Product Owner (FX Trading)

Role: Product Owner (FX Trading)

Work Location: San Francisco, California, United States

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Our Challenge:

Looking for a top-performing FX Product Manager with an innovative mindset to help us build the FX capabilities of tomorrow. This is a key role within the FX business and will provide strategic direction and execution of our FX capabilities.

Requirements:

Product Development: includes strategic planning, capability roadmaps, development prioritization, creation of business cases, business needs documentation, product readiness, participation in internal partnership meetings, responding to and remediating findings related to audits, vendor management, regulatory and compliance issues and risk management.

Oversee strategy and development of a portfolio of FX capabilities, including responsibility for outcomes and providing leadership of teams.

Lead the development of cross-functional initiatives in support of business objectives.

Prioritize initiatives and the backlog based on a deep understanding of industry insights, business goals and competitive intelligence.

Create and execute on a clear, actionable channel roadmap with priorities to deliver optimal results for customers and the business.

Execute in an agile product development environment.

Ensure compliance to all required internal processes prior to any external commitments are made or any new initiative is moved to “go live” phase.

Product Marketing: includes communication, industry trend tracking, competitive intelligence gathering and regulatory intelligence gathering.

Competitive analysis – e.g., know what competition has in that product set (or plans to develop) and do comparative analysis.

Customer profiling/targeting – refine with increase data/history – develop profile of target customers.

Market research – pre-product launch and post-launch to determine market acceptance/viability.

Leadership: includes building relationships across the enterprise, influencing other teams and representing FX on cross-organizational product development

Support a culture that emphasizes continuous learning, data analysis, innovation and client focus.

Evangelize new opportunities, cultivating innovation mindset, sharing strong FX and payments expertise.

Preferred Qualifications

Deep understanding of and a passion for product management.

Knowledge of payments and confirmations related to foreign exchange transactions, with extensive knowledge related to SWIFT, Hogan DDA, ACH, Fed Wire and foreign currency accounts.

Familiarity with Application Programing Interface (APIs) and other emerging technology within banks

Demonstrate leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Proven track record of building excellent products.

Proven success achieving objectives requiring a high level of cooperation from people in other parts of the organization.

Excellent problem solving and analytic capabilities utilized to identify root cause issues/improvement opportunities and designing approaches/programs to address those issues.

We can offer you:

A highly competitive compensation and benefits package

A multinational organization with 52 offices in 20 countries and the possibility to work abroad.

Laptop and a mobile phone

10 days of paid annual leave (plus sick leave and national holidays)

Maternity & Paternity leave plans

A comprehensive insurance plan including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-/short-term disability (plans vary by region)

Retirement savings plans

A higher education certification policy

Commuter benefits (varies by region)

Extensive training opportunities, focused on skills, substantive knowledge, and personal development.

On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses

Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups

Cutting edge projects at the world’s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms.

A flat and approachable organization

A truly diverse, fun-loving and global work culture

SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.