The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm with more than $65 billion in investment capital as of March 1, 2025, and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Since our founding in 1988, our firm has earned an international reputation for successful investing based on innovation, careful risk management, and the quality and depth of our staff. We have a significant presence in the world's capital markets, investing in a wide range of companies and financial instruments in both developed and developing economies.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, analytical, and resourceful product manager to join our Investment Services Technology team in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, or Gurugram. This team handles technology for finance and operations, such as post-trade activities, portfolio and fund accounting, and investor relations. The role offers a dynamic environment. We aim to improve our technology for better efficiency and scalability. The ideal candidate should understand financial markets and have experience in product management and process optimization.
WHAT YOU'LL DO DAY-TO-DAY:
You will work closely with business stakeholders, global software development teams, and technology leadership to design and deliver impactful Middle Office Technology solutions. You will serve as a senior point of coordination across initiatives spanning securities lifecycle management, trade booking, corporate actions, and reference data management. You will understand stakeholder needs, define product visions and technical requirements, prioritize roadmaps, and lead large scale initiatives while supporting existing applications. You will balance and prioritize competing demands to ensure solutions meet immediate business needs while aligning with long term strategic and architectural goals. You will collaborate broadly with middle and back office operations, technology teams, and global partners to drive a unified and effective technology strategy.
WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
The ideal candidate should hold-
Basic qualifications:
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, a related field, or an MBA, with 8+ years of product management experience within financial services
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex operational workflows into clear product and technical requirements and communicate decisions and trade-offs effectively to executive-level stakeholders
- Proven ability to lead discovery and problem framing through detailed current-state process mapping (including exceptions, handoffs, and controls) and to design scalable, risk-aligned future-state workflows
- Demonstrated strength in stakeholder leadership and facilitation, including leading cross-functional workshops, resolving competing priorities, and driving alignment between enterprise standardization and local optimization
- A robust track record of owning product vision, strategy, and roadmaps for operational platforms, balancing near-term business needs with long-term modernization
- Hands-on execution discipline, including roadmap ownership, dependency management, and delivery governance across global teams in dynamic environments
- Experience translating stakeholder and process insights into prioritized product backlogs and sequenced delivery plans, with a focus on quantifying impact
- A proven ability to partner effectively with global engineering teams to deliver and continuously improve workflow-driven solutions in production environments
Preferred qualifications:
- Exposure to investment management or fund accounting domain
- Experience in Middle Office and Trade Accounting & Operations for hedge funds and/or investment banks
Interested candidates can apply through our website: https://www.deshawindia.com/recruit/jobs/Ads/Link/LdPMInvSerTechJan26
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The Firm offers excellent benefits, a casual, collegial working environment, and an attractive compensation package. For further information about our recruitment process, including how applicant data will be processed, please visit https://www.deshawindia.com/careers
Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of sex, race, colour, caste, creed, religion, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.
