Product Associate

at  MarketAxess Holdings

Company Description
MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world’s largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one’s ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we’re going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.

The Product Associate will help create and deliver quality business systems and operational tools, while working as part of a dedicated Agile Scrum team. The Product Associate will interface with various internal/external operational departments with high levels of responsibility to understand the business behavior and needs to deliver scalable, reliable STP solutions that are critical to the day-to-day business.
The Product Associate represents the business while working with the Product Manager in prioritizing features for development, approving user stories, and ensuring open communication across all stakeholders. The individual will also be responsible for maintaining the product backlog by creating, owning, and refining well-formed user stories which can be actionable by the scrum team.
The individual will represent the scrum team, when needed, to internal/external stakeholders, leaders, and other teams to ensure alignment by providing feedback to the program on enhancements. The Product Associate champions change and effectively manages the implementation of new ideas, ability to align and motivate a team to achieve objectives.