Product Owner, AVP - Liquids Technology

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Business Overview:

Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTI) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone's businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies.

BXTI is nimble and entrepreneurial - our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development mean that everyone on the team has the opportunity to make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge.

Job Description:

As Product Owner in Credit, you will be responsible for identifying, designing, and implementing solutions and processes to enhance user efficiency, reduce compliance violations and decrease manual intervention. Your primary responsibility will include systems used by front, middle and back office professionals in Liquid Market teams to process trades, settlement, compliance and reconciliation functions, among others. These systems also integrate with a number of internal and external systems. Besides working with the Tech Lead and the scrum teams, you will also work with various business stakeholders, including but not limited to, Portfolio Managers, Traders, Trade Support and other middle-office professionals, business management, and legal and compliance users.

Responsibilities:

• Developing a vision and defining a future landscape for the Product(s)
• Building a roadmap to achieve the vision and socializing it with senior stakeholders
• Writing user stories and epics to build out and groom the backlog, prioritize the backlog, and define releases
• Coordinate and triage production support issues
• Write end user release notes for upcoming releases
• Train new team members as they are onboarded
• Facilitating demos with the end users
• Building relationships with the end users (listed above) so you become their trusted advisor
• Being accessible to the developers for them to ask questions and better understand what they are coding.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years of industry experience working as a Product Owner / Product Manager
• In-depth knowledge of Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology
• Working knowledge of product development architecture
• Ability to prioritize effectively
• Excellent knowledge of user-centered design principles
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Ability to work with large teams
• Understanding of design quality standards

Preferred Experience:

• Asset Management industry experience is preferred
• A basic understanding of some widely used coding languages such as SQL or Java is beneficial

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

$145,000 - $170,000

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

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Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;
• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;
• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;
• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and
• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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