Product Management, VP, Interfaces
About The Position
We are seeking a Product Manager responsible for owning the end-to-end strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Charles River and Alpha Data Interfaces. This role drives product direction across a broad set of external data providers and internal platforms, ensuring scalable, reliable, and client-ready integrations. The Product Manager acts as the primary owner of interface capabilities, partnering across engineering, QA, product security, and external vendors to define priorities, manage tradeoffs, and deliver against client and business objectives. They operate at both a strategic and execution level, translating client and market needs into a prioritized roadmap, while ensuring timely, high-quality delivery across the full software development lifecycle. This role requires deep expertise in financial data and integration patterns, strong technical fluency, and the ability to lead cross-functional efforts in a complex, multi-system environment. Charles River Development brings together data and capabilities across the investment lifecycle to help our clients make better decisions, grow at scale, and deliver returns for their clients. Our diverse team of highly skilled technologists and professionals are agile thinkers and problem solvers, committed to our end users and engineering excellence. We use mentorship and teamwork to impact and drive our business forward every day. By joining the Interfaces team, you will use advanced technology and critical thinking to challenge the status quo and drive results. At Charles River Development (CRD) we’ve been creating some of the most insightful and complex asset management technologies since 1997. Through our commitment to product quality and operating through a client-focused lens, we’ve experienced continuous growth. Charles River IMS is strategically aligned to innovate the future of investment management technologies. Together with State Street’s middle and back-office capabilities, Charles River’s cloud-deployed software technology forms the foundation of State Street Alpha℠
Requirements
- 12+ years of software development lifecycle experience, particularly Agile methodologies preferred
- Strong experience with middle office investment management and investment accounting functions
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation skills
- Advanced writing skills, including the ability to abstract/summarize highly detailed information
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to reconcile conflicting data
- Ability to translate customer business needs into application requirements
- Strong technical background
- Demonstrated planning and scheduling skills
- Curiosity and interest in financial markets and trading.
- Demonstrated ability translating business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical product specification documents
- Knowledgeable in one or more CRD functional financial areas is strongly desired.
- BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or study of Business with an MIS background.
- MS/MBA degree strongly preferred
Responsibilities
- Apply detailed knowledge of business requirements and workflows to assist in product development
- Research and produce business and technical requirement documents
- Work directly with customers and product management team to gather product requirements and develop feature specifications; involvement in all aspects of the software product life cycle
- Partner with development to help develop, implement, and refine features
- Plan and schedule validation tasks; provide hands-on manual tests; develop verification plans and processes
- Provide feedback on product performance
- Review documentation to ensure accurate and complete documentation
- Provide client beta testing support and train personnel on capabilities of new product releases
- Assist with the management of project schedules and deliverables
- Assist implementation and support to resolve escalated client issues
- Actively participate in the Agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum Methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
- Participate in group testing activities as needed.
- Work closely with QA, review and approve QA test plans and test results.
- Coordination with cross functional teams to complete the project on-time and release the product.
Benefits
- competitive and comprehensive benefits packages
- generous medical care
- insurance
- savings plans
- flexible Work Program
- development programs
- educational support
- paid volunteer days
- matching gift program
- access to employee networks
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
