Job Description:
As a Squad Leader within the Equity Portfolio Management Product Area, you will blend your interest in investment management with our technology expertise to deliver an outstanding user experience for our Global PM team. As the product owner you are the end-to-end gatekeeper of the squad mission, strategy, and execution associated with delivering on strategic priorities. You will influence the broader strategic decisions and roadmaps, set and refine the squad mission, and bring together a team of chapter members to execute on user prioritized product improvements.
Constant refinement of the “what” and “when” work will be performed through ongoing planning and prioritization of a product backlog. By empowering squad members, you will create a culture of working iteratively, innovating through testing and experimentation, and learning from failure while celebrating success. By staying connected to industry trends, you can bring the latest thinking to our squads to enhance our product solutions.
This position will be located in Galway as the primary home base with a combination of both in office and remote working.
The Team
You work in partnership with Product Area Leads across our domain, other squad leads, scrum masters, and chapter leaders aligned to your squad(s). By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors, you will sustain and evolve our innovative agile environment.
The Expertise You Have
- Creative, collaborative, results-oriented problem solver with experience in software development lifecycle.
- Proven experience working with Agile teams and a detailed understanding of SCRUM principles (business analysis, story writing, acceptance testing, end user certification).
- Knowledge of the investment process is preferred.
- Agile experience required.
- Jira and JiraAlign experience is beneficial but not required.
- SCRUM certifications are advantageous.
The Skills You Bring
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 7-10+ years working experience with a majority in investment management
- A data-focused approach to understanding customer needs, translating strategic objectives into action, and prioritizing to improve the value delivered.
- An ability to grasp sophisticated product features and break them into clear and concise stories with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria and optimally communicate these.
- A strong focus on execution and an ability to identify, communicate and remove impediments to progress.
- A capability to lead, influence, and empower colleagues (both on-shore and off-shore) without formal authority, and a track record of building high-performing teams.
- Encouraging continuously improvement and an agile way of working, adopting servant leadership behaviors and approach.
- Ability to establish and maintain unquestioning relationships as you work collaboratively across Fidelity to deliver business outcomes and seek out the expertise of colleagues to advise on your approach.
- An intellectual curiosity that champions a culture of continuous learning, mentoring and coaching
The Value You Deliver
- Defining, refining, and communicating the squads' mission and roadmap to empower the team and build partner support and alignment
- Anticipating, discovering through ongoing interaction with, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as their voice and guide execution of the team
- Bringing new solutions to our users on a regular cadence, retiring obsolete solutions and maintaining our outstanding trading platform.
- Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines.
- Defining squad objectives and measuring outcomes against these, while delivering agreed upon business, technology, and people results.
- Collaborating and coordinating with chapter leaders and scrum masters to build squad capacity and capability and enabling squad member growth, development and learning.
- Finding opportunities to bring new technologies/solutions to deliver innovative solutions to meet our business partner objectives.
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At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.
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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 working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).
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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 [email protected], or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.
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Benefits that adapt to everything life sends your way
401(k) with company match
Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
16-week maternity leave & 12-week parental leave
Student loan assistance
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Committed to Professional Development
At Fidelity, we are constantly adapting to the changing needs of our customers, new technologies, and better ways of working. And we empower our employees to do the same, with an emphasis on developing skills and connections that will help propel you forward in your career while being able to make an impact for Fidelity’s customers around the world.
We offer a wide range of options for professional development including online, in-person, and mentor driven solutions. Special interest and networking groups are also part of our culture of empowerment, personal and professional enrichment, diversity and inclusion, and knowledge sharing.
Continuing Education & Training
- Assess, build, and align your development plan through resources like our skill-building classroom and online courses.
- Video-based training for technology, leadership, management & more.
- Ongoing skills development and coaching opportunities.
- Paid training with a facilitator who is dedicated to your onboarding and will track and evaluate your progress, giving you strategies to improve.
- A range of talent development programs to support career mobility.
Mentoring
- Utilize the skills of experienced leaders to enrich your career.
- Dedicated mentors to help you grow into new areas of Fidelity’s business as you develop new skills.
- An open atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
- Opportunities to pay it forward, sharing the knowledge you develop and as you help others define how they want their career to take shape.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
"Fidelity believes in, and is committed to, fair and equitable treatment for every associate and customer, and to creating a safe and respectful environment, in which everyone is treated with kindness, compassion and respect." Abby Johnson | Chairman and CEO Fidelity Investments
At Fidelity, we are committed to building an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging that will attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce.
Fidelity’s ten affinity groups are self-organized groups of employees with common interests in areas such as race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, or who share similar interests based on similar sets of experiences.
These Employee Resource Groups and Special Interest Groups are models of inclusion for Fidelity. They’re also a powerful form of engagement and development and can provide a pathway to visible leadership roles. Our affinity groups make a large contribution on the business, helping to ensure our products and services are delivered in a welcoming and equitable environment.
- Over 22K employees participate in an affinity group.
- Over 1,400 affinity group members volunteered for Fidelity Cares in 2020.
- 74% increase in affinity group memberships over the last three years.
Giving Back to Our Communities
Throughout Fidelity, you’ll find a genuine commitment to social responsibility – where we strive to make an impact for customers, while also making an impact on the world.
Fidelity Cares
- Provides associates with opportunities to actively volunteer and share their talents.
- Hosts numerous company-wide volunteer events (in-person and virtual).
- Partners with nonprofit organizations to support our local communities.
- More than 12,000 associates donate time annually – from interns to SVPs.
- Impact includes refurbishing schools, donating books and supplies, and teaching financial literacy.
Fidelity Charitable®
- Created to make it easy for people to support charitable organizations they care about.
- Helped deliver $7.3 billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2019.
- Supported more than 300,000 unique charities around the world.
- Since its inception, more than $42 billion has been given to public charities.