About the role

  • Product Leader at Fidelity managing and modernizing trade processing and settlement platforms. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to innovate and improve legacy systems with strategic vision.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the roadmap to enable innovation and modernization of trade processing and settlement systems, ensuring strong alignment with both business objectives and industry advancements.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product leaders, engineering teams, architecture, and business units to capture requirements, set modernization and innovation objectives, and prioritize backlog in alignment with the strategic vision.
  • Analyze, reimagine, and continuously improve end-to-end workflows—including pain points, data dependencies, and user experiences—for both legacy and modernized environments by introducing thought leadership, automation, and innovative solutions.
  • Author and validate use cases, process flows, and acceptance criteria that guide both modernization
  • Prioritize features and innovation or modernization milestones based on business needs, customer feedback, regulatory demands, and measurable data.
  • Leverage AI analysis tools (such as Copilot and others) to accelerate analysis, workflow, and requirements documentation.
  • Facilitate collaborative sessions to drive alignment, stakeholder engagement, and successful adoption of new solutions while supporting essential legacy operations.
  • Monitor and report on metrics of innovation impact, modernization success, user adoption, and continuous performance improvements.
  • Stay current with business trends, industry best practices, and regulatory changes; proactively foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and modernization.

Requirements

  • 6-8 years of product management experience covering product development, or project/product management, with a focus on modernizing or supporting trade processing and settlement platforms.
  • Direct experience with brokerage trade processing and settlement; experience in modernization of core trade processing and settlement workflows is strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated success in modernizing legacy systems (e.g., mainframe-to-cloud migration).
  • Ability to translate operational processes into intuitive product requirements for engineering; proven understanding of operational workflows in brokerage trade processing and settlement is preferred.
  • Proficient in the use of AI-powered analysis and productivity tools (such as GitHub Copilot or similar) to accelerate analysis, workflow, requirement documentation, and data-driven decision making.
  • Data-driven approach to modernization - understanding business unit needs and translating those into actionable, incremental roadmap milestones.
  • Demonstrated experience shaping product strategy and delivery with a modernization mindset and working with engineering teams for successful delivery.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (preferred).
  • Experience with agile is preferred and collaborating with cross-functional teams (including engineering, business, and architecture partners); experience with toolsets for modern product delivery (JIRA, JIRA Align, Confluence, Miro, Tableau, Copilot, or similar).
  • Skills in COBOL or experience working with COBOL-based systems preferred.

Benefits

  • comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support
  • market-leading retirement
  • generous paid time off and parental leave
  • charitable giving employee match program
  • educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career

Job title

Product Leader – Trade Processing, Settlement

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$89,000 - $180,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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