About Us
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 Role
The Product Management function defines the strategic vision, manages the technical delivery, and then helps to bring to market new products. This process includes continuous collaboration with MarketAxess’ technology and sales organisations, as well as our clients, to ensure our products are fit for purpose, and that we stay ahead of developments in our markets. The Senior Product Associate works with Product Managers in prioritizing features for development, creating user stories, and ensuring open communication across all stakeholders. As a Senior Product Associate, you'll help shape the next generation of our fixed income trading platform. You’ll work closely with technical and business teams to drive product development, support client adoption, and ensure delivery of high quality, data driven solutions. In addition, you will play a key role in exploring and evaluating appropriate AI use cases within the product, identifying opportunities where AI can enhance workflows, improve decision‑making, or unlock new capabilities for clients.
The individual will also 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 Senior Product Associate champions change and effectively manages the implementation of new ideas, with the ability to align and motivate a team to achieve objectives in a fast paced environment.
How You’ll Help Take Us There
- Translate customer needs into clear requirements for cross functional teams.
- Partner with developers to deliver cohesive, high quality product releases while leveraging agile methodology.
- Contribute to the Product Management community by sharing knowledge and best practices.
- Present product updates through internal and external demos and walkthroughs.
- Become a subject matter expert in fixed income trading technology.
- Prioritize and refine the product backlog to align with strategic goals.
- Analyze user and market data to uncover insights and produce impactful sales materials.
- Support tracking of KPIs to measure product performance and ROI.
- Work with the Research team to explore appropriate AI use cases within the product
What We’re Looking For
- 4+ years in product management, project, or business analysis roles.
- Strong Agile delivery experience.
- Experience in financial services, especially fixed income.
- Knowledge of OMS/EMS workflows and API integrations.
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM/quantitative field.
- Understanding of FIX protocols and working SQL knowledge.
- Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, MS Office, Slack.
- Strong analytical, communication, and problem solving skills.‑solving skills.
- Passion for trading technology and continuous improvement.
- Experience implementing AI within products.
What You Can Expect from Us
- Central Location: based at our city offices near St Paul's.
- Free Food: We provide lunch each day of the week when the employee attends the office via our vendor Feedr as well as breakfast cereals, office snacks and drinks from our free vending machines
- Paid Time Off: 25 days annual leave entitlement plus 2 charity days
- Reward for your service: We offer a two-week bonus holiday after completing each 5 years of service
- Core benefits: Besides competitive standard benefits package we offer private medical (PMI) for family, Cash Plan, health screenings, dental cover, 6X life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, pension, car leasing (Tusker electronic cars), reimbursement for wellness stipend, interest free season ticket loan and a “Share Incentive” plan
- Tuition Assistance and Professional Training: Benefit from on-demand learning, boot camps, and opportunities to attend conferences
Collaboration and innovation are integral to our success – it's how we got to where we are and how we’ll maintain and grow our competitive advantage. We believe this best happens in an office environment. Employees in Product work in the office 4 or more days a week. This approach still allows for flexibility depending on the business function you work within but also helps us maintain a collaborative office environment long-term.
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What We Do
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 2,300 companies 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.
Why Work With Us
When we say we have an environment without endless layers, we really mean it. You’ll work alongside talented colleagues of all backgrounds and experience in an environment where your voice is valued. You’ll be in the middle of the action, where your contributions will be seen and recognized.
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