Senior Digital Product Manager

At Franklin Templeton, we’re driving our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we offer opportunities not only to help you reach your potential but also to contribute to our clients’ achievements.

Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world!

• Franklin Templeton has launched its proprietary Goals Based Wealth Management offering through a patented B2B2C digital product called the Goals Optimization Engine (GOE) via various distribution channels covering various global geographies. The product has been built with several years of underlying research involving Mathematical Finance and Behavioral Finance and we are looking for exceptional Product Managers to join our existing team, who can do various tasks of job responsibilities and can take complete ownership of a distribution channel, few large clients or a specific product variant as it relates to the product lifecycle.

Product Management – Digital Investment Solutions & AI/ML Capabilities (50%):

• Have a good understanding of the drivers for business as it relates to Advisory, Retirement, and Private Wealth businesses.

• Drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes for products, including product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and product launches.

• Understand a specific business requirement and evaluate whether the product in its current form can cater to the requirement or alternatively determine what needs to be changed in the product such that the requirement can be met.

• Translate this product solution to the product development team with minimal ambiguity.

• Develop, implement, and maintain production timelines and Manage releases across multiple stakeholders.

• Contribute to Product Research by understanding the pulse of the market and pitch new product ideas and strategies.

• Devise appropriate Go To Market plans for each channel and each geography that comes under the purview of this role.

• Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements

• Translate Technical integration documents and BRDs from various integration partners into User Stories and take ownership of product deployment.

• Ensure appropriate testing of each new or modified product feature and document acceptance criteria for each feature.

• Good understanding of the Agile Release Framework and work towards achieving those ends.

• Understanding of user experience (UX) and business/commercial challenges

• Define and measure Success metrics of product post launch and educate the business on the market dynamics, trends, and our competition.

Deployments, Risk Management, and Documentation (50%):

• Work with Product Research, Product Development, Infrastructure, Sales and Customer Success teams to ensure a successful client or partner deployment

• Work with investment teams to align on asset class selection, custom portfolio construction, capital market expectations and complete the fulfillment and customization of underlying investment models

• Drive the product and business-planning process across cross-functional teams.

• Collaborate with legal, compliance, distribution, marketing and client/partner teams for fulfilling critical support activities.

• Actively risk-manage client interactions with GOE, ensuring strict adherence to the original investment solution and its intended parameters.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation outlining algorithmic methodologies, ensuring clarity, transparency, and API accessibility via Swagger.

• Design robust testing suites to rigorously validate enhancements and updates to algorithmic advice specific to client deployments.

• Collaborate with enterprise data enterprise and analytics team to create dashboards and track business metrics.

Education (or equivalent experience):

• MBA (graduate degree) and a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) undergraduate degree from Tier 1 universities/institutes

• CFA credentials highly preferred.

Experience Core Skills:

• 8-10+ years of Product Management experience in Fintech/Wealthtech or from core technology product companies

• Exceptionally good mathematical skills.

• Exceptional Excel skills in mathematical modeling

• Structured Thinking - Can make decisions supported by robust data analysis and make definitive choices along with pros and cons

• Experience in agile methodologies and digital product development practices.

Experience Other Skills:

• Proven ability to take initiative and work under pressure in a changing/growing environment.

• Should be self-driven and be able to work in an unstructured environment. Exceptional decision-making skills: Ability to prioritize across needs given limited resources

• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills, with the ability to evolve product strategy based on customer research, data, and industry trends

• Thrives in a startup like environment: loves dealing with fast pace and changing needs

• Ability to create partnerships both inside and outside of the Product organization

• Excellent story telling/articulation abilities along with the capacity to dive into minute details.

• Superlative communication and consensus building skills.

• Hands-on experience with analytics platforms, BI tools, and data visualization.

Job Level - Individual Contributor

Work Shift Timings - 2:00 PM -11:00 PM IST