Senior IT Product Manager

The Bank for International Settlements, BIS is hiring a Senior IT Product Manager within the Banking Technology department.

This role is based in Basel; however, as an international organization, we can hire globally and welcome applications from candidates of all nationalities located anywhere in the world. Relocation support is available for the successful candidate and their dependent family members.

This job is a three‑year fixed‑term position.

The deadline for application is Sunday 11 January 2026, end of day.

To define and drive the strategic vision, development, and lifecycle management of their assigned product(s), ensuring alignment with the bank’s strategic objectives. The role involves leading cross‑functional initiatives, mentoring team members, and coordinating with external stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions.

This role focuses on product management with additional responsibilities in business analysis to identify business needs and develop tools for pricing financial instruments, hedging, trading, portfolio management, and related activities to ensure the delivery of high‑quality solutions and smooth system operation, including production support.

• Lead cross‑functional projects while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver high‑quality solutions.
• Develop and implement a product strategy and roadmap that aligns with the organization’s objectives.
• Contribute to an international and inclusive environment that fosters innovation and teamwork.

• Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with stakeholder objectives, managing resources and budgets, conducting market analysis and user research, and driving continuous improvements while maintaining technical consistency and supporting business needs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify business needs, analyse business processes, and document requirements for pricing financial instruments, hedging, trading, portfolio management and the automation of operating procedures. Define acceptance criteria and create process flows or use cases to support system improvements and resolve complex and ambiguous challenges ensuring business requirements are effectively met.
• Act as the primary liaison for stakeholders to coordinate changes and initiatives and provide regular progress updates while clearly communicating the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Lead and mentor agile cross‑functional teams, providing guidance and fostering collaboration to achieve product goals.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of software releases and upgrades, enhance system reliability through Dev Ops and test automation, ensure compliance with IT and cybersecurity policies, assume contract manager role for vendor relationships and procurement activities, and drive operational efficiency with best practices and compliance.
• Provide production support, including on‑call coverage during evenings, weekends and service windows, managing incident resolution processes, liaising with technical teams to troubleshoot issues, and ensuring timely communication with stakeholders during service disruptions.
• Represent the organization in discussions with external stakeholders to advance key initiatives.
• Inform the Line Manager of major technology trends relevant to the business area for input into IT strategy. Keep the Line Manager informed of progress and difficulties in the discharge of duties through regular meetings, status reports, or other mutually agreed‑upon methods.
• Organise own work and, when required, help set objectives for the area of responsibility ensuring measurable contributions to the department’s success. Maintain records of time spent on various activities in accordance with departmental procedures.
• Ensure that resources are used in an effective manner within the designated area, in cooperation with the Line Manager. Propose investments to the Line Manager and ensure cost‑effectiveness within the area of responsibility.

• A master’s degree in information management, computer science, finance, or equivalent…