Junior Product Manager

About this role

Responsibilities

• Partner with broking desks and business stakeholders to document needs, pain points, and enhancement opportunities across rates and credit products
• Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements
• Maintain the product backlog and support prioritization discussions with senior product managers
• Serve as the day‑to‑day liaison between broking desks, developers, and QA to ensure smooth delivery
• Track deliverables, dependencies, and risks, escalating blockers to senior product managers when needed
• Support release readiness activities, including documentation, training materials, and rollout communications
• Review QA test scenarios and validate business logic for credit and rates workflows
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with end users and ensure timely sign‑offs
• Analyze usage and workflow data to identify improvement opportunities such as liquidity, pricing, trade capture quality, and exception rates
• Assist with metrics reporting, including feature adoption, workflow performance, and issue trends

• Strong understanding of Fixed Income markets across Rates and Credit
• Solid knowledge of government bonds such as Treasuries, Gilts, and EGBs, as well as inflation‑linked bonds like TIPS and Linkers
• Credit market experience in at least one area:

• Corporate Bonds (Investment Grade / High Yield)
• Emerging Markets Bonds (sovereign and/or corporate)

• Working knowledge of Interest Rate Derivatives including IRS, OIS, FRA, basis swaps, swaptions, and caps/floors
• Working knowledge of Credit Derivatives including single‑name CDS and CDS indices
• Understanding of key lifecycle events such as coupons, rolls, and credit events at a workflow level
• Understanding of essential pricing and risk concepts: price vs. yield, yield‑to‑maturity, DV01, and their use in trading workflows
• Awareness of credit‑specific fundamentals including spread, clean vs. dirty price, and settlement co...