Product Owner Senior Associate

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

12h • $75,000 - $150,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a member of the Repository & Derivatives Services (RDS) Product Management team, the Product Owner (Senior Associate) plays a critical role in delivering strategic initiatives that drive innovation, efficiency, and growth across the RDS domain. This role focuses on translating product direction into tangible, production-ready capabilities, leveraging data, analytics, and emerging technologies to enhance client value and support DTCC’s broader strategic objectives. You will work cross-functionally to solve complex problems, deliver high-quality solutions, and contribute to product evolution in a rapidly evolving financial landscape.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in product ownership, business analysis, product delivery, data delivery, or solution delivery
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Financial Mathematics, Engineering, Finance, or a related quantitative / technical discipline

Nice To Haves

• Strong execution mindset; able to turn product direction into deliverable outcomes
• Prior experience in financial services, RegTech, regulatory reporting, transaction reporting, or post-trade technology
• Hands-on experience with Agile delivery practices, including Scrum, Kanban, or scaled Agile delivery
• Hands-on experience with JIRA or equivalent backlog / delivery management tooling
• Working knowledge of SQL and data analysis concepts
• Experience with data modelling or data-driven product delivery
• Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms
• Familiarity with Snowflake Cortex, AI-enabled analytics, or comparable analytics tooling
• Python or similar scripting experience
• Comfortable moving between structured delivery and exploratory prototyping
• Able to translate business logic, data, and user needs into clear requirements
• Strong analytical problem-solving and attention to detail
• Confident presenting demos, gathering client feedback and supporting sales functions
• Produces high-quality outputs with limited supervision
• Strong collaboration across product, technology, data, and client-facing teams

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery teams, including Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Developers, QA Analysts, and other stakeholders, to create solutions that meet business needs in an Agile environment.
• Own and manage the product backlog, translating product direction into clear user stories, workflows, business rules, data requirements, and acceptance criteria based on real-world scenarios.
• Guide the team in decomposing requirements into deliverable increments, maintaining just-enough documentation and a running functional specification for final deliverables.
• Review enhancement requests, defects, and production feedback to determine appropriate solutions while considering downstream impacts on existing features, data flows, and user experience.
• Analyze regulatory, client, and business requirements, and lead walkthroughs, demos, and functionality feedback sessions with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the design, prototyping, and delivery of strategic AI and analytics use cases, ensuring they are practical, scalable, and aligned to business outcomes.
• Develop a strong understanding of confirmations and transaction reporting datasets, including the underlying insights, data structures, workflows, and business logic.
• Partner with internal teams such as Sales, Operations, Technology, Legal, and Finance to support operational readiness, align risk and control considerations, and escalate appropriately.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

What This Job Offers

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