Product Manager, Platform, Open Directory, Workspace

Product Manager, Platform, Open Directory, Workspace

What you can expect

As the Product Manager for LSEG Directory within Workspace, you will be responsible for shaping, defining, and executing the strategic direction of LSEG’s Open Directory initiative—an integral element of the LSEG Microsoft Partnership. The Open Directory is central to LSEG’s Collaboration strategy, facilitating the expansion of the Workspace community through integration with Microsoft Teams via External Collaboration. In this role, you will provide product leadership to deliver comprehensive platform capabilities, including oversight of external platform dependencies, to support Community adoption. Drawing upon your extensive experience with large-scale Financial Services platforms, you will prioritize and deliver a platform that is both enabling, scalable and robust. Additionally, you will work collaboratively with Workspace Cluster Leads to design advanced customer workflows and innovative, AI-driven experiences that enhance the value of our collaboration tools. Through partnership with various business lines, you will ensure alignment between Workspace program objectives and stakeholder requirements, positioning Workspace as an industry leader.

What you’ll be doing

• Product Manager for one or more squads within our Workspace Collaboration Cluster, focusing on build out of LSEG Directory product
• Collaborate with Workspace platform and community teams to prioritize and develop product features to drive engagement. 
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements for prototype construction and final product development by the product engineering team.
• Drive the execution of all product development processes, including product research, UX prototypes, roadmaps, requirements development and product launch in conjunction with product management leadership.
• Facilitate or participate in all agile ceremonies with the product engineering team, i.e., daily scrums, backlog refinement sessions, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives and look ahead meetings.
• Ensure alignment of all work undertaking to achieve the agreed OKRs.
• Define and track KPIs, usage analytics, and user feedback to address opportunities to remove friction and increase user activity on the platform. 
• Builds effective relationships to ensure the success of the project. 
• Effectively communicates highly complex ideas at multiple organisational levels and modifies personal approach and style to reflect changing circumstance.

What You’ll Need

• Over 10 years of experience in a senior product leadership role
• Deep understanding of Financial Service workflows, personas and communities (i.e. FX, Commodities, FI, Equites, Investment Banking or Wealth)
• Experience and considerations of building large-scale Financial Services platforms
• Experience managing third party vendors and relationships
• Expertise with chat and collaboration platforms
• Familiarity with BOT/Agentic, APIs, and natural language AI technologies
• Extensive background in large matrix organizations
• Demonstrated ability to think creatively and strategically to advance personalization initiatives
• Experience collaborating with senior stakeholders across technology, product, and business divisions
• Excellent communication skills at all organizational levels
• Capability to work cross-functionally with architecture, product, data science, proposition, and project management teams

Who you’ll be working with

Software Engineers, Software Architects, Data Scientists, Product Managers, Project / Delivery Managers, Scrum Masters, Technology Leaders, Community Leads, Customer Success Managers, Senior Business Stakeholders

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