Senior Product Manager - Data Solutions

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access

to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.  

At FactSet, our values are the foundation of everything we do. They express how we act and operate, serve as a compass in our decision-making, and play a big role in how we treat each other, our clients, and our communities. We believe that the best ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time, and that curiosity is the key to anticipating our clients’ needs and exceeding their expectations.  

FactSet seeks a strategic, technically adept Senior Product Manager to lead the evolution of Nexus, our unified data access layer that orchestrates query patterns, enforces entitlements and licensing, and optimizes performance to deliver fast, reliable, and compliant data experiences. Nexus powers analytics, transformations, and derived data by materializing content from diverse sources into our lakehouse while leveraging critical catalog metadata to enable downstream teams and applications to access consistent, high-quality data. You will bring deep understanding of how data is distributed, consumed, and transformed across our platform, partnering with architects, engineers, and data consumers to define and execute the Nexus roadmap that meets evolving performance and access requirements.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Vision

  • Craft, articulate, and champion the strategic vision for Nexus as FactSet’s unified data access layer, ensuring alignment with overall platform goals and business objectives.

  • In collaboration with architects and engineering, define and communicate product objectives, key results (OKRs), milestones, risks, and critical dependencies for Nexus.

  • Identify and promote opportunities for value creation through seamless, high-performance, and compliant data access.

• Roadmap Ownership

  • Define, own, and maintain the Nexus product roadmap, balancing technical innovation with evolving customer and business requirements.

  • Establish and track short- and long-term goals, success metrics, OKRs, key deliverables, and timelines for the Nexus platform in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• Stakeholder Engagement & Requirements Gathering

  • Develop strong relationships with data consumers across product and engineering teams to deeply understand their use cases, challenges, expectations, and desired outcomes with the data access platform.

  • Facilitate ongoing feedback collection and requirements gathering to inform product direction, resolve pain points, and prioritize solutions.

  • Serve as the voice of the customer in cross-functional conversations, ensuring Nexus delivers value to analytics, data transformation, and downstream application teams.

• Technical Product Leadership

  • Develop a deep understanding of data lifecycle, distribution patterns, transformations and entitlements in FactSet’s platform.

  • Drive product and technical solutions that orchestrate efficient query patterns, materialize data from diverse sources, and enforce access controls for performance and compliance.

  • Leverage catalog metadata to ensure Nexus consistently delivers high-quality data to downstream teams and applications.

• Performance, Compliance, and Risk Optimization

  • Partner with engineering to define and achieve performance targets (latency, throughput, reliability) for data retrieval and distribution.

  • Ensure Nexus enforces all required entitlements, meeting data access, regulatory, legal, and contractual obligations.

  • Proactively identify and manage risks (technical, compliance, delivery), and maintain awareness of dependencies across other workstreams affecting on-time delivery and system stability.

• Enablement & Evangelism

  • Educate and enable product and engineering teams to integrate with Nexus through development of guides, documentation, and best practices for consistent data access and transformation.

  • Advocate for Nexus adoption across FactSet’s client facing products starting with AI Products and extending to legacy products, supporting unified standards and driving increased adoption.

• Delivery & Continuous Improvement

  • Oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle: ideation, requirements, development, launch, and ongoing optimization.

  • Continuously monitor key metrics, usage patterns, outcomes, and stakeholder feedback to identify improvements and drive innovation.

  • Iterate on the Nexus platform to address scalability, performance, usability, and compliance as business needs evolve.

Required Qualifications 

• 7+ years of product management experience, preferably within data platforms or API-driven ecosystems.

• Strong track record of defining product strategy, translating complex problems into actionable roadmaps, and delivering cross-functional outcomes through collaboration and influence.

• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

• Data-driven mindset with strong analytical skills, including experience using metrics, dashboards, and customer feedback to guide product decisions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.

Desired Qualifications 

• Experience with modern data technologies such as Spark, Flink, Airflow, Databricks, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), APIs, query engines and programming languages such as Python, SQL. 

• Strong understanding of financial data platforms, industry trends, and alternative data solutions.

• Knowledge of structured/unstructured data creation, governance, metadata, and data pipeline distribution.

• Familiarity with compute logic, including aggregation, transformations, date math, symbology, and unit conversion.

• Understanding of distributed systems, caching, SLA management, entitlement/licensing models, and compliance practices.

Job location: Connecticut and New York

Working Environment: Hybrid

For U.S. locations, must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

What's In It For You 

At FactSet, our people are our greatest asset, and our culture is our biggest competitive advantage. Being a FactSetter means: 

• The opportunity to join an S&P 500 company with over 45 years of sustainable growth powered by the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up.

• Support for your total well-being. This includes health, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and a discounted employee stock purchase program, plus paid time off for holidays, family leave, and company-wide wellness days.

• Flexible work accommodations. We value work/life harmony and offer our employees a range of accommodations to help them achieve success both at work and in their personal lives. 

• A global community dedicated to volunteerism and sustainability, where collaboration is always encouraged, and individuality drives solutions. 

• Career progression planning with dedicated time each month for learning and development. 

• Business Resource Groups open to all employees that serve as a catalyst for connection, growth, and belonging. 

Learn more about our benefits here. 

Salary is just one component of our compensation package and is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, and certifications. 

The budgeted amount range for this position in Connecticut or New York City is $124,000 -$156,000