LPL Financial is seeking to build a career where ambition meets innovation and empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence, specifically by leading the data strategy and execution for the Investment Management product portfolio and transforming the core Direct Business platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data-focused product management, product ownership, or business systems analysis, preferably within financial services.
- 5+ years as a Product Owner or Product Manager in a complex, enterprise-scale Agile/Scrum environment.
- Proven expertise in data governance, data quality management, and defining data requirements for large-scale platforms.
- Expert proficiency with Jira and Confluence for creating and managing product roadmaps, backlogs, and strategic documentation.
- Deep technical background with an expert understanding of data architecture, SORs, APIs, and data modeling.
- Strong analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to use data to evaluate opportunities, define success metrics, and drive prioritization.
- Proactively anticipates, identifies, and manages risks related to data quality, security, and project delivery.
Responsibilities
- Define and champion the product vision and roadmap for Investment Management products, ensuring alignment with the overall product strategy and firm-wide data governance principles.
- Act as the primary steward for data domains, establishing and enforcing data quality rules, access controls, and security protocols.
- Foster deep collaboration between business, technology, and operations teams to translate high-level business needs into a clear and actionable data product backlog.
- Own and prioritize the data product backlog, working with scrum teams to deliver features, enhancements, and foundational data capabilities.
- Foster a culture of data literacy and knowledge sharing, ensuring that data is treated as a critical, shared asset across the organization.
- Partner closely with senior business and technology stakeholders to align the data strategy with the firm's broader product goals.
- Act as a key liaison between scrum teams and business stakeholders to ensure the teams build the right solutions at the right time to maximize business value.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business-related field.
- Ability to translate complex business goals into a clear and actionable data product strategy.
- Proven ability to drive outcomes and align cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders without direct authority.
- Exceptional skills in presenting complex data concepts and strategies to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organization.
- Commitment to equality and embracing diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
