Sr. Manager – Quantitative & Risk Infrastructure Product Owner

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THE ROLE

The Sr. Product Owner – Quantitative & Risk Infrastructure is responsible for defining and delivering the product vision, roadmap, and execution of platforms and capabilities that support quantitative investors and investment risk professionals across the firm. This role focuses on building scalable, well-governed infrastructure that enables quantitative research, quantitative portfolio construction and management and risk analysis and monitoring, while ensuring strong alignment with enterprise data strategies, risk frameworks, and software engineering best practices.

The role partners closely with investment leadership, risk leadership, and technology teams to ensure that quantitative and risk workflows are efficient, resilient, and extensible. The incumbent applies deep domain expertise in quantitative investing, risk analytics, and modern software platforms to guide complex prioritization decisions and drive outcomes that meaningfully improve investor productivity and investment risk insights.

• Requires specialized depth and breadth of expertise across quantitative investing, risk analytics, and technical platforms
• Leads complex, cross-functional initiatives that span investment, risk, and technology organizations
• Operate independently with guidance required only in the most complex or enterprise-impacting situations

May lead functional initiatives, platforms, or multi-team programs

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Define and own the product vision and roadmap for quantitative infrastructure and risk-related platforms, ensuring alignment with the needs of quantitative investors, investment risk professionals, and the broader investment ecosystem.
• Partner closely with the CIO for Quantitative Solutions and the Chief Investment Risk Officers for Equity and Fixed Income to shape and prioritize quantitative and risk technology roadmaps that support current and future investment processes.
• Serve as the primary product interface between quantitative investors, risk teams, technology partners, and senior stakeholders, translating investment and risk needs into a clear, actionable product backlog.
• Drive the development of tooling and infrastructure that enables direct tool-building by quantitative investors, while ensuring consistency with enterprise architecture, data governance, and security standards.
• Establish and evolve pathways for accessing consistent, trusted data within the quantitative ecosystem, aligning platforms with strategic data stores and “golden source” data principles.
• Ensure core quantitative infrastructure is robust, scalable, and well-designed, reducing operational friction and enabling repeatable research-to-production workflows across teams.
• Apply strong understanding of risk frameworks and analytics, including:
• Equity risk models, sources of risk, and model usage
• Fixed income risk metrics and security-level analytics
• Integration of risk measures into portfolio construction, decision-support, and monitoring tools
• Guide product decisions related to optimizers, quantitative investment processes, and the effective use of internal and external vendor tools by quantitative and risk professionals.
• Collaborate with the Chief Product Owner for Investment Research and Quantitative Solutions Technology to ensure alignment across research, analytics, and quantitative platforms.
• ·Champion modern software development best practices across the product lifecycle, including Agile delivery, CI/CD concepts, and disciplined backlog management.
• Leverage emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities, to accelerate development, enhance investor workflows, and improve the scalability and maintainability of quantitative platforms.
• Ensure platforms are designed with cloud-native considerations, including familiarity with Azure-based services and data platforms such as Snowflake, where appropriate.
• Build strong alignment with fundamental investment teams by understanding how fundamental investors leverage quantitative analysis and risk metrics to inform investment decisions.
• Promote the integration of risk awareness into downstream tools and workflows, enabling investors to more effectively incorporate risk considerations into portfolio construction and analysis.
• Partner with Scrum Masters and technology leadership to manage delivery within agreed funding, capacity, and scope constraints.
• Actively manage dependencies, risks, and impediments that could impact roadmap delivery, proactively escalating and resolving issues as needed.
• Participate fully in Agile ceremonies, longer-term planning exercises, and the Product Owner Community of Practice to continuously improve product management effectiveness and domain expertise.
• Assume additional responsibilities as requested in support of strategic departmental or firm-wide initiatives.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• 6-8+ years of experience in the financial services or technology industry, with familiarity with quant portfolio research and investment risk models.
• Strong understanding of the product and the needs of the business.
• Knowledge of and/or experience with writing effective user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills.
• Ability to interact and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.

PREFERRED SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced degree to CFA Charterholder preferred.
• Experience supporting quantitative investment and risk professionals
• Experience as a Product Owner on an Agile team preferred.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) preferred

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Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Base Salary Range: $132,500.00 - $198,500.00 This position is eligible for competitive incentive bonus.

At MFS, we believe in fair and transparent compensation. For that reason, we’re including the salary range for this position. This range reflects our good-faith expectation for what we’ll pay depending on the candidate’s experience, training and education. In addition to the salary, we also offer significant and competitive incentive compensation based on both individual and company performance. Other components of our Total Rewards Package include:

• MFS contributes an amount equal to 15% of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company -sponsored 401(k)

• Education Assistance: MFS contributes $100 monthly up to $10,000 lifetime maximum directly to loan provider

• Education Assistance: Tuition reimbursement up to $8,000 annually

• Education Assistance: Access to discounted tutors and college coaches

• Generous time off and fully paid leaves including 20-weeks for maternity, 12-weeks for parental and caregiver leaves

• Choice of medical and dental plans and an and an employer contribution into the Health Savings Account

• Tax deferred commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care)

• Wellness Programs: Robust wellness webinars, employee assistance program with a focus on mental health, subsidized fitness benefit via Wellhub (formerly Gympass), where you can workout at gyms, studios and boutique fitness locations near you, join virtual personal training sessions and access a wide variety of well-being apps

Our compensation philosophy is to pay competitively for talent while ensuring equity across employees performing comparable work. We are committed to transparency – if you have questions about how we arrived at this range or what additional benefits and bonus opportunities come with the role, we’ll be happy to discuss them

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At MFS, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply - you might be just the right candidate for this role or others.

MFS is a hybrid work environment (remote/onsite) unless otherwise stated in the job posting.

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