Technical Product Manager

Company Overview

Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.   

Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.

Arcesium is a Financial Technology and Professional Services Firm, delivering solutions to some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, and institutional asset managers. Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client’s ecosystem, Arcesium’s cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex tasks.

Building on a platform developed and tested by one of the world’s leading investment and technology development firms, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium launched as an independent company in 2015. Arcesium received additional equity backing from a second seed client, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the world’s largest discretionary allocator to hedge funds. In January 2020, J.P. Morgan made a strategic investment in the company. Arcesium supports more than $675+ billion in assets with a staff of over 1650+ software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.

We are looking for an exceptionally talented resource to join one of our cross-functional product teams in our Hyderabad/Bangalore/Gurgaon office for an Individual contributor role. This product team is responsible for building the core accounting product offering of our platform. This position offers opportunity to define and design the next generation of products on our platform, which is used by some of the most sophisticated hedge funds in the world; and to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry.

What you’ll do:

Carry the product/feature from concept to creation

Brainstorm product/feature and its value proposition to our client base

Distill the vision into documents such as product roadmap and product/feature specification via deep dives into domain, gathering requirements and/or business analysis

Work closely with the engineers/architects to translate the Product Specification to design, and then to the product itself

Prepare comprehensive business test cases/beds to aid the engineering process

Rigorously and continuously evaluate the progress of product/feature-in-flight by leveraging the created test cases/beds and ensure compliance to the product/feature specification and the vision

Prepare prototypes using Python and AI

Track and question risks/assumptions

Proactively escalate issues and mitigate execution risks

Be involved in conducting competitor analysis

What you’ll need:

4+ years of experience working in the front, middle and/or back-office space with a minimum of 2+ years of experience in product management

Technical skills needed

Understanding of Java: Familiarity with Java concepts to effectively communicate and collaborate with the development team.

Knowledge of Distributed Systems: Understanding of distributed systems concepts to grasp project requirements and challenges.

Database Awareness: General knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases to contribute effectively to data-related discussions.

Experience working closely with engineers.

Outstanding academic background & passion to work in a high-tech software development environment.

Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

Critical thinking and the ability to articulate standpoints/ideas and influence stakeholders

Ability to multitask and manage multiple lines of execution with attention to detail and quality

A healthy combination of resourcefulness, domain expertise, creativity and execution prowess

Candidate should have a graduate degree in software engineering

Advanced knowledge in field of Trade Accounting and operations or Certifications in financial domain such as MBA, CFA will be an added advantage.

Handson experience on using and integrating various AI tools for building out products will be an added advantage.

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Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.