You will also align a unified product backlog to business strategy and outcomes, in partnership with technology, and other functional leaders as needed. You will manage squads that deliver on critical initiatives and products across the SPS Mainframe Recordkeeping platform. You will have oversight of the full lifecycle and manage dependencies, determine how to organize scrum teams and create clear accountability at the product level. You will maintain a comprehensive view of the initiatives and products and understand the complex ecosystem underlying delivery. You will also be committed to maintaining and developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role.

• Managing Squad Leaders who are focused on delivery of the product capabilities and features.
• Defining, refining, and communicating the 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.
• Partnering with technology and infrastructure teams for planning and managing upgrades.
• Inspecting and evaluating progress while removing impediments for your squads.
• Defining, presenting, and evaluating results against agreed acceptance criteria.
• Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines.
• Ensure a consistent, clear set of standard delivery routines based on stage of product lifecycle including contributing to quarterly reviews and planning.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 10+ years of deep technical and functional experience and must possess high level analytical and coaching skills
• 5+ years of product management experience, preferably in a fin-tech focused company
• Experience working with IBM Mainframe teams
• Knowledge of Stock Plan Services recordkeeping and administration
• Experience engaging and influencing multiple stakeholders across products/platforms with competing priorities and key dependencies
• Advanced level of knowledge of multiple disciplines required to perform at a senior level.
• Experience managing technology platform resiliency and security related activities such as Audit, Disaster Recovery, etc.
• Familiarity with modern test-driven development, CI-CD and DevOps practices.
• Experience working on platform modernization
• Consistent track record of developing and coaching talent
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred
• Financial services experience preferred
• Agile experience preferred
• People management experience preferred
• Ability to take a data-driven approach to understanding client needs, translate strategic goals into action, and prioritize to enhance value delivered
• 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
• Capability to lead, influence, and motivate colleagues without formal authority, and a track record of building high-performing teams
• Strong program management and communication skills
• You are intellectually curious and model a culture of learning and coaching

The Team

Stock Plan Services 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.

You will work in partnership with the Product Area Leader, development squads, Chapter leaders, and your key partners to define the highest priority work. While promoting agile and demonstrating the Fidelity leadership principles, you will promote and sustain an innovative agile culture.

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Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients' money.

Join Us

At Fidelity, you'll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples' lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don't need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity-we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you've always imagined.

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 all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com.