Product Lead - Management & General Accounting

About the Job

Arcesium is a Financial Technology and Professional Services Firm, delivering solutions to some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, and institutional asset managers. Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client's ecosystem, Arcesium's cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex tasks.

Building on a platform developed and tested by one of the world's leading investment and technology development firms, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium launched as an independent company in 2015. Arcesium received additional equity backing from a second seed client, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the world's largest discretionary allocator to hedge funds. In January 2020, J.P. Morgan made a strategic investment in the company. Arcesium supports more than $675+ billion in assets with a staff of over 1650+ software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.

We are looking for an exceptionally talented resource to join one of our cross-functional product teams in our Hyderabad/Bangalore/Gurgaon office for an Individual contributor role. This product team is responsible for building the core accounting product offering of our platform. This position offers opportunity to define and design the next generation of products on our platform, which is used by some of the most sophisticated hedge funds in the world; and to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry.

What you'll do:

• Carry the product/feature from concept to creation
• Brainstorm product/feature and its value proposition to our client base
• Distill the vision into documents such as product roadmap and product/feature specification via deep dives into domain, gathering requirements and/or business analysis
• Work closely with the engineers/architects to translate the Product Specification to design, and then to the product itself
• Prepare comprehensive business test cases/beds to aid the engineering process
• Rigorously and continuously evaluate the progress of product/feature-in-flight by leveraging the created test cases/beds and ensure compliance to the product/feature specification and the vision
• Prepare prototypes using Python and AI
• Track and question risks/assumptions
• Proactively escalate issues and mitigate execution risks
• Be involved in conducting competitor analysis

What you'll need:

• 4+ years of experience working in the front, middle and/or back-office space with a minimum of 2+ years of experience in product management

• Technical skills needed
• Understanding of Java: Familiarity with Java concepts to effectively communicate and collaborate with the development team.
• Knowledge of Distributed Systems: Understanding of distributed systems concepts to grasp project requirements and challenges.
• Database Awareness: General knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases to contribute effectively to data-related discussions.
• Experience working closely with engineers.
• Outstanding academic background & passion to work in a high-tech software development environment.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Critical thinking and the ability to articulate standpoints/ideas and influence stakeholders
• Ability to multitask and manage multiple lines of execution with attention to detail and quality
• A healthy combination of resourcefulness, domain expertise, creativity and execution prowess
• Candidate should have a graduate degree in software engineering
• Advanced knowledge in field of Trade Accounting and operations or Certifications in financial domain such as MBA, CFA will be an added advantage.
• Handson experience on using and integrating various AI tools for building out products will be an added advantage.

Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just a legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from extraordinarily well qualified individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.