Product Owner, Search

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 10
**The Team**:
S&P Global Market Intelligence is seeking a Product Manager/Owner to join our Search Product team. The team is responsible for the Search functionality on the MI Desktop platform. We are a global, collaborative team that prioritizes open communication, mutual respect, and excellence in all we do. Our goal is to provide users with the best search experience in the financial industry. We facilitate the identification of key companies, funds, and financial entities and support access to critical data and insights for strategic decision making. In so doing, we create novel solution for relevance, search interface development, and backend services that exceed user expectations.
**The Impact**:
As a Product Manager/Owner you will be responsible for the core Search Platform. You will leverage your knowledge/expertise in core Search - Relevance/Ranking, AI/ML, Semantic Search, Query/Content Vectorization etc. and drive increased client satisfaction and adoption of our search platform. You will collaborate with an agile scrum team & lead the timely execution of strategic client impacting feature. You will act as the liaison between the team and stakeholders, end users, business, and customer. You are, essentially, the ‘translator’ of customers’ needs into executable tasks (user stories) for the technology teams. You will help the team ensure a positive client experience by performing audits and analysis on our delivery platforms, presenting your findings and make recommendations. Your role has significant relationships and responsibilities including working across Product Management, Technology and Commercial, with your closest relationship being with the Product Manager.
**Your ultimate goal**: elevate our search platform to better understand the user's query & deliver highly relevant search results right to the users fingertips.
**What’s in it for you**:
Opportunity to work with multiple teams across the MI organization
Exposure to our data delivery platforms/feeds and the overall business
Help drive improvement to products, product usability and client experience
Become a member of one of the Desktop Search team within Market Intelligence.

**Responsibilities**:
Determines, maintains, and prioritizes the product backlog; set expectation for the stories to maximize the value
Translate customer requirements into user stories that can be turned into features / products by the Technology team.
Define stories and prioritize the team backlog to streamline the execution of project priorities, while maintaining the vision and integrity of the product
Engage with Scrum Team on delivery related activities and create a release plan in partnership
Ensure stories are executed within the overall release plan at the MVP and team level
Ensure clear visibility into the work and health reporting across Product Managers and leadership
Build relationships across senior management and key stakeholders to gain buy in and support for additional product and content initiatives
Work with multiple groups to gather and refine requirements and translate them to actionable product goals
Work closely with our Commercial partners to understand the client needs and workflows, our competition, and be able to articulate the value proposition of our products
Analyze and aggregate customer feedback received via surveys, feedback and enhancement requests to help drive the product roadmap.
Participate in regular product and dataset reviews to engage other groups around the offering
**What We’re Looking For**:Required Qualifications**:
BA or BS in Engineering, Accounting, Finance, or related field
2-4 years of product management, technology and related experience in Search (specifically Semantic Search, Vectorization, Relevance/Ranking, ML/AI)
Proven ability to work with and motivate global teams in a diverse and complex organization
Knowledge of Agile/Scrum or SAFe process (Experience as a product manager/owner/Scrum Master of a SCRUM team a plus
Relevant experience resolving complex operational problems requiring strategic and innovative solutions
Hands-on expertise in successful product management functions
Experience developing and/or supporting financial market data services products from concept to commercialization, including understanding and gathering client product requirements
Effective influencing, interpersonal and communication skills in a matrix environment
Strong presentation skills
Ability to work independently, as well as within a team
**Preferred Qualifications**:
Intermediate to Expert knowledge of Search platforms - Relevance/Ranking, ML/AI, Semantic Search, Vectorization, Information Retrieval
Knowledge of the financial data industry and competitive landscape as well as an understanding of market data delivery platforms, messaging services and their relevance
Knowledge and experience working with semi-structured and/or unstructured data and data repositories