Senior Director, Product Owner (Chicago)

Fitch Group • Chicago, IL

33d • $190,000 - $230,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Fitch Solutions is a leading provider of insights, data and analytics that informs investment strategies, strengthens risk management capabilities and helps identify strategic opportunities. Its analysts, lawyers, journalists and economists offer in-depth views on credit markets and risk, individual credits, ESG, developed and emerging markets, and industry sectors. Fitch Solutions is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Fitch Group is owned by Hearst. By becoming part of the Fitch Solutions team, you will join colleagues delivering critical data, insightful research and comprehensive analytics that empower clients to make informed decisions. You will work in a dynamic environment where innovation is encouraged and collaboration is central to developing solutions that address the evolving needs of global markets. With a portfolio of best-in-class, award-winning brands, we offer the opportunity to advance your career while contributing to a company known for its expertise and commitment to excellence. Platform Products is responsible for building shared capabilities that can be leveraged across the organization. We operate a product-led model focused on identifying common business needs, building reusable solutions once and enabling business units to adopt them at scale. Our mission is to accelerate innovation, improve consistency and reduce duplication by delivering platform capabilities across Fitch Solutions. While business units focus on domain expertise and commercial differentiation, Platform Products develops the foundational capabilities that support them all. As Senior Director, Product Owner, you will provide strategic leadership across a portfolio of platform capabilities. You will shape product vision and roadmaps, align senior stakeholders around priorities, and lead cross-functional teams in delivering scalable solutions that create measurable value across multiple business areas.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, platform strategy or a related discipline, including significant leadership responsibility.
• Substantial experience in financial services, financial information, data and analytics, or another complex and highly regulated industry.
• Proven record of defining product strategy and delivering enterprise platforms or shared capabilities used across multiple business units.
• Experience leading and developing product professionals and can build high-performing, accountable teams in a matrixed organization.
• Skilled at influencing executives and aligning technical and business stakeholders around complex priorities and investment decisions.
• Strong knowledge of Agile and product-led delivery practices, with experience using tools such as Jira to support execution and transparency.
• Experience with data platforms, AI-enabled products, APIs, cloud-based capabilities or other technology-driven solutions.
• Use data, client insight and business outcomes to guide prioritization and measure product success.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and can translate complex concepts for technical, business and executive audiences.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated success translating enterprise strategy into scalable platform capabilities and measurable business outcomes.
• A strong customer-centric mindset combined with sound commercial judgment and an enterprise-wide perspective.
• Experience leading platform transformation, product operating model evolution or large-scale adoption across a global organization.
• Knowledge of Fitch systems, products, data or client workflows.
• Experience applying AI, advanced analytics or automation to improve products, workflows or decision-making.
• Demonstrated initiative, intellectual curiosity and a commitment to continuous learning and talent development.

Responsibilities

• Set the product vision, strategy and multi-year roadmap for a portfolio of shared platform capabilities, ensuring alignment with Fitch Solutions’ business priorities, client needs and technology strategy.
• Build deep expertise in Fitch’s data, products, underlying architecture and integration points, and use that knowledge to guide investment decisions and platform evolution.
• Own portfolio-level prioritization and product backlogs, balancing strategic initiatives, business demand, technical enablement, risk, scalability and measurable value.
• Partner with executive leaders, Product Managers and business-unit stakeholders to translate strategic goals into clear outcomes, investment cases, epics and delivery plans.
• Lead and develop Product Owners and product delivery colleagues, establishing clear accountability, strong product practices and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Guide cross-functional collaboration across engineering, architecture, data, AI, design, operations and business teams to deliver high-quality, reusable platform solutions.
• Establish product governance and decision-making forums that create transparency around priorities, dependencies, trade-offs, risks, timelines and outcomes.
• Identify and resolve complex, cross-portfolio dependencies and delivery blockers, escalating and influencing effectively when executive decisions are required.
• Drive stakeholder alignment across business domains, navigating competing priorities and building commitment to enterprise-wide platform adoption.
• Define success measures and oversee product performance, adoption, client or user value, operational effectiveness and return on investment.
• Sponsor validation, user acceptance and release readiness processes to ensure delivered capabilities meet business, control and quality expectations.
• Champion disciplined product documentation, process flows, release communications and knowledge assets that support transparency, adoption and scalability.
• Represent Platform Products in senior leadership discussions and communicate product strategy, progress, risks and outcomes with clarity and credibility.
• Advance the product operating model by introducing practices that strengthen discovery, prioritization, delivery, measurement and cross-functional execution.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Environment: 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location
• A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
• Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals
• Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
• Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
• Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued, with Employee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
• Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community

What This Job Offers

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