MarketAxess

MarketAxess

Senior Product Associate

New York, New York, United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 37 days ago
ComplianceProduct ManagementProduct StrategyAgileJiraConfluenceCommunicationMicrosoft Office

About the role

  • The Senior Product Associate will also act as a representative of the scrum team when engaging with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment and incorporating feedback into the product roadmap.
  • Learn quickly and become a subject matter expert in both fixed income trading and Agile culture, processes, practices and tooling.
  • Work closely with Product Managers to ensure the delivery of coherent and consistently high-quality products delivered at pace.

Responsibilities

  • In this role, you will partner closely with the Product Manager to represent business priorities-helping to define and prioritize features, approve user stories, and maintain clear, consistent communication across stakeholders.
  • You will own and manage the product backlog, creating and refining high-quality user stories that are actionable for the scrum team.
  • This role plays a key part in driving change, championing new ideas, and aligning and motivating teams to deliver against shared objectives.
  • Collaborate with engineering, UX, and business teams to ensure alignment on feature development and technical feasibility.
  • Analyze user and market data for insight on what is driving client behavior. Use this data to produce insightful sales material that will drive product usage.
  • Define and track key product performance metrics, using data to drive continuous improvements.
  • Support the head of product management in tracking business key performance indicators to measure product ROI/success.

Requirements

  • 4+ years working in product, project or business analysis roles.
  • Strong experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and defining scope of work for development teams.
  • Demonstrable ability to work in a team environment.
  • Experience in Agile delivery techniques, including sprint planning, backlog management, and iterative development.
  • Hands on experience with tools such as Monday.com, Jira, Confluence, MS Office, Slack, WebEx.
  • Experience in financial services sector/fixed income.
  • Experience with data-driven decision-making
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject.
  • What You Can Expect from Us

Nice to have

  • We provide free lunch for employees when they are working in the office.
  • Plus, our offices are stocked with snacks
  • Free Food: We provide free lunch for employees when they are working in the office.

Compensation

  • Wellness Stipend: We provide employees with up to $1K annually towards gym memberships, home office equipment and more

Benefits

  • Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs
  • You may also be eligible for annual cash incentives, equity, and other benefit programs.
  • Competitive PTO package including vacation and personal days, sick leave and charity days
  • We provide employees with up to $1K annually towards gym memberships, home office equipment and more

Company info

  • MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world's largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one's ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we're going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.
  • The Role
  • This Senior Product Associate role sits within our core trading product team, focused on building the next generation of fixed income trading solutions for clients and dealers.
  • In this role, you will partner closely with the Product Manager to represent business priorities-helping to define and prioritize features, approve user stories, and maintain clear, consistent communication across stakeholders. You will own and manage the product backlog, creating and refining high-quality user stories that are actionable for the scrum team.
  • Prioritize the backlog of work so that it best supports the execution of the product strategy - write, refine, and prioritize user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Work closely with developers and QA to clarify requirements, troubleshoot issues, and validate feature completion.
  • Be comfortable show casing progress to large groups through demos and walkthroughs on topics such as client case studies, user feedback summaries, or product previews to demonstrate value and progress.
  • Attend meetings with investor clients or dealers and provide product expertise.
  • MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world's largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace.
  • Why does this matter?
  • Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace.
  • Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat.
  • There will be twists and turns, because no one's ever done this before.
  • But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead.
  • We know where we're going.
  • How we get there is up to us.
  • Join us and help Take Us There.

Equal opportunity

  • All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • ion and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orient

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