Product Owner

WE ARE:

At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.

Our clients include the world's leading investment banks, investment managers, fintech, and capital market service providers. With offices in London, New York, Barcelona, and Montreal, and Manila we have a global reach and a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant, and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are now seeking a Senior Business Analyst/ Product Owner to join our team and work on an auction and trading platform for a large institutional client.

YOU ARE:

• A strategic thinker with great communication skills
• A great relationship builder with your team and clients
• A problem-solver and team player

YOU HAVE:

• Front office stakeholder relationship management experience;
• Experience delivering in an agile environment;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Some experience with QA/Business Acceptance Testing;
• Some experience working with UX designers;
• Some knowledge of client onboarding, client tiering, KYC

YOU WILL MANAGE THE PROJECT BACKLOG:

• Help stakeholders in making their vision for the product materialize, especially in the early stages of each delivery phase
• Convey that vision to the team and define clear milestones for alignment purposes, and so they can make holistic design decisions that will support the delivery
• Create & maintain a backlog of deliverable stories for the team
• Be the stakeholders' proxy in the team, able to make quick, firm decisions when it comes to scope, requirements and prioritization/triage
• Involve team members when their perspective can bring value, including times when it can support scope and priority decisions
• Follow up during the implementation and testing phases to ensure delivery satisfies the requirements
• Drive the backlog review and estimation process and take part in planning activities
• Capture non-functional requirements and keep supportability in mind
• Define acceptance criteria and tests up front as part of a Business-Driven Development approach
• Use your personal experience with Agile delivery to take advantage of its strengths and mitigate its potential risks
• Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team (including but not limited to: real-time programming, high availability, TDD, BDD, UX design, DevOps concerns…)

• Work with distributed teams

WHY US:

To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive

• ) You can learn from anyone here, which is the beauty of it
• To take part in the growth and development of a great company
• Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns.
• Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in
• Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). The balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us.
• We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion programmes.

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US

You can check our Glassdoor page

BENEFITS (What we offer in return // what you'll get )

We create benefits with YOU in mind.

• Medical from the 1st of month following your start date (i.e. if you join on the 24th of July, it starts on the 1st of August). We make a flat contribution to your healthcare costs:
• Dental and vision from the 1st of the month following your start date - we will contribute 80% of your costs and 70% of your family based on the Aetna Vision and Aetna Vision costs/Aetna Dental PPO 2, Aetna Dental PPO3, and MetLife Dental PPO1.
• 23 days vacation per calendar year
• Group disability insurance: short term and long term (60% and taxable)
• 401K safe harbor plan where we match contributions up to 5% of base pay on a paycheck to paycheck basis (you can opt in after 90 days of service)
• Gym subsidy of $25 or 50% of your membership cost, whichever is lower.
• Life insurance at 2 x salary
• Commuter benefits
• Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account

THE PROCESS

Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us

We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

So here you will have three stage interviews:

1- A chat with one of our great recruiters.
2- A zoom chat with one of BA colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about your experience
3- A Face to Face interview (via Zoom).

But don't worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter.

Here is a little tip for you during those stages:

Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:

Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it's more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity.

All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles