The Role
Lead product strategy and roadmaps for High Income & Alternatives technology, partnering with portfolio managers, traders, and engineering to define requirements, prioritize work, manage backlogs, and ensure delivery of outcomes for complex credit and alternative investment workflows.
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Job Description:
Director, Product Manager As a Director, Product Manager within High Income & Alternatives Technology, you will own and shape the technology platforms that support Fidelity’s rapidly growing High Income & Alternatives (HIA) business, with a particular focus on the Credit Alternatives domain. In this role, you will partner closely with Portfolio Managers, Analysts, Traders, and Investment Services teams to define and deliver technology solutions that enable the management of complex portfolio structures, including leveraged loans and other alternative investments.You will be accountable for defining what problems to solve and when, driving clarity and alignment through thoughtful planning, prioritization, and backlog management. Working directly with a cross‑functional technology team, you will foster an iterative, outcome‑driven delivery model—encouraging experimentation, learning from failure, and celebrating success. You will continuously deepen your own product, investment, and technology expertise to bring contemporary product thinking and best practices to the organization.The Expertise We’re Looking For
- Define feature and capability strategy aligned to broader product and business goals, including target outcomes, key performance indicators (KPIs), and high‑level strategic roadmap themes.
- Own and maintain the feature/capability roadmap, balancing priorities and tradeoffs to ensure transparency, alignment, and delivery of highest‑value outcomes.
- Ensure alignment across product horizons and technology roadmaps, coordinating dependencies and sequencing work appropriately.
- Develop end‑to‑end use cases and experiences that meet the needs of both investment professionals and operational associates.
- Conduct customer, business, and regulatory analysis to translate needs into clear product requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Partner with stakeholders and subject matter experts to refine use cases and ensure solutions address complex business and regulatory nuances.
- Manage intake and prioritization of new work requests, ensuring appropriate data is captured to support informed decision‑making.
- Collaborate closely with engineering leadership to translate product intent into a well‑defined solution backlog.
- Actively engage with the delivery team through backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, and reviews—providing clarity, feedback, and direction.
- Review, validate, and accept delivered product changes to ensure they meet defined outcomes and quality standards.
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Economics, or related field.
- Experience working with Front Office Investment Teams – Portfolio Managers, Traders, or Quantitative Analysts, a plus for the role
- 10+ years’ experience working in a technology role or related field.
- Experience in establishing and documenting product roadmaps, backlogs and team priorities.
- You have a strong focus on execution and identify, communicate, and remove impediments to progress for your teams.
- You are capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building high-performing teams.
- You establish and maintain unquestioning relationships as you work collaboratively across Fidelity to deliver business outcomes and seek out the expertise of colleagues to advise on your approach.
- You are intellectually curious and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching.
- You have or are committed to developing a balance of technology and non-technology skills to fully appreciate the broad needs of our customers.
We are currently working in a hybrid model with some flexibility for remote working. However, Fidelity is gradually transitioning towards a full-time return to the office. We believe this will help strengthen our culture and enhance both the associate and customer experience. At present, this transition is expected from 2027 onwards, with no fixed timeline in place.
Category:Information TechnologySkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Economics, or related field
- 10+ years experience working in a technology role or related field
- Experience establishing and documenting product roadmaps, backlogs, and team priorities
- Experience working with Front Office Investment Teams (Portfolio Managers, Traders, Quantitative Analysts)
- Strong focus on execution; identify, communicate, and remove impediments to team progress
- Ability to lead, influence, and motivate without formal authority and build high-performing teams
- Experience translating customer, business, and regulatory needs into clear product requirements and acceptance criteria
- Experience partnering with engineering leadership to translate product intent into a solution backlog and engaging in agile ceremonies
- Commitment to continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching
- Willingness to develop a balance of technology and non-technology skills to understand customer needs
Fidelity Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing are presented as generous and meaningful components of total compensation, with certain roles achieving high total earnings through multiple pay streams. Variable pay is consistently framed as a positive contributor beyond base salary.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 7% alongside additional profit-sharing up to 10% materially enhances long-term compensation. These retirement features are highlighted as standout strengths of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave (16 weeks maternity, 12 weeks parental), backup dependent care, and adoption assistance provide robust family support. Hybrid work and caregiving resources further ease family responsibilities.
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What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
