stakeholder communications, coordinates requirements and user feedback, and helps plan testing, deployment, interim states, and legacy product retirement. The role also drives adoption, monitors operational KPIs, and promotes agile ways of working while advising Product Owners and Product Managers. The Markets Group implements monetary policy on behalf of the Federal Reserve System, conducts lender-of-last-resort operations for depository institutions in the Second District, provides payments and custody services to foreign central banks and international monetary authorities, and serves as fiscal agent for the U.S. Treasury. The Markets Transformation program is a multi-year strategic effort to evolve trading and foreign customer banking technology in support of monetary policy implementation, global financial stability, and the U.S. dollar’s role as the global reserve currency. The position is full-time and onsite with the team, with some flexibility from time to time. It requires access to confidential supervisory information (CSI) and/or Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) information, which is restricted to eligible individuals as described in the posting.
Requirements
- Product analyst experience with exposure to product ownership in financial services, including core transactional systems.
- Proven ability to deliver in high-profile, complex stakeholder environments.
- Advanced Excel proficiency, including pivot tables, formulas, and data analysis.
- Ability to write and interpret SQL queries for data analysis and validation.
- Practical use of AI tools to improve efficiency and outcomes.
- Skill in gathering requirements and documenting business processes within Agile frameworks.
- Ability to bridge requirements discussions between technical product squads and business stakeholders.
- Experience planning, coordinating, and executing user acceptance testing.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills to identify root causes and recommend solutions.
Responsibilities
- Work with Product Owners and delivery squads to deliver products in the Post Trade & Custody space.
- Contribute to product vision and roadmaps with measurable outcomes, aligning with technology partners on Markets Transformation interdependencies.
- Develop messaging and communication materials about product strategy and delivery progress for stakeholder briefings.
- Define feature requirements, user stories, prioritization, and sequencing; coordinate product demonstrations and user feedback sessions.
- Frame decision points using a structured approach for consistent evaluation across the program and with stakeholders.
- Design and execute the user acceptance testing (UAT) approach and scripts, and provide oversight through deployment planning.
- Support planning for interim states and legacy product retirement; coordinate across product owners, architecture, vendors, operations, and business users.
- Drive adoption of product features by providing training, onboarding, and ongoing usage guidance.
- Monitor and communicate product-specific operational KPIs and surface insights for improvement.
- Promote agile behaviors and serve as a trusted advisor to Product Owners and Product Managers.
Benefits
- Educational assistance, career development tools, and stretch opportunities.
- Parental leave, adoption assistance, back-up dependent and elder care, and college planning resources.
- Comprehensive insurance plans and leave policies.
- Onsite Health & Wellness Center and onsite Fitness Center.
- Pension plan.
- 401(k) with generous match.
- Financial planning resources.
- Subsidized public transportation program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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