Job Description:
The Role
As a Squad Leader, you blend product expertise with a passion for delivering results in an agile format. You will work on the Stock Plan Services reporting offering and will partner with other leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions and roadmaps, define the requirements, and bring the squad together to deliver specific results. You will ensure your products or services are available, stable, performant, and supported when required and that related cost and maintenance is managed. You will ensure alignment on the 'what' and 'when' of the work performed by the squad through ongoing planning and prioritization, to enable the squad to work iteratively, innovate when appropriate, celebrate successes, and learn from failures. You will also be committed to maintaining and developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role.
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You will work in partnership with the Product Area Leader, team members, and chapter leaders. By role modeling and promoting agile and Fidelity leadership principles, you will promote and sustain an innovative agile culture.
- Defining, refining, and communicating your team's mission to squad members and business partners to empower and rally support
- Anticipating, discovering, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as the voice of the clients and guide execution of the squad
- Measuring performance through established critical metrics and deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results
- Inspecting and evaluating progress, and removing impediments for your squad
- Defining, presenting, and evaluating results against agreed acceptance criteria
- Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines
The Expertise We're Looking For
- 5+ years of related product management experience, systems development, product development, and/or project/product management
- Agile experience required
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- Experience with equity compensation and/or accounting beneficial
- You take a data-driven approach to understanding client needs, translate strategic goals into action, and prioritize to maximize value delivered
- You have a continuous improvement approach
- You are energized by working collaboratively to deliver agreed business outcomes, drawing on the expertise of colleagues to inform the approach and remove impediments to making progress
- You are capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building high-performing teams
- You are intellectually curious and model a culture of learning and coaching
The Team
Stock Plan Services (SPS) provides companies with outstanding administration for their equity compensation programs, including stock option, restricted stock, employee stock purchase, stock appreciate and performance plans. SPS Product Development supports the business and technology work streams that deliver against approved initiatives including new products for emerging markets and improvements to existing products.
Certifications:
Category:
Product Management
Fidelity's hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.