Senior Product Owner

SimCorp is investing heavily to extend and enhance our multi-asset class order management and trading capabilities. Do you want to make a difference for SimCorp Dimension users? Do you want to own the backlog of an agile team and serve as a customer proxy? Would you thrive defining iterations and stories and accepting product enhancements that deliver real value to traders? Then you might be one of our Product Owners in the Order Management Product Area. 

The position 

A Product Owner (PO) is a Subject Matter Expert and acts as such within an organization. They are responsible for input into roadmaps, new ideas, exploring new market segments and new offerings within their subject area and are expected to be creative.

Reporting into the Product Manager for Order Management, scoping, prioritization, capacity allocation within their area are all part of the PO role, and ensuring compliance with the overall product strategy through collaboration with other roles is essential. 

POs deliver to clients and own the client interaction needed to ensure effective client outcomes. Estimation, refinement and maintaining client commitments are all part of the PO role along with ensuring delivery quality and commitment profitability. POs work with features from end-to-end and have a say in how and when they are delivered. 

The Product Owner is expected to have the following responsibilities and tasks 

Team facing: 

• Define strategy and roadmap within their area of subject matter expertise and communicate product goal and vision to teams 
• Creating features, user story mapping, requirements validation, defining acceptance criteria 
• Ensuring backlog integrity 
• Prioritization of the feature in the backlog 
• Supporting the Scrum Teams during refinement and development 
• Feature acceptance 
• Documentation approval 
• Maximize outcomes for clients 
   

Across teams and Product Areas: 

• Contribute to strategy and roadmap with Subject Matter Expertise 
• Facilitate system demos and involve relevant stakeholders – both internally and externally 
• Cross Product Area backlog management: alignment, prioritization 
• Supporting cross Product Area collaboration 
   

External facing: 

• Define and refine scope with client 
• Estimating and coordinating Client Commitments / Prioritization of requests 
• Understanding of the most valuable outcomes to clients 
• Be the primary point of contact with the client for a subject or client commitment 
• Improving client partnerships 
• Understand the target market space and similar offerings 
• Expert understanding of user needs through interaction with client end users 
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to gather market trends 
• Collaborate with external stakeholders and market events to gather trends 
• Ensure the integration of features in pre-sales environments 
• Ensure the integration of features in marketing and web demo portal 
• Conduct webinars, round tables, client demos, user conferences 
• Produce outcome based material (one pagers, Q&As, etc) 

Your qualifications 

As an ideal candidate, you have: 

• Experience working on financial systems, ideally in the trading/execution space 
• Knowledge of financial instruments, ideally including OTC derivatives 
• The ability to take “on the fly” business decisions at a user story level 
• Ability and experience with engaging proactively with clients and internal stakeholders to solicit input for user stories 
• Critical thinking abilities 
• Great facilitation and listening skills 
• Ability to organize priorities and highlight conflicting priorities
• A positive spirit but with authority to “control” an uncontrolled inflow of backlog items 
• The ability to see the big picture and can convey it to team members 
• High-level understanding of enterprise software development and the ability to work with detail when required 
• An appreciation of user experience design principles 
• The goal to make a positive impact for day-to-day users of SimCorp Dimension 
   

Who We Are

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general.

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients, with SimCorp as the overarching company brand and Axioma as a key product brand.

SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated in our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.

While striving to deliver client value, we believe it is vital to consider our people and our planet in every business decision we make. Acting responsibly is not optional. It is essential.

Next Steps

Please click below to apply or get in touch with [email protected] to learn more about the vacancy and what SimCorp offers regarding salary, benefits, and perks.

Applications are continuously assessed, so please send your CV in English as soon as possible. If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role fits you, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.