The Opportunity
IndexUniverse, the leading independent authority on ETFs, is looking for a dynamic Product Management professional to lead our ETF Analytics Product Portfolio. With over $1 trillion in assets under management within the ETF landscape, IU is poised to leverage our 10-year history as the leading independent ETF authority and bring ETF Analytics, research and rankings solutions to investors and advisors globally. This frontier market segment for investor research for ETFs is in high demand and IndexUniverse is ready to lead the way with professional-grade, investor-focused research and data solutions.

Description
Through extensive customer and partner facing activities, you will be responsible for all aspects of developing and managing our product portfolio. You will ensure that the product portfolio supports the company's overall long-term strategy and goals in addition to aligning to market and customer needs. You will be responsible for complete product lifecycle management for each constituent product including gathering and prioritizing customer, partner and market requirements; working closely with engineering and product development teams, sales, marketing, and the ETF Analyst team to ensure company and customer delivery goals are met. Transparency, cooperation and leadership between internal functional groups and business lines will be critical elements of success.

Functional Scope

• Refine and improve overall process for gathering voice of customer and incorporating identified needs and market insights
• Ensure that the market and customer needs are prioritized, incorporated and met by the product portfolio plan and that it aligns to the business objectives and strategy of the company
• Using available customer and market needs data, business requirements and emerging market trends, envision and validate future product opportunities
• Translate product visions into high-level product requirements documents including supporting market analysis, customer analysis, competitive analysis, business case justifying investment, etc.
• Translate product features and requirements into development-ready technical specifications
• Focus heavily on managing product development and delivery
• Work collaboratively to define the product portfolio strategy with leadership team to capture and appropriately define the long-term vision and roadmap
• Provide thought leadership to the product development team tasked with product / platform development
• Facilitate and support a product development process focused on short development cycles and iterative features and provide corresponding justification for prioritization.
• Foster intercompany teamwork and create a positive work environment inside our product, editorial and technology teams
• In conjunction with Business Development, manage and drive our outside partner relationships
• Forecast, track and report on product management performance timelines
• Drive internal discussion about strategies, ideas, new opportunities and the best methods for achieving success in a changing marketplace
• Through extensive customer interaction, define the user experience and work flow requirements

Requirements

• 5+ Years' Experience in a senior product management role for a professional financial services targeted SaaS solution, preferably in the Wealth Management, Equity Research, Financial Adviser segments
• Demonstrated experience in a technology environment and managing the full software development lifecycle
• Demonstrated success defining, developing launching and running enterprise class web/SaaS subscription based products
• Strong experience in customer facing and customer defined feedback processes
• Understanding of large data and analytics application architectures
• Experience and knowledge of master data management, data quality and governance topics
• Experience and knowledge of ETL, data warehousing and SOA
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong team-work skills
• Strong project management skills
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Knowledge of ETF, Index, Market and Reference Data a key plus
• Strong experience in customer facing and customer defined feedback processes
• Bachelor's degree required - MBA and/or PhD a plus
• Relevant company experience includes Thomson Reuters, Morningstar Advisor Workstation, FactSet, Lipper, Zeyphyr StyleAdvisor, etc.
• Ability to speak Spanish and/or other foreign languages a strong plus
• Individual must be highly organized and detail oriented

Near term deliverables

• First 60-day deliverables: Evaluate and establish product management business processes for IU ETF Analytics next generation products including owning and completing Product Vision Plans, Market Requirements Documents, Product Requirement Documents, etc.
• Establish and manage budget for development
• Must enjoy fast paced dynamic environment and have strong entrepreneurial skills

IndexUniverse LLC is the world's leading independent authority on exchange-traded funds, index funds and indexes. Our suite of publications, including the Journal of Indexes, ETFR and IndexUniverse.com, are the books of record for their industries. Our conferences, including Inside ETFs, Inside Commodities and Inside ETFs Europe, are the largest in their fields. And our new ETF Analytics product aims to remake the industry by changing the way investors choose ETFs. With a razor-sharp focus on the financial advisor and institutional investor communities, Index Publications has built an unmatched reputation for analytical expertise in the ETF and index space over the past eight years. We feel like we're just getting started.