Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.
Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.
We are looking for a Product Lead to join the Financial Data Stack team, working on transaction and reference data modules that sit at the intersection of Order Management System and the larger operational platform products (Opterra). The role involves work across asset classes, trade lifecycle, and multi-stakeholder environments with exposure to clients and prospect engagements.
What You’ll Do:
- Define product specifications for FDS modules covering trade lifecycle, reference data, asset servicing, and OMS-to-accounting workflows.
- Work with domain experts, engineering, client services, and prospect-facing teams to gather requirements and align priorities.
- Research market standards and competitive behavior to inform platform treatment of financial data.
- Evaluate and respond to new asks, translating client requirements into scalable product decisions.
- Identify and present opportunities for new features or product expansion with supporting business cases.
- Build test cases for complex financial data scenarios across asset classes and lifecycle events.
- Use AI tools actively in your workflow for research, analysis, and spec development.
What You’ll Need:
- 6+ years of overall experience; 2+ years in product management.
- Strong understanding of trade lifecycle across asset classes such as equities, fixed income, derivatives, and FX.
- Familiarity with reference data, corporate actions, position keeping, and reconciliation.
- Critical thinking and the ability to articulate standpoints/ideas and influence stakeholders.
- Experience managing requirements across engineering, operations, and client-facing teams.
- Clear written communication: specifications, release notes, and business cases.
- Firsthand experience with AI tools.
- MBA, CFA, FRM, or similar certification preferred. Basic technical understanding is a plus but not required.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is characterized as generous, with extended maternity and supportive paternity leave in some locations, plus family and adoption assistance. This family focus complements broader time‑off and caregiving supports.
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What We Do
Arcesium is a global financial technology and professional services firm, delivering post-investment and enterprise data management solutions to some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, institutional asset managers, and private equity firms. Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client's ecosystem, Arcesium's cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex workflows and help clients achieve scale. Building on a platform developed and tested by investment and technology development firm, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium was launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. J.P. Morgan, another large client, later joined as our third partner. Today, Arcesium services over $679 billion in global client AUM with a staff of over 1,500 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.
