About IG
IG has been at the centre of retail trading and investment since 1974, when we helped create the market for financial spread betting. Today, we're a FTSE100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 700,000 clients and handling billions in transactions - built on decades of scale, trust and proof. We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated.
Role Overview
Your focus will be enabling IG to gain optimal value from the Data we create, hold and process. You’ll work with stakeholders at every level to help shape a vision and strategy to help IG build world class tools and processes that enable us to leverage our data to create insights, make decisions and identify opportunities. You’ll drive the adoption of enabling data tools to bring the value in our data to everyone at IG.
Key Responsibilities
- Define & communicate a Product Vision for Data
- Define & communicate a Product Roadmap(s) for Data
- Manage & prioritise your Product Backlog(s)
- Manage & create Epics, Stories, Spikes etc. Collaborate with engineers and architects to create & refine these.
- Engage & collaborate with Stakeholders to achieve Product Vision
- Engage & collaborate with Data Science and Engineering communities to collaborate, provide visibility of prioritisation and progress.
- Establish a cadence of ceremonies/meetings/workshops to drive progress with both the teams delivering your product vision, and your customers & stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Architecture to achieve your Vision for Data
- Collaborate with Product Management to achieve your Product Vision and define a wider Strategy.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architecture on improvements to ways of working and process.
- Collaborate with Project and Programme management where needed to drive and deliver data outcomes or where there are dependencies on doing so.
- Help drive Product Management culture, mindset & principles by advocating for improvement and sharing methods, principles, and practice.
- Share learned knowledge, practices, and methods to help the Product team grow.
- Help shape and define metrics we can use to measure progress both in terms of product / service impact and progress.
- Collaborate with Delivery Managers/Engineering Leads to plan iterations, prioritise work and allocate people in our teams to achieve your Product Vision
- Define and communicate to the team and stakeholders, the users/customers of your products & services to better align your vision with valuable unmet needs.
- Help Product and Platform leadership define and execute an iterative strategy that enables IG teams to build better products using common platform services.
- Engage with vendors and 3rd parties where needed to help bring to IG the best commercial partners to help achieve your Product Vision.
We want you to have more than a job – we want you to have a career. We offer internal and external learning opportunities, and the tools to help you skyrocket to success. Perks include networks, committees, awards, sports and social clubs, mentorships, volunteering opportunities, and extra time off. We follow a hybrid working model, which feeds into our secret ingredients for innovation: diversity, flexibility, and close connection.
Requirements
- Proven ability to define and execute a product vision, strategy and road-map
- Capability to understand commercial imperatives of how IG products work and the commercial models that underpin them
- Proven ability to go from strategic planning to delivery of both innovative initiatives and tactical activities that optimize business value
- Proven technical expertise, knowledge of data principles and experience with working with data engineering teams
- Excellence at identifying cross program and product dependencies
- Bring awareness of emerging data technologies and suppliers
- Experience working with Agile projects at scale, with several different streams and different stakeholders
- Ability to negotiate, inspire, support and influence both business and technical stakeholders
- Work alongside key stakeholders, including technology, commercial, marketing and operations
- Proven experience in positively Influencing suppliers
