Real-Time API Product Manager - Team Leader

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Posted Jul 9, 2020 - Requisition No. 83815

Bloomberg's Enterprise Data continues to be a market leader and the enterprise data provider of choice for the financial services industry. Our offering includes market leading data, analytics and data delivery via a fully managed platform. Our committed customer base appreciates the quality of our content, completeness of our coverage, data delivery, technology and high touch client service model.

Our Team:

The Bloomberg Real-Time Solutions team provides best in class data and analytics solutions for front office use cases. Speed, coverage, confidence, and consistency of data is key to our continued success. With a rich library of API based services, we have the ability to address all of our client’s challenges within the front office across multiple asset classes.

Our team is responsible for identifying, creating and designing Enterprise Data Real-Time solutions leveraging Bloomberg's proprietary analytics, industry-leading data and partnerships across the globe.

What’s the Role?

The business is looking for a highly focused Product Manager Team Leader to join the Enterprise Data Real-Time team.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a proven understanding of enterprise data and the shifting demands of our buy/sell side clients. A successful candidate will be responsible for enhancing and expanding our API product offerings and understanding our client workflow with a view to increasing client adoption and data usage. A successful candidate will be a self-starter who can expertly establish connections and engage with our client base.

We’ll trust you to:

  • Perform market research and competitive analysis, as well as analyze technology trends to identify new business opportunities and contribute to the group’s overall business plan and strategy
  • Perform client use case analysis with a focus on creating impactful items and datasets for development that are aligned with our client needs that help to drive increased usage
  • Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to define and scope product requirements and functional specifications that reflect input from multiple parties
  • Coordinate project execution and make feature/schedule/cost tradeoffs near completion by gathering early customer feedback
  • Deliver new product information and product updates to stakeholders (e.g. sales, marketing, engineering, support functions and clients)
  • Maintain regular contact with industry participants, clients, auditors, regulators, etc. and present at client seminars, industry conferences and other events

You’ll need to have:

  • Familiarity with BLPAPI products including DAPI and SAPI
  • A good understanding of request/response and streaming data paradigms
  • Familiarity with Excel and how Terminal users want to consume data to support their desktop workflows
  • A desire to develop in a leadership capacity by running and nurturing a small team of product managers
  • A passion to grow adoption through a combination of product innovation and feature enhancement as well sales engagement and marketing activity
  • Self-motivation; you’re driven by innovation and idea sharing
  • Analytical skills = you’re a problem solver with an ability to deconstruct client problems with a data driven approach when making a business case for resources, product development and enhancement and getting management buy-in
  • The capability of fostering relationships with new and existing clients as well building an internal network that fosters collaboration and build on a strong culture of team work.
  • Bachelor's degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, business management, or other related field

We’d like to see:

  • A minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Product Manager

If this sounds like you:

Apply if you think we're a good match and we'll get in touch with you to let you know next steps. In the meantime, check out http://www.bloomberg.com/professional.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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