Product Lead

Company Overview
Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow's challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.

Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.

We are looking for an exceptionally talented professional to join one of our cross-functional product teams for an Individual contributor role. This product team is responsible for building the investor allocation product offering, PerformA. This position offers opportunity to define and design the next generation of products on our platform, which is used by some of the most sophisticated hedge funds in the world; and to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry.

What You'll Do

• Work closely with the engineers/architects to translate the Product Specification to design, and then to the product itself
• Prepare comprehensive business test cases/beds to aid the engineering process
• Rigorously and continuously evaluate the progress of product/feature-in-flight by leveraging the created test cases/beds and ensure compliance to the product/feature specification and the vision
• Prepare prototypes using Python and AI
• Track and question risks/assumptions
• Proactively escalate issues and mitigate execution risks

What You'll Need

• 6 to 9 years of experience working in the front, middle and/or back-office space with minimum 3 years of Fund Accounting/Investor Allocation experience

• Technical skills needed:

• Familiarity with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle

• Strong grasp of programming fundamentals in a high-level language like Java, Python, or Javascript for simple scripting, quick prototyping or understanding code reviews. Not requiring deep development expertise, but enough to engage meaningfully with engineers
• Knowledge of core concepts like APIs, microservices, and basic programming paradigms
• Working knowledge of databases, data modeling, and basics of SQL
• Basic understanding of cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure) and how they impact scalability and deployment
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs in product features

• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new systems, platforms, or tools as required by the project

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

• Critical thinking and the ability to articulate standpoints/ideas and influence stakeholders
• Graduate degree in software engineering
• Advanced knowledge in field of Fund Accounting and Investor Allocations will be an added advantage

Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just a legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from extraordinarily well qualified individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.