About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

Title: Associate Director, US Equity Indices Product Management

The Impact:  S&P DJI indices serve as the foundation for investment products and portfolio benchmarking. They underpin leading exchange-traded derivatives, ETFs, structured products, OTC instruments, and index funds, playing a crucial role in the investment landscape.

The Team: The US Equity Index Product Management team oversees a diverse set of index products, including iconic benchmarks such as the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average, sector and style indices, and sustainability indices. As asset class experts, the Product Management team sets strategic priorities to drive revenue growth. This team is integral to the Core Equities product group at S&P DJI, providing client solutions, insights, thought leadership, and driving product strategy and financial health.

The Role:  We are seeking an Associate Director to support our US Equity Indices initiatives in the US and globally. This role involves product development, financial monitoring, and providing indexing solutions to clients. The Associate Director will play a key role in ensuring the commercial success of US Equity indices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and execute product development strategy, working closely with the Head of US Equity Indices
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis to support new product initiatives and strategic sales efforts
• Develop a deep understanding of the underlying data and methodologies required to create and maintain our key US Equity indices
• Manage multiple internal and external stakeholders with key messaging and deliverables
• Represent US Equity indices in client and prospective client meetings as a subject matter expert
• Support US Equity Indices through analysis and content creation for thought leadership materials (blogs, white papers, videos)
• Collaborate with the Research and Design team on index design
• Plan and coordinate tasks for the smooth and timely launch of new indices

• Work closely across Product Management team members and support global initiatives

• Take direction from senior Product Management leadership and collaborate closely on projects with other product managers across the product organization
• Identify growth opportunities and develop robust pipeline of growth for existing business, indices, and builds
• Contribute to prioritization and backlog management including sprint planning and executing on identified sprint deliveries

What’s In It For You

The investment industry is in the midst of a tremendous structural shift brought about by technological changes and the shift from active to passive investing. This position sits squarely at the epicenter of this evolution.

The role will provide exposure to multiple products within investment management. You will join a high performing team where you will have the opportunity to learn from local and international colleagues. 

The role will allow the Associate Director to have impactful exposure to multiple groups within S&P DJI (Index Governance, Index Management & Production, Marketing and Communications, Research & Design, Client Coverage, and others), to global clients such as asset managers and asset owners, structured product desks, other financial technology and data players. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of an iconic leading benchmark provider, bringing independent, transparent, innovative index solutions to the global investment community.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree required, master’s degree in a relevant field or progress towards a CFA Charterholder status a plus
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience
• Understanding of the investment process, investment management industry, portfolio theory, and financial markets is required
• Familiarity with sustainable financial topics and industry best practices, as well as sector and style investment strategies, is highly desirable
• Self-driven with strong research and innovation skills
• Strong multi-tasking capabilities is a must for this dynamic role that touches on every aspect of the index life-cycle
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills are essential, comfortable working with large datasets
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; candidate will eventually deliver high quality presentations both internally to management and externally to clients
• The position requires interacting with sophisticated clients and the candidate should demonstrate ability to ask questions and advise toward client solutions
• Programming skills (Python, R,