Senior Specialist - Equities Product Management

About the position

Nasdaq, a leading global provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services, is looking for an energetic and innovative Director in Product Management. With this position we are offering the opportunity to collaborate with business leaders and multi-functional teams across Nasdaq to define, iterate and implement the next generation of products, analytics, and technologies to broaden the Investment Intelligence reach into customer workflows.

Responsibilities

• Engage with diverse customer personas to understand, critically evaluate, and facilitate the development of solutions to their evolving business needs.
• Collaborate with internal partners such as Marketing, Legal, Sales, and Engineering, to ensure the value proposition of products is clear, understood, and resonates with the intended target audience.
• Adopt and utilize Product Management methodologies such as Agile, and tools such as JIRA and Confluence to document, define, and manage projects from inception to launch.
• Recognize new business opportunities and lead the build of products/services, technologies, and/or market plans to capitalize on them.
• Act as a funnel for product development ideas and build consensus with key people in order to realize new commercial opportunities.
• Identify potential risks to achieving project objective and mitigate risk by implementing procedures, spotting errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• Perform analyses and prepare forecasts and recommendations in the areas of product preferences, sales coverage, market penetration, market practices and sales trends. Provides timely and accurate information and status updates to Direct and Senior Leadership.
• Partner with Sales and Support Teams across Nasdaq to ensure the highest quality customer service expectations are exceeded on a consistent basis.
• Embrace emerging technologies such as Cloud API's, WebSockets, etc to accelerate the evolution of traditional Markets to the Cloud.

Requirements

• Conceptual and practical expertise in the functioning of Nasdaq's markets.
• Adept at independently navigating a matrix organization to identify partners and advance solutions through consensus building.
• Effective communication - being comfortable in speaking publicly in front of clients, facilitating meetings, and written communication including emails.
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the processes/challenges across customer segments and evaluates solutions from multiple perspectives.
• Considers rules, regulations, and time frames of core business, as well as impact on end users when implementing new business practices, products, or solutions.
• Proven track record of setting priorities and leading, directly as well as indirectly, a team to success through cross functional teamwork and rigorous timeline management.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiar with Agile Approach to Product Development and tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• Project Management or other related Certification

Benefits

• 401(k) program with 6% employer match
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with 15% discount
• Student loan repayment program up to $10k
• Company paid life and disability plans
• Generous paid time off
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage
• Health spending account with employer contribution
• Paid flex days to support mental wellbeing
• Gym membership discounts
• Hybrid home/office schedule (for most positions)
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility benefits
• Paid bereavement leave
• Company gift matching program
• Employee resource groups
• Paid volunteer days
• Education Assistance Program
• Robust job skills training and Professional development opportunities