Global Investment Banking – Product Lead (executive Director)

Senior Product Lead

We are seeking a senior Product Lead to create, manage, and drive adoption of technology tools within the Investment Banking Division. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing products through their full life cycle, a deep understanding of financial services, strong technology and project management skills, a passion for innovation and problem solving, and the ability to internally market products effectively. Specific focus will be on client engagement and intelligence tools that enable senior bankers to more effectively cover their clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Product management: Oversee the entire product life cycle including collection of requirements, feasibility studies, design, development, validation, pilot, and production. Ability to handle multiple project priorities simultaneously.
• Product development: Gain a deep understanding of business stakeholder requirements and collaborate with IT to translate into best-in-class products. Be customer-obsessed with designing the most end-user friendly tools that enable bankers to be more effective and efficient in their work. Collaborate with IT teams to address roadblocks and manage projects to meet aggressive deliverable deadlines.
• Adoption: Market products to bankers to maximize ROI of development efforts. Train bankers on how to extract the most value from these tools. Success is measured by tool adoption and the benefits they bring to the organization.
• Collaboration: Work closely with IT, Strats, Bankers, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Senior Management. Be the center of gravity for products and closely communicate product objectives and status to partners within and outside of the Investment Banking/Global Capital Markets division. Build and maintain relationships with delivery partners across functions.
• Vendor engagement: Look for opportunities to integrate external technology and data into products for faster time to market and enhanced capabilities.
• Innovation: Stay up to date with latest technology advancements to continuously improve existing systems and incorporate new innovations such as AI.
• Continuous improvement: Monitor quality and proactively request feedback to drive continuous improvement of products. Extract insights from bankers to deliver fine-tuned products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance/Economics, Computer Science/Engineering, or similar field.
• Experience as an Executive Director or Vice President in investment banking required. Strong knowledge of investment banking client coverage required.
• Experience with software development or software product/project management a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple priorities.
• Autonomous, self-starter with ability to think strategically and also roll up sleeves to execute.
• Strong communication skills with collaborative mindset.
• Strong work ethic and a positive attitude. Highly responsive and communicative.
• Inquisitive, feedback-oriented, adaptive, hungry, and results-oriented.

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