Assc Dir-Product Manager

Moody's Analytics (MA is a fast-growing subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (ticker: MCO. Separate from the rating agency (Moody's Investor Service, Moody's Analytics serves some of the largest banks, asset managers, insurers, pension funds and non-finance corporations. We combine technology, data, modelling and thought leadership to help our customers measure, manage and monitor their risk. For more information on Moody's Analytics, visit .

Who we are

The Predictive Analytics Operating Unit within Moody's Analytics provides clients with accelerated risk insights and early warning indicators to reliably assess the financial resilience of over 400 million public and private companies globally. For more information on, visit https://edfx.com/

Within Predictive Analytics, the Product Strategy team is responsible for coordinating with sales, research, engineering, and data teams to create and deliver on the Predictive Analytics roadmap. Our focus is to design and build features that meet our client's needs in a timely manner while creating a scalable and high performing technology stack. In this capacity the team is responsible for (among other things

• Defining the product roadmap for our suite of software products
• Understanding market demands and ensuring solution designs meet these demands
• Maintaining a project timeline. Identifying and mitigating project risks
• Define release scope, Prioritize and schedule defect fixes
• Stakeholder management & Communication on the roadmap

The Opportunity

We're looking for a driven and focused individual to lead product development initiatives for our industry-leading credit risk and valuation platform. This particular position will be responsible for contributing or leading feature focused squads that will be responsible for the full end-to-end (from conception to design to delivery lifecycle of a specific capability/feature being added to the edf-x application:

As product manager with a squad, the key responsibilities will include

• Collaborate with business leads, sales teams, and existing clients to understand the market and ensure our software and data meets our client's demands
• Build out detailed feature specifications targeted at research and engineering teams
• Work directly with Software QA and Data Quality teams on testing approach and remediation of defects found during development cycles. Act as the final go, no-go decision point prior to releases.
• Develop ideas and business justification for operational or technical improvements

Qualifications and skills:

• Direct experience building user specifications for software solutions required
• Proven ability to independently advance projects while effectively collaborating with a multidisciplinary team
• Experience in the financial industry, specifically in fintech or working on analytics driven applications, strongly preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills required. Specifically experience in product demonstrations, training, and managing feedback sessions.
• Prior working experience in product management, project management, PMO
• Familiarity (user level with API, Excel Add-ins and working with data feeds.
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and work to tight deadlines in a fast paced, changing environment.