What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Product, Finance Data Platforms-Executive Director position at JPMorgan Chase?
Harness your technical and strategic expertise to shape innovative solutions and bridge product capabilities with real-world challenges! Reporting to the Head of Consumer & Community Banking (CCB) Finance Product, you will lead a global product and analytical solutions team of 45 to promote the planning, sequencing, and implementation of these initiatives in partnership with Technology and Design to deliver end-state transformation based on value, impact, and time to market.
As a Director of Product on the Chase Finance Product team, you will be responsible for leading a Data Platform team and managing a team of Data Owners. You will leverage your deep understanding of analytics and forecasting platforms and tooling capabilities to better serve your stakeholders across Finance. You will define and deliver the strategic vision for the modernization path of the product and building data & analytics platforms that scale with our business. Your team will directly manage applications and influence the use of Essbase, Databricks and the Finance Data Mart, ThoughtSpot, Tableau & Alteryx and the Finance Insights Portal, Anaplan, Atoti, Prophecy, GenAI for Finance use cases, and multiple user-facing portals that help manage financial data. You will also manage the intersection of the platform, tooling strategy synergies and requirements with Finance, Data & analytics, Risk, and the Chief Data & Analytics Office for the Firm which also cuts across technology groups.
Job Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the engineering, architecture design, analytics and other cross-functional stakeholders to define vision and roadmap across a suite of platform products
- Drive CCB Finance Data strategy and lead a team of centralized data owners that support other Finance products and the OCFO data product and catalog strategy
- Integrate data analytics, product usage metrics, user experience research and stakeholder feedback, competitive and market analysis, and company goals to drive prioritization of product initiatives
- Provide clear vision and scope documentation needed to support high JIRA initiative and epic quality for prioritized backlog management as well as driving accountability and outcomes with Design through the discovery process
- Drive product reviews, strategy sessions and other key cadences with leadership to provide progress on roadmap and streamline decision making
- Manage internal legal, risk, controls and compliance review processes to ensure a strong control environment for product launches
- Actively manage a portal containing ~375 dashboards used on a variety of frequencies, encouraging adoption and streamlining of reports over time
- Own and drive transformation of the Essbase strategy of over 600 cubes used in planning & analysis and financial analysis activities
- Drive best-in-class practices for product management, with a focus on optimizing collaboration model across key partners, maturation of agile practices and continued refinement of end-to-end product lifecycle delivery with a focus on measurable efficiency improvement
- Manage agile processes for 6 Tech teams practicing scrum and kanban
- Drive a culture of ownership and iterative delivery, customer centric thinking, and leadership that promotes diversity and inclusion that ultimately motivates a strong cross-functional team
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Seasoned manager with at least 10 years of experience within product, data or technology organizations that has a proven track record of driving technical and employee facing product solutions across the lifecycle from discovery to release management and user adoption
- 6 years of experience managing products, ideally in the data space
- Structured, analytical thinker with ability to analyze opportunities, recommend solutions, and communicate effectively with senior leadership
- Strong influencing, partnership and collaboration skills to drive cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated ability to manage tight delivery timelines
- Hands-on experience with Essbase, SQL, Python, Databricks and other data platform related development languages, tools, and applications
- Positive, team-oriented attitude and leadership skills
- Experience with Corporate Finance personas of CFO, Planning & Analysis, and Controllers functions
