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Overview
FactSet’s Deep Sector Product Owners team is responsible for planning, communicating and monitoring projects across sector groups in the Deep Sector organization. The team works with developers, analysts and sector leaders across the Deep Sector groups to help FactSet deliver projects from sector-specific content to a diverse client requested enhancement across 9 sectors: Banks, Insurance, Real Estate, Power & Utilities, Telecommunications, Metals & Mining, Oil & Gas, Specialty Finance, and Healthcare. The product owner sits between content stakeholders and software engineering teams to lead a unified effort in producing industry-leading, competitive products that meet the needs of our clients.
Your Team’s Impact
You will join a team of product owners working on oversee software development projects and drive successful delivery across Deep Sector content. Success in this role requires experience managing software development projects using Agile methodologies and JIRA, as well as excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
What You’ll Do
- Project Planning & Backlog Prioritization: Leverage Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies, including Agile, Kanban, and Scrum. Utilize JIRA to configure EPICs, story boards, Tasks, and testing environments.
- Scope & Goals Definition: Collaborate with stakeholders to establish clear project objectives, deliverables, and boundaries. Translate project requirements into JIRA story cards, ensuring test criteria and delivery expectations are captured.
- Progress Tracking: Monitor project tasks, performance, and timelines to ensure alignment with plans. Proactively manage and document support requests, classifying and assigning KTLO (Keep the Lights On) and BAU (Business As Usual) tickets based on complexity and priority.
- Stakeholder Communication: Provide clear and consistent updates on project plans, execution, and development status to key stakeholders and team members.
- Organization & Resource Management: Lead Agile sprint planning meetings, assign tasks, and allocate resources to maximize team productivity and success. Bring a high level of organizational skill, motivating and guiding diverse teams to maintain focus and deliver results.
- Leadership: Exhibit a servant leadership style, fostering collaboration and empowering team members to fulfill their roles effectively.
What We are Looking For
Required Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Management, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience managing software development projects, preferably within an Agile environment and using project management tools such as JIRA or similar platform.
- Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies, including Agile, Kanban, and Scrum.
- Proven experience in planning, tracking, and prioritizing complex project workflows, including breaking down large initiatives into actionable tasks.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to define scope, goals, and deliverables.
- Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills with a track record of effectively allocating resources and managing multiple projects concurrently.
- Advanced written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey project execution plans, status updates, and critical information.
Desired Skills
- Exposure to Energy data (Oil, Gas, Power, or Utility) would be an advantage
- Experience with SQL, Python & Cloud Technologies
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 salary range for this position in London is £48,500 to £71,500. Please note: the salary range may differ in other locations.
Company Overview:
FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.
At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Management, or a related field
- 3+ years of experience managing software development projects
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Experience using JIRA or a similar project management platform
- Strong understanding of SDLC methodologies, including Agile, Kanban, and Scrum
- Experience planning, tracking, and prioritizing complex project workflows
- Ability to break down large initiatives into actionable tasks
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to define scope, goals, and deliverables
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Experience allocating resources and managing multiple projects concurrently
- Advanced written and verbal communication skills
- Exposure to energy data, including oil, gas, power, or utilities
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with Python
- Experience with cloud technologies
Factset Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Factset and has not been reviewed or approved by Factset.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental/vision in some descriptions, and life and disability insurance. Company-wide wellness days and region-specific add-ons (e.g., Vitality PMI, Bupa dental, Health Shield cashback) further reinforce a strong health-and-wellbeing offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement savings support is consistently included as part of the core package through retirement savings plans. The presence of these programs is framed as a meaningful component of total rewards beyond base salary.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase program is highlighted as a standard part of the total rewards package. This provides a pathway to share ownership alongside cash compensation.
Factset Insights
What We Do
FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions. For 40 years, through market changes and technological progress, our focus has always been to provide exceptional client service. From more than 60 offices in 23 countries, we’re all working together toward the goal of creating value for our clients, and we’re proud that 95% of asset managers who use FactSet continue to use FactSet, year after year. As big as we grow, as far as we reach, and as successful as we become, we stay connected to our clients and to each other.
