Product Owner - Fintech - NYC - Salary up to 180K + Benefits

WE ARE: 

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintech and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona, Manila and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

As we embark on an exciting exchange replatforming project to enhance performance, scalability, and to create a foundation for expansion into new asset classes. This multi-phase initiative starts with system parity, followed by the introduction of futures, options, and auctions.

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To support this, we’re hiring a Product Owner to join our team in New-York City.

YOU ARE: 

• A strategic thinker with great communication skills 
• A great relationship builder with your team and clients
• A problem-solver and team player
• Experienced within the financial industry 
• Happy to travel outside of the USA to work with the client onsite from time to time

YOU HAVE:  

• Front office stakeholder relationship management experience
• Experience delivering in an agile environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with QA/Business Acceptance Testing
• Experience working on Exchange build
• Strong knowledge of Options and Futures
• Scrum master and PM skills are a plus!

YOU WILL: 

• Manage the product backlog
• Help stakeholders in making their vision for the product materialize, especially in the early stages of each delivery phase
• Convey that vision to the team and define clear milestones for alignment purposes, so they can make holistic design decisions that will support the delivery
• Create & maintain a backlog of deliverable stories for the team
• Be the key driver in requirements discovery, story writing, refinement, and effort estimation
• Be the stakeholders’ proxy in the team, able to make quick, firm decisions when it comes to scope, requirements and prioritization/triage
• Involve team members when their perspective can bring value, including times when it can support scope and priority decisions
• Follow up during the implementation and testing phases to ensure delivery satisfies the requirements
• Drive the backlog review and estimation process and take part in planning activities
• Capture non-functional requirements and keep supportability in mind
• Define acceptance criteria and tests up front as part of a Business-Driven Development approach
• Use your personal experience with Agile delivery to take advantage of its strengths and mitigate its potential risks
• Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team (including but not limited to: real-time programming, high availability, TDD, BDD, UX design, DevOps concerns…)
• Work with distributed teams

WHY US: 

• To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive 😁) You can learn from anyone here, which is  the beauty of it
• To take part in the growth and development of a great company
• Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns
• Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in
• Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). The balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us
• We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programs

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US 🗣

You can check our Glassdoor page 🎉

BENEFITS  (What we offer in return // what you’ll get )

We create benefits with YOU in mind.💜 

• Flexible hybrid working model
• Medical from the 1st of month following your start date (i.e. if you join on the 24th of July, it starts on the 1st of August). We have 6 Aetna plans to choose from as provided by our PEO, Justworks. We make a flat monthly contribution to your healthcare costs
• Dental and vision from the 1st of the month following your start date - we have 3 dental and 2 vision plans to choose from.  We make fixed contributions to each.
• 23 days of vacation per calendar year plus 11 public holidays
• Group disability insurance: short-term and long-term (60% and taxable)
• 401K safe harbor plan where we match contributions up to 5% of base pay on a paycheck-to-paycheck basis (you can opt-in after 90 days of service)
• Gym subsidy of up to $50 per month (and we pay the taxes on that so it's a real $50) post probation
• Life insurance at 2 x salary
• Commuter benefits
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account

THE PROCESS

Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us 😉

We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

So here you will have three stage interviews:

1- A chat with one of our great recruiters
2- A zoom chat with one of BA colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about your experience
3- A Face to Face interview (via Zoom)

But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter. 

Here is a little tip for you during those stages: 

Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc 😊 

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: 💜

Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity.
All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles

E-verify Notice: Adaptive Financial Consulting Inc. makes use of E-Verify to validate someone's right to work in the US. We will provide the Social Security Administration, and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security, with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Please note that we do not use this information to pre-screen job applicants.

Background check: the employment/engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive