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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Onsite
At Iress, we make things happen
We believe technology should help people perform better every day. Since our beginning in 1993, people across financial services have trusted us to take their performance to the next level. More than 10,000 businesses and 500,000 people use our software, from the world’s most iconic financial services brands to advice firms of all sizes, banks, insurers, investment managers, traders and brokers. Iress is one of Australia’s largest technology companies and employs more than 2,500 people across Australia, The United Kingdom, Africa, Canada, France, New Zealand and Asia.
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At Iress, a key role within the Product & Development team is the Product Manager, whose primary role is to research the market, competitive landscape and our users' needs, to define product vision and strategy, and with Iress’ engineering teams translate this vision into brilliant software products.
The Market Data Distribution Services (MDDS) team manages over 60 data applications, services, and internal tools that form the foundational architecture of the Global Trading and Market Data ecosystem. This highly technical platform product management role has a dual mandate: acting as the internal "platform-as-a-service" product owner for all internal consumer teams, and managing the client-facing Web Services API. A core focus of this role is to drive the strategic evolution of our legacy technology stack towards a modern, scalable architecture, unlocking new commercial value from our extensive data assets along the way.
Some of the awesome things you’ll be involved with:
Platform Strategy & Alignment: Own and articulate the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the core market data platform. Act as the primary product partner for all internal consumer teams, ensuring their roadmaps are understood and that the distribution platform's roadmap is aligned to support overarching business goals.
Technical Discovery & Definition: Work in close partnership with engineers and technical leads to develop robust problem definitions and support continuous product discovery.
Scalable Solutions: Analyse and identify thematic problem patterns from various consumer teams and support incidents, ensuring that new solutions are scalable, reusable, and aligned with our target architectural model and modernisation efforts.
API Product Lifecycle Management: Manage the complete product pipeline for the client-facing Web Services API, prioritising the backlog to balance new feature development with essential maintenance, and ensuring continuous compliance with evolving information security standards and vendor obligations.
Operational Tooling: Oversee the management and continuous improvement of critical internal operational tools, including our billing and entitlement systems.
Platform Health: Maintain a deep understanding of the client and internal support landscape. Define and monitor key platform health metrics (e.g., uptime, API performance, adoption rates) to ensure the platform meets its service-level objectives, championing continuous improvement for stability and reliability.
Cross-Functional Execution: Ensure product backlogs are regularly groomed and accurately reflect current status. Manage complex cross-team dependencies to keep track of key projects and deliveries from inception to production.
Stakeholder Management: Ensure the platform strategy is clearly communicated across Iress and that stakeholders are engaged, understanding defined priorities, demand capacity, and delivery timelines.
What you will bring:
Platform & API Experience: Comprehensive product management experience, specifically with highly technical products, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) models, microservices architectures, or complex data APIs.
Technical Fluency: High degree of technical aptitude with the ability to engage with architect-level engineers and translate complex technical constraints into clear product strategies. ]
Strategic & Commercial Acumen: Strategic thinker who drives for results, eliminates roadblocks, and can identify opportunities to commercialise data assets and transition legacy systems to modern architectures.
Frameworks & Methodologies: In-depth knowledge of product management frameworks and disciplines, familiar with agile/lean product development approaches in large-scale software businesses.
Communication: Strong communication skills including verbal, written, and presentation at senior levels, with the ability to distil complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
Data-Driven: Working knowledge of data-driven product management, with strong analytical skills to define metrics and measure platform health.
Project Management: Adept at simultaneously managing multiple deadlines, balancing net-new value creation with legacy maintenance across geographically distributed teams.
Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of financial markets, trading systems, and market data vendor obligations is highly desirable.
Flexibility: Some engagement with overseas teams and clients at times outside of standard business hours is a requirement of this position.
Why work with us?
8 additional paid days per year to extend your weekends
Hybrid working
Generous cash bonus for every successful referral
Starting school leave - 8.5 days of leave to assist your children with the transition to school
Up to 26 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary carers (up to 4 weeks for secondary carers), and the ability to work part-time when returning to work
3 days’ paid leave per year to participate in charity initiatives
Discounted health insurance premiums
Gym membership discounts
Access to learning and development programs through LinkedIn Learning
Iress is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive culture. We strongly believe that diversity is what makes our teams and our products succeed. Our people have different experiences, skills, perspectives and beliefs and everyone’s uniqueness is valued and celebrated.
Our hiring decisions are never based on sexual orientation, race, gender identity, religion, disability, citizenship, marital or family status and age. Even if you feel you don’t meet all of the requirements of the role, we would still like to hear from you!
We’re also proud to be globally recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer that promotes and supports all women in the workplace.
For more information about what we do, our people and values, please visit our website - https://www.iress.com/join-us/careers/