Product Associate

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

As a Product Associate, you will be responsible for the product vision and strategies to come up with effective solutions to problems that are **valuable** (our users choose to use them), **viable** (the solution works for the business), **usable** (the users can figure out how to use them), and **feasible** (our engineers have the skills and technology to implement them).

You will be required to quickly learn the constraints of our business from Servicing, Trading, Finance, Operations, Legal, Risk, and Compliance, among others, to succeed. The successful Product Manager must also contribute a deep knowledge of our users and the data about how they engage with our products, coupled with tracking of industry trends and the competitive landscape to provide wholesale Product expertise to the business.

**Responsibilities**:

- **Understand client needs**. Invests in a deep understanding of the business opportunity, client needs, and competitive landscape to inform which initiatives and features to pursue. Participates in user experience research and integrates user feedback to uncover client needs and to inform feature definition so that it is relevant and useful.
- **Define strategy, operating model, and roadmap to achieve vision and business goals**. Owns and drives the product roadmap to meet business goals and provide a leading client and product experience. Partners with developers and UX designers to deliver an intuitive and differentiated user experience. Prioritizes and defines each feature to meet client and business goals, while also meeting control requirements.
- **Lead the product development lifecycle** by defining requirements (in partnership with other teams), ensuring sprint inputs (e.g. designs and requirements) and outputs (e.g. tested code) are as envisioned, and providing direction and smart trade off decisions for the scrum team. Collaborates with other product and requirement owners and designers to deliver end-to-end product and experience. Partners with Technology to triage issues end-to-end until full resolution is achieved, then communicate issue resolution to appropriate parties and escalate issue as necessary to ensure proper response.
- **Establish approaches to pilot/rollout new capabilities**, including objective/scope, communication, training/support, and feedback/metrics.
- **Embody true “client-obsession”** in identifying and leveraging user data, key performance metrics, industry trends, and varying forms of client and internal feedback to shape our designs and product roadmap.
- **Develop and maintains deep relationships with delivery partners** including senior leaders, Digital, Technology, Design, Operations, CAO, Client Service, and control functions across each region.

**Required qualifications, capabilities and skills**
- Must be a strong problem solver and effective communicator with a curious mindset and underlying passion for digital.
- Previous product management or related experience required, with proven track record of delivery.
- Ability to define and execute product roadmap and business models.
- Ability to prioritize projects and efforts considering many variables including business and client needs, competitive and industry trends, resource and funding availability, and internal trade-offs.
- Ability to partner with cross-functional teams at all levels for effective execution in an agile manner.
- Ability to manage tight delivery timelines and execute under pressure.
- Strong commitment to professional responsibilities, a degree of self-motivation suitable for a “start-up” team, and superior work ethic with adaptability to push beyond standard hours during busy periods to meet tight deadlines
- Minimum 5 years of Product Management/ Product owner experience.

**ABOUT US**

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs f