## **Job Title: Product Manager (Commercial) – Collateral Products**

#### **Job Purpose**
We are looking for an ambitious and experienced Product Manager from the capital markets collateral space who is passionate about building products that clients love. As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for driving product focus and collaboration, with a constant focus on delivering organizational Objectives & Key Results (OKRs). You will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment, working with cross-functional teams to design, build, and roll out products that deliver the company’s vision and strategy.

#### **Education**
Postgraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent field preferred.

#### **Key Accountabilities**
- Understand the market, industry, and competitive landscape, and champion the creation of clear and effective product positioning statements while generating new ideas that improve client experience and drive long-term growth.
- Establish and drive the product strategy and vision.
- Define and manage the product roadmap, and continuously manage expectations with all relevant stakeholders.
- Own the product lifecycle within your product area through ideation, prototyping, development, launch, and iteration of new capabilities and features.
- Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes; scope and prioritize activities based on business and client impact; and work closely with business development, engineering, and operations teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resource utilization.
- Drive prioritization and trade-off decisions, and provide support for executive decision-making.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, QA, production, sales, customer success teams, and other stakeholders as required to ensure quick time-to-market and optimal resource utilization.
- Support product training and other sales enablement activities.

#### **Qualifications, Experience, and Skills**
- At least 8 years of experience as a Product Manager with a proven track record of delivering products with significant business impact.
- Experience in Financial Services or FinTech, preferably in capital markets Collateral Management, including knowledge of:
  - Custodian banks, tri-party agents, clearing institutions, and CCPs.
  - Eligibility and optimization of collateral.
  - SWIFT, CREST, and CSDs such as Clearstream and Euroclear, as well as trade repositories.
- Good understanding of the market forces at work—including incumbents, competitors, coopetitors, emerging technologies, the digital landscape, changing business models, regulatory and legal frameworks, and geopolitics—that impact financial markets.
- Passion for building great client experiences through a deep understanding of user needs and turning insights into compelling solutions.
- Excellent analytical skills and experience working with both qualitative insights and quantitative data to drive product decisions.
- Experience in data analytics and modeling, visual design, and communicating information in non-technical terms.
- Strong problem-solving skills, a willingness to roll up your sleeves and deliver, and a proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle.
- Experience with and knowledge of rapid and iterative software development methodologies.
- Experience collaborating with engineers, designers, and other partners to build, ship, and iterate market-leading propositions.

#### **About Baton Systems**
Baton Systems is a global FinTech company taking a fresh approach to post-trade processing. By digitally transforming the industry’s critical market infrastructure with innovative, blockchain-inspired solutions, we empower banks to take control of and address the most critical risk, capital, and liquidity issues impacting post-trade today.

#### **About Baton People**
Our team of smart, energized, and passionate people is at the forefront of the revolution now taking place across the entire post-trade process. Founded in 2016 by Silicon Valley technologists and capital market specialists, Baton continues to attract exceptional talent. To learn more about our leadership team, [click here](/content/about/#team/index.html).

**Job Type:** [Full Time](/content/job-type/full-time/index.html)
**Job Location:** [Chennai](/content/job-location/chennai/index.html)
**Job Level:** [Product Team](/content/job-level/product-team/index.html)
**Experience:** [8+ years experience as a product manager](/content/experience/8-years-experience-as-a-product-manager/index.html)
**Additional Skills:** [Management](/content/additional-skills/management/index.html)
**No. of Position:** [2](/content/no-of-position/2/index.html)