Product Area Leader, FI Data Driven Insights

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Agile methodologies, API, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, JIRA, Leadership, Product Development, Product Management

Job Description

The Role

As the Product Area Leader for FI Data Driven Insights, you blend deep business intelligence and analytics expertise with a dedication to delivering stakeholder value across a wide range of FI business functions. You will define and evolve the product areas' vision, strategy and mission and ensure continued alignment and prioritization of work with other key initiatives. In an agile structure, you will partner with other Fidelity leaders to establish product area level strategic priorities based on an understanding of customer needs and enable execution of these priorities by the cross-functional squads aligned to your product area.

You are a top-tier leader advising these squads as they improve value delivered through prioritization, creativity, innovation, collaboration, and decision making and encourage them to work iteratively, innovate through testing and experimentation and learn from failures while celebrating success. You are committed to developing your own knowledge and bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others with that knowledge.

• Enabling an agile and frictionless organization by continuously demonstrating agile behaviors

• Proactively partnering with Domain, Product Area, Chapter Area/CoE, Squad and other leaders to:

• understand the needs of customers and other partners

• define, evolve and communicate strategic priorities, the product area vision and its mission, to execute the domain and broader business strategy and increase the value delivered to customers

• define & measure performance through objectives and KPI’s to define and deliver agreed upon business, financial, technology, and people results

• evaluate and resolve capacity needs aligned with strategic priorities, making trade-offs where vital

• ensure squad optimization through ongoing prioritization and evolution of the squad missions

• inspect and evaluate progress and remove impediments to delivering value

• Supporting and encouraging squad leaders to build appropriate learning opportunities to develop skills

• Assessing industry and customer trends and sharing insights, knowledge, and developments across product areas and squads

• Compelling enterprise-wide alignment through collaboration, knowledge sharing and breaking down silos to achieve the best results for Fidelity

• Working with Chapter Area and other Product Area Leaders to develop technology roadmaps, to drive consistency in use of platforms and APIs, to minimize redundancy and manage IT

• Work directly with associates, managers, and executive leadership to sharply understand their primary objectives and business problems, and to measurably improve their ability to deliver on their objectives via data driven insights

• Set a vision and strategy for self-service actionable insights, with impact measurement, by every associate across FI, regardless of leadership level

• Partner with squad leaders and chief product owners to drive their focused strategic direction and vision, create strong stakeholder relationships, and pressure the business to maximize their benefit from data

• Connect across the enterprise to support prioritized effort around digital priorities, business operational metrics, and core and common capabilities

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 10-15+ years in analytics, business intelligence and product development

• Hands on analytics and BI experience preferred

• Experience developing Artificial Intelligence solutions preferred

• Seasoned leader with a large organization experience consisting of several teams (50+ people)

• Experience engaging with senior internal and external customers and partners

• Financial services experience

• Agile leadership experience

• Jira and JiraAlign experience preferred

• You are a committed leader who serves and an inspirational people leader, capable of setting strategic direction and encouraging others to deliver results and impact to achieve that strategy

• You have senior level experience defining strategic roadmaps and leading the development of solutions and offerings aligned with and in support of the strategic direction of the business

• You have a continuous improvement approach and encourage and enable an agile way of working

• You have strong communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills with which you influence and engage across Fidelity and at all levels of the organization

• You take a data-focused approach to decision making, in day-to-day leadership and strategic tradeoff analyses

• You have or are committed to building a balance of technology and non-technology skills in order to fully appreciate the broad needs of our customers

• Familiarity with Clearing & Custody business preferred

• Business architecture experience preferred

The Team

The Product Area Leader of FI Data Driven Insights manages a team of squad leaders and will work in partnership with these leaders, other Product Area Leaders and Chapter Area Leaders aligned to the product area. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors, you will evolve and sustain an innovative agile culture.