ESG News/Research Product Manager

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Posted Feb 6, 2023 - Requisition No. 100345

The ESG product team is responsible for coordinating ESG product development efforts across Bloomberg with the goal of improving the terminal experience related to ESG investment workflow and designing enterprise data and products that will result in direct revenue. This product group coordinates across the Bloomberg business and functional areas, including various Core product and engineering teams, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Intelligence, Engineering, Global Data, Enterprise Data, Desktop Build Group, Analytics and Sales.
The team is looking to hire an ESG News & Research product manager. This product manager's effort will include improved ESG news/research classification and discoverability on the Terminal, creation of a proprietary ESG News Sentiment scores product as well as a Controversies product, using AI for better insights. The product manager will work with both Bloomberg and third party data, news and research.

We’ll trust you to:

Define and communicate the strategy/vision:

  • Develop a business plan for Bloomberg’s ESG News offering with clear success metrics
  • Regular and consistent communication to ensure strategic alignment across key team members
  • Undertake ‘deeper dive’ assessments in ESG topics
  • Build and refine rules for enhanced ESG category tracking capabilities
  • Clear understanding of various user types and workflows in sustainable finance solutions today
  • Insight into the competitive landscape
  • Establish relationships across the market, with financial market practitioners, policy makers etc.

Execution of product:

  • Analysis of existing news and research capabilities in ESG with a clear vision on how to help users draw insights from these products
  • Responsible for setting priorities of work, making trade-offs across priorities, and understanding constraints (technical and resource)
  • Provide data and engineering team with business context and strategy, managing deliverables, as well as run detailed refinement sessions
  • Review and refine strategy based on results vs initial success metrics

Collaboration & Communication:

  • Identify and implement product development processes where/when appropriate, that encourage close partnership amongst various groups
  • Partner with News and Research product, the Newsroom, Engineering and Data operations to ensure key results and objectives are well understood, and align with the overall business goals
  • Work with Marketing and Sales to promote our product to clients

You’ll need to have:

  • Understanding of how ESG news/controversies impact the market, what news aligns to materiality, and how regulatory & voluntary frameworks can impact the behavior of investment activities
  • Experience implementing a product or solution end to end, from vision to execution
  • An analytical ability to curate and synthesize content from multiple sources and to work with AI models
  • Minimum of 5+ years* of experience in an ESG focused role
  • Experience crafting sentiment methodology and refining models to aggregate scores

We’d love to see:

  • A strategic mind set and comfortability doing presentations to a wide audience
  • Ability to engage across functions and understand other team’s business goals to find mutually beneficial solutions
  • An understanding of the key players and developments within the ESG space
  • Knowledge of Buy Side and/or Sell Side workflow

*Please note we use years of experience as a guide but we certainly will consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary for the role.If this sounds like you:Apply if you think we're a good match! We'll get in touch with you to let you know what the next steps are.Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law. 
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