Job Detail

swissQuant Group provides quantitative services, consultancy, and products for financial and industrial clients, including a number of global Fortune 500 companies. Our business edge originates from the effective translation of Intelligent Technology into measurable, bottom-line client value. swissQuant Group is a privately held company incorporated in 2005 as a spin-off of ETH Zürich.

Position
We offer a unique opportunity for a dynamic, experienced, assertive, and hands-on manager with experience in financial services and with a track record of leading a cross-functional team. The position involves managing innovative software solutions in the field of risk management and financial services and guiding the success of the products through the definition of the product vision, target list, pitch pipeline and roadmap.

Scope
You will be responsible of achieving the budget of your team. To achieve this budget, you will work on the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition of software solutions in the field of risk management. You will work closely with sales to do market assessment and implement the marketing campaign of the product line, as well as to define your targets and pitch pipeline. You will define with clients and different internal stakeholders the product and implementation timeline, including a release plan, feature prioritization and capturing actionable feedbacks. Your internal sparring partners are our project manager, quant and development teams, the sales and senior management as well as the Business Area Manager to who you will report to. You will provide cross-functional leadership for a team of total five quant engineers and quant developers who are involved in the product implementation.

Requirements
To meet this challenge, you need to be passionate about technology and experienced t in excelling in a fast-paced and very agile environment. In addition we require:

• Advance education in Mathematics, Science, Computer Science or related fields


• Minimum 5 years of Product Management experience including lifecycle definition, funding assessment, cost modelling, functional and non-functional requirements definition


• Strong analytics and communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders at all level


• Experience in leading a cross-functional team


• Proven capability to develop positive relationship with different stakeholders, including clients, peers and management


• Ideally experience in an agile environment using SCRUM methodologies


• Strong knowledge of risk management at Clearing Houses or Investment Banks is a strong plus


• Great network on the financial market, ideally global


• Fluent in English, German is a plus

What we offer
swissQuant Group is a fast paced and dynamic company. We offer room for growth and a high level of personal responsibility in a challenging environment. As a successful candidate, you will join a project team and take an active part in the development of new software products linked to real client needs and future industry standards.

Interested? Please upload your cover letter, CV and reference letters in PDF format (please compress in max. 2 attachments).

Only direct applications are considered.