Pay range: USD $126,500.00 - $182,000.00 / Year
Your opportunity
At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together.
Operating our business through clients' eyes and putting them at the center of our decisions, we aim to deliver exceptional experiences to investors and the financial professionals who serve them. Established in 1989, Schwab Asset Management manages over $1.2 trillion in assets and draws on the knowledge and expertise of more than 125 investment professionals (figures as of 6/30/2024). As part of the Charles Schwab organization, we champion the needs of investors and seek to enhance the financial lives of our clients in all we do. More information is available at www.schwabassetmanagement.com.
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The Product Owner - Investment Research Visuals and Charts will be a member of the Investment Research Platform team supporting Schwab Asset Management (SAM) and the Schwab Center for Financial Research (SCFR). Product Owners (POs) at Schwab develop and maintain a vision for their products and are responsible for communicating that vision to the engineering teams and key stakeholders. They specify product features from conception to retirement and work with tech leaders, architects, UX designers, and engineers to ensure that business, quality, and functional goals are met. The PO owns the product development roadmap and ensures that all business stakeholders are aligned at each stage of the development lifecycle. This role requires expertise on both the engineering and business sides of the product and is responsible for delivering high-quality, performant solutions that address the needs of internal users and the broader organization.
If you are ready to apply your energy and expertise to a challenge that spans the domains of investing and technology, this opportunity is for you.
Key Responsibilities
Product Ownership & Strategy
- Develop and maintain the product vision, roadmap and strategy for data visualization and storytelling tools
- Identify and prioritize enhancements based on user feedback, trends, and advancements in capabilities
- Ensure alignment between user needs and product solutions
Stakeholder Collaboration & User Engagement
- Engage with current and prospective stakeholders and users to understand their needs
- Translate business requirements into product features that empower users to turn data into stories
- Partner with technology teams to develop solutions that are functional, performant, and usable
Execution & Delivery
- Lead an agile team to deliver incremental product value, completed in an efficient and timely manner
- Ensure the work from the team is transparent and understood by others outside the team
- Define and track success metrics to measure the impact of visualization tools
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Identify new capabilities and opportunities to improve visual storytelling tools
- Advocate for automation, interactivity and easy to use features
- Push stakeholders and agile team members to shift outside of conventional paths
What you have
To ensure that we fulfill our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience as a product owner/manager collaborating with technology teams and business partners to define strategic visions and roadmaps for IT and business process solutions
- 5+ years of experience in the financial services industry with exposure to investment management
- Experience with Schwab technologies & products
- Demonstrated passion for data visualization, analysis, and publishing tools that transform data into stories
- Knowledge of Agile and/or Scaled Agile practices
- Enthusiasm, curiosity, and empathy to enable you to understand customer needs and relentlessly strive to deliver solutions that meet those needs
- Strong analytical problem solving and strategic thinking skills
- A passion for learning and a spirit of continual self-improvement
In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities
What's in it for you
At Schwab, we're committed to empowering our employees' personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you'll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:
- 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
- Paid parental leave and family building benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Health, dental, and vision insurance