MFS
Sr. Manager – Quantitative & Risk Infrastructure Product Owner
Boston · Senior · Full-time
No sponsorship$133k-$199kDetected 26 days ago
SnowflakeAzureCI/CDProduct ManagementProduct StrategyAgileResearchLeadershipCommunicationTime Management
About the role
- Requires specialized depth and breadth of expertise across quantitative investing, risk analytics, and technical platforms
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary product interface between quantitative investors, risk teams, technology partners, and senior stakeholders, translating investment and risk needs into a clear, actionable product backlog.
- Drive the development of tooling and infrastructure that enables direct tool-building by quantitative investors, while ensuring consistency with enterprise architecture, data governance, and security standards.
- Ensure core quantitative infrastructure is robust, scalable, and well-designed, reducing operational friction and enabling repeatable research-to-production workflows across teams.
- Integration of risk measures into portfolio construction, decision-support, and monitoring tools
- Collaborate with the Chief Product Owner for Investment Research and Quantitative Solutions Technology to ensure alignment across research, analytics, and quantitative platforms.
- Ensure platforms are designed with cloud-native considerations, including familiarity with Azure-based services and data platforms such as Snowflake, where appropriate.
- Build strong alignment with fundamental investment teams by understanding how fundamental investors leverage quantitative analysis and risk metrics to inform investment decisions.
- Partner with Scrum Masters and technology leadership to manage delivery within agreed funding, capacity, and scope constraints.
- Actively manage dependencies, risks, and impediments that could impact roadmap delivery, proactively escalating and resolving issues as needed.
- Assume additional responsibilities as requested in support of strategic departmental or firm-wide initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
- 6-8+ years of experience in the financial services or technology industry, with familiarity with quant portfolio research and investment risk models.
- Strong understanding of the product and the needs of the business.
- Knowledge of and/or experience with writing effective user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Ability to interact and influence at all levels of the organization.
- Experience supporting quantitative investment and risk professionals
- Operate independently with guidance required only in the most complex or enterprise-impacting situations
- Apply strong understanding of risk frameworks and analytics, including:
Nice to have
- Advanced degree to CFA Charterholder preferred.
- Experience as a Product Owner on an Agile team preferred.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) preferred
Compensation
- MFS contributes an amount equal to 15% of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company -sponsored 401(k)
- $132,500.00 - $198,500.00This position is eligible for competitive incentive bonus.
- At MFS, we believe in fair and transparent compensation.
- For that reason, we're including the salary range for this position.
- This range reflects our good-faith expectation for what we'll pay depending on the candidate's experience, training and education.
- In addition to the salary, we also offer significant and competitive incentive compensation based on both individual and company performance.
Benefits
- Generous time off and fully paid leaves including 20-weeks for maternity, 12-weeks for parental and caregiver leaves
- Choice of medical and dental plans and an and an employer contribution into the Health Savings Account
- Tax deferred commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care)
- Our compensation philosophy is to pay competitively for talent while ensuring equity across employees performing comparable work.
- We are committed to transparency - if you have questions about how we arrived at this range or what additional benefits and bonus opportunities come with the role, we'll be happy to discuss them
- If any applicant is unable to complete an application or respond to a job opening because of a disability, please contact MFS at 617-954-5000 or email talent_acquisition@mfs.com for assistance.
Equal opportunity
- Additionally, retaliation, including intimidation, threats, or coercion, because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation, or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State, or local EEO law is prohibited.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
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