Senior Specialist - Equities Product Management

Nasdaq, a leading global provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services, is looking for an energetic and innovative Sr. Specialist in Product Management.

With this position we are offering the opportunity to collaborate with business leaders and multi-functional teams across Nasdaq to define, iterate and implement the next generation of products, analytics, and technologies to broaden the Investment Intelligence reach into customer workflows.

What You Will Do:

• Engage with diverse customer personas to understand, critically evaluate, and facilitate the development of solutions to their evolving business needs.
• Collaborate with internal partners such as Marketing, Legal, Sales, and Engineering, to ensure the value proposition of products is clear, understood, and resonates with the intended target audience.
• Adopt and utilize Product Management methodologies such as Agile, and tools such as JIRA and Confluence to document, define, and manage projects from inception to launch.
• Recognize new business opportunities and lead the build of products/services, technologies, and/or market plans to capitalize on them. 
• Act as a funnel for product development ideas and build consensus with key people in order to realize new commercial opportunities.
• Identify potential risks to achieving project objective and mitigate risk by implementing procedures, spotting errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• Perform analyses and prepare forecasts and recommendations in the areas of product preferences, sales coverage, market penetration, market practices and sales trends. Provides timely and accurate information and status updates to Direct and Senior Leadership.
• Partner with Sales and Support Teams across Nasdaq to ensure the highest quality customer service expectations are exceeded on a consistent basis. 
• Embrace emerging technologies such as Cloud API's, WebSockets, etc to accelerate the evolution of traditional Markets to the Cloud.

What skills will you need:

• Conceptual and practical expertise in the functioning of  Nasdaq’s markets. This includes insights into the competitive landscape and the ability to effectively communicate those factors to internal and external customers.
• Adept at independently navigating a matrix organization to identify partners and advance solutions through consensus building. Can respectfully challenge the standard methodologies of decision making to improve the organizations' effectiveness in exceeding customer demand.
• Effective communication – being comfortable in speaking publicly in front of clients, facilitating meetings, and written communication including emails, .
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the processes/challenges across customer segments and evaluates solutions from multiple perspectives to ensure the recommended plan of action is not only thoughtful to the customer needs, but fully leverages the cross functional expertise across Teams and Divisions at Nasdaq.
• Considers rules, regulations, and time frames of core business, as well as impact on end users when implementing new business practices, products, or solutions.
• Proven track record of setting priorities and leading, directly as well as indirectly, a team to success through cross functional teamwork and rigorous timeline management.

Education, Professional Accomplishments, and Certifications

• Education Required: Degree qualified in Computer Science, Business/Finance or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Familiar with Agile Approach to Product Development and tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• Experience Required: At least 6 years Financial Services, Market Data, Product Management, or related field
• Special Qualifications: Project Management or other related Certification

This position offers the opportunity for a hybrid work environment (at least 3 days a week in office, subject to change), providing flexibility and accessibility for qualified candidates.

Come as You Are

Nasdaq is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, color, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodatio