Lead Product Owner

As a Lead Product Owner, you will be a key contributor to the evolution of CME Group's flagship suite of trading applications. In this role, you will work in close partnership with Product Managers to support the product lifecycle for our client-facing trading interfaces at the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace.

Working as part of a dynamic and collaborative team, the Lead Product Owner will engage with internal and external stakeholders to increase the value offering of CME’s trading platforms, including CME Direct Desktop, CME Direct Mobile, Clearport, EBS Workstation and BrokerTec Global Front End. The Product Owner is responsible for translating business and customer needs into a prioritized backlog of features and user stories, ensuring that relevant PODs and engineering teams understand not just what they are building, but why it matters to our clients. Drawing on close proximity to the development team and to users, the Product Owner will serve as a key advisor to Trading Application Product Managers, providing critical feedback to help shape the strategic vision and long-term roadmap for CME’s trading applications.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Support Product Managers in scoping, refining and prioritizing feature requests for Trading Applications
• Participate in sprint and system demos, provide feedback in PI Retrospectives to reflect on progress, improvement, opportunities, and outcomes
• Support the delivery of Features which span multiple pods and Product Managers in a Value Chain
• Coordinate dependency resolution with other Product Owners and other stakeholders
• Support Domain/Solution architects to define and discharge non-functional requirements
• Support Product Manager to assess costs and potential trade-offs associated with product-specific demand
• Continuously monitor the product’s performance, gathering feedback from customers and stakeholders using data driven insights to make informed decisions and prioritize future improvements

Skills & Software Requirements:

• Excellent collaborative skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and build strong working relationships.
• Strong communication skills, able to articulate complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Keen interest in and understanding of electronic trading workflows, particularly for derivatives, FX, or fixed income.
• High-level understanding of the technology stack behind high-performance, real-time customer interfaces
• Strong business analysis skills including the ability to articulate customer requirements in a clear and concise manner
• Competency in quantitative and qualitative analysis research skills and a bias towards data driven decision making
• Strong understanding of and ability to articulate technical/non-functional product requirements
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence and/or other AML tools
• Strong knowledge of SDLC preferably with certification in SCRUM and/or SAFe.

Experience:

• 3-5+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst, preferably in the financial technology (FinTech) or capital markets space.
• Working knowledge of Agile, Lean and/or Iterative Development Methodologies

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science or a related field

Certifications (Desired/Preferred):

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)