Product Owner — Reference and Market Data

At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you’re passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team.

Key Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, prioritize, and continuously refine the product backlog in alignment with product strategy, customer needs, business priorities, and roadmap commitments.
• Partner with the Product Manager to define product vision, strategic objectives, roadmap themes, market opportunities, and success measures.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, QA, UX, Data, Architecture, and Operations teams to groom features, clarify requirements, resolve dependencies, and support timely delivery.
• Translate business objectives and complex financial-market requirements into epics, features, user stories, process flows, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, story elaboration, sprint reviews, product demonstrations, and stakeholder feedback sessions.
• Ensure user stories are ready for development by defining functional behavior, data attributes, validation rules, exception handling, dependencies, and testable acceptance criteria.
• Make day-to-day prioritization decisions by balancing customer value, market needs, regulatory requirements, operational risk, technical dependencies, delivery capacity, and time-to-market considerations.
• Serve as the primary business and functional point of contact for the Scrum team, providing timely clarification and decisions throughout the development lifecycle.
• Partner with stakeholders to validate delivered functionality, incorporate feedback, and confirm release readiness.
• Identify and manage product, data, process, and dependency risks; drive appropriate resolution and escalation.
• Support release planning, stakeholder communications, product documentation, training, and change-management activities.
• Define and monitor product success measures, including adoption, data quality, user satisfaction, delivery predictability, operational efficiency, and realized business value.
• Champion continuous improvement in product discovery, backlog quality, Agile practices, delivery processes, and stakeholder collaboration.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Technology, Economics, or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• Demonstrated experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Manager, or similar role supporting financial technology, market data, investment-management, or enterprise financial products.
• Prior experience in the financial technology sector, with a strong understanding of financial-services workflows, data usage, and client needs.
• Strong domain knowledge of financial markets, investment products, and reference data, including instrument, issuer, entity, pricing, corporate actions, classifications, identifiers, symbology, and security hierarchies.
• Working knowledge of financial data from major industry vendors, including Bloomberg, LSEG Data & Analytics (formerly Refinitiv), S&P Global Market Intelligence/Markit, FactSet, and ICE Data Services.
• Strong understanding of multiple asset classes, including Equities, Fixed Income, listed and over-the-counter Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps, Credit Indices, Total Return Swaps, and other investment products.
• Knowledge of reference-data sourcing, vendor data mapping, normalization, enrichment, data lineage, reconciliation, golden-source practices, and data-quality controls.
• Ability to understand financial instrument lifecycles and the downstream impact of data changes across trading, risk, operations, reporting, compliance, and client-facing workflows.
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile delivery environments, including Scrum ceremonies, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.
• Hands-on experience using Jira to create and manage epics, features, user stories, defects, workflows, dashboards, reports, and product backlogs.
• Ability to write clear, concise, and unambiguous user stories with detailed, testable acceptance criteria.
• Experience collaborating with technical teams and working knowledge of software-delivery concepts, including APIs, data integrations, system dependencies, testing, and production releases.
• Excellent stakeholder-management, communication, facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, build alignment across cross-functional stakeholders, and maintain focus on delivering measurable customer and business value. We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work. We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company—and ultimately a community—that recognizes and celebrates everyone’s unique perspective.

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