Product Manager

FINRA’s Office of the Chief Data Officer is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead the Unstructured Data Management (UDM) platform. UDM is a strategic initiative that will transform how FINRA discovers, organizes, and leverages its regulatory documents. This is a foundational capability that will accelerate GenAI adoption, enable cross-functional document intelligence, and unlock insights from unstructured data at enterprise scale.

As the UDM Product Manager, you will work in collaboration with senior Product and Engineering leaders to define the product vision, strategy, and execution across a multi-phase roadmap. You will partner with engineering, business stakeholders, and technology teams across FINRA to build a platform that makes mission-critical documents discoverable, contextual, and reusable enterprise-wide.

Essential Job Functions:

User Insight & Product Definition Develops solid understanding of the business and product areas within focus, as well as the relevant data that can be used to inform key decisions

Defines the product and identifies gaps and user needs by creating a vision, strategy, and requirements documents for a product

Utilizes available data to identify user needs

Performs experiments and participates in primary research to uncover additional user value

Product Portfolio Management Develops, manages, and owns the product roadmap at the product level

Makes trade-off decisions for a product

Demonstrates expertise within their product area Builds partnerships with relevant stakeholder teams

Coordinates with interdependent teams

Builds and leverages solid working relationships with business and product stakeholders, UI/UX, architecture, and technology teams to facilitate product and user success

Participates in the intake process for their product domain

Product Planning & Prioritization Leads the product planning process by developing requirements documents (user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases) for a product or product release

Maintains a prioritized backlog based on defined user value, aligning with product strategy and resource capacity; uses data and analytics to prioritize the product backlog appropriately

Works closely with UI/UX to set the direction for the design of the user experience of a product

Determines release goals, prioritization, implementation, and iteration plans for a product according to user value

Product Development Facilitates the development process by reviewing demos with the technology team and validating acceptance criteria for the product

Provides UX/UI approval for the assigned product

Tracks development work and identifying bugs at a product level

Identifies issues that will keep the product from delivering on time or at the right level of quality, assesses alternatives to resolve, builds a plan for resolution, and communicates to leadership

Launch

Leads product launches by working with relevant stakeholders to develop launch plans for a product

Identifies issues and blockers that may delay the launch or impede the success of a product, and presents alternatives for resolution to leadership

Coordinates formal UAT where necessary

Develops product documentation and training materials for users in support of product launches

Tracks and reports on product launch metrics, utilizing feedback to drive associated actions and product iteration

Leads post-launch reviews and drives incorporation of feedback in future product releases

Operate

Works with internal and external teams and users to identify, classify, and resolve product-level user issues

Identifies new and innovative methods and metrics for tracking product success, works with the technology team to improve reports and monitoring

Works with stakeholder teams to actively monitor metrics

Tracks performance trends and gathers user feedback to determine product-level gaps, development opportunities, and if necessary, product end-of-life plans

Represents team in product-level discussions with stakeholders

Attends business reviews, supplying product/feature results as necessary; provides input into business cases when new products/features are being developed

Team Development & Continuous Improvement…