Product Owner, Investment Risk (Fintech)

Location: Boston, MA, United States. Hybrid schedule: employees work from the office 4 days a week and may work remotely 1 day a week.

Base salary: USD 120,000–225,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a private partnership providing investment management solutions across global capital markets for institutional clients in more than 60 countries.

What you will do

• Define and evolve the vision, strategy, roadmap, objectives, success measures, and adoption goals for Investment Risk capabilities.
• Own the investment risk product backlog, roadmap commitments, sequencing decisions, capacity allocation, and prioritization trade-offs.
• Own the enterprise investment risk analytics engine supporting investor workflows, risk oversight, and management and client reporting across asset classes and strategy types.
• Develop scalable risk workflows, decision-support capabilities, trusted data access pathways, and integrations with portfolio construction, monitoring, controls, PMS, OMS, and other Investment Platform products.
• Represent the product for business stakeholders and technology delivery teams while coordinating priorities across risk, analytics, compliance, data, technology, and other Product Owners.
• Lead backlog refinement, release planning, product acceptance, Agile planning and reviews, and prioritization of AI and advanced analytics opportunities.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in asset management or financial services, including meaningful exposure to portfolio risk management, risk methodologies, risk analytics, investment controls, investment data, and investment risk technology capabilities.
• Experience working with investment, data, analytics, and technology teams.
• Experience defining product strategy, roadmaps, backlogs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery priorities.
• Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives in Agile environments and influencing stakeholders across business and technology teams.
• Strong product leadership, outcome orientation, analytical, decision-making, prioritization, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Ability to translate strategy into executable priorities and measurable outcomes, manage competing stakeholder priorities, and balance strategic thinking with disciplined execution.
• Knowledge of risk methodologies, models and risk engines; portfolio risk management and investment risk oversight; investment controls and regulatory risk requirements; and trusted data, canonical data dependencies, and shared data and analytics capabilities.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with risk analytics platforms, portfolio management platforms, investment data platforms, market and reference data, vendor tools, and modern software delivery practices.
• Advanced degree and/or CFA, FRM, CAIA, or related professional qualification.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work environment with 4 days in the office and 1 day remote each week.
• Salary, variable compensation, potential discretionary corporate bonus and/or incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package.
• Benefits include retirement plan, health, dental, vision, pharmacy, HSA, FSA, commuter program, employee assistance, life and disability insurance, adoption assistance, backup childcare, tuition/CFA reimbursement, and paid leave.
• Private-partnership structure, collaborative culture, independent thought, healthy debate, and commitment to a diversified workforce and equal opportunity.

Hiring process

• Applicants who do not meet every qualification are encouraged to apply if they believe they could excel in the role.
• Accommodation support is available for candidates with disabilities during the application process.