IT Product Manager

The Bank for International Settlements, BIS is hiring a Senior IT Product Manager within the Banking Technology department. This role is based in Basel, however, thanks to our status as an international organization, we can hire globally and welcome applications from candidates of all nationalities and located anywhere in the world. Relocation support is available for the successful candidate and their dependent family members. This job is available as three years fixed-term. The deadline for application is on Sunday 11 January 2026 end of the day. Purpose of the job: To define and drive the strategic vision, development, and lifecycle management of their assigned product(s), ensuring alignment with the bank’s strategic objectives. The role involves leading cross‑functional initiatives, mentoring team members, and coordinating with external stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions. This role focuses on product management with additional responsibilities in business analysis to identifying business needs and developing tools for pricing financial instruments, hedging, trading, portfolio management, and related activities to ensure the delivery of high‑quality solutions and smooth system operation, including production support. By joining the Banking Technology team, you will: Lead cross‑functional projects while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver high‑quality solutions. Develop and implement a product strategy and roadmap that aligns with the organization's objectives. Contribute to an international and inclusive environment that fosters innovation and teamwork. Principal accountabilities: Define and execute the product strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with stakeholder objectives, managing resources and budgets, conducting market analysis and user research, and driving continuous improvements while maintaining technical consistency and supporting business needs. Collaborate with stakeholders to identify business needs, analyse business processes, and document requirements for pricing financial instruments, hedging, trading, portfolio management, and the automation of operating procedures. Define acceptance criteria and create process flows or use cases to support system improvements and resolve complex and ambiguous challenges ensuring business requirements are effectively met. Act as the primary liaison for stakeholders to coordinate changes and initiatives and provide regular progress updates while clearly communicating the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Lead and mentor agile cross‑functional teams, providing guidance and fostering collaboration to achieve product goals. Oversee the full lifecycle of software releases and upgrades, enhance system reliability through DevOps and test automation, ensure compliance with IT and cybersecurity policies, assume contract manager role for vendor relationships and procurement activities, and drive operational efficiency with best practices and compliance. Provide production support, including on‑call coverage during evenings, weekends, and service windows, managing incident resolution processes, liaising with technical teams to troubleshoot issues, and ensure timely communication with stakeholders during service disruptions. Represent the organization in discussions with external stakeholders to advance key initiatives. Inform the Line Manager of major technology trends relevant to the business area for input into IT strategy. Keep the Line Manager informed of progress and difficulties in the discharge of duties through regular meetings, status reports, or other mutually agreed‑upon methods. Organize own work and, when required, help set objectives for the area of responsibility ensuring measurable contributions to the department’s success. Maintain records of time spent on various activities in accordance with departmental procedures. Ensure that resources are used in an effective manner within the designated area, in cooperation with the Line Manager. Propose investments to the Line Manager and ensure cost‑effectiveness within the area of responsibility. Qualifications, skills, and experience: A master's degree in information management, computer science, finance, or equivalent professional work experience. Several years of experience working as a product manager with trade and/ or post‑trade management systems in a treasury and/or asset management business for a financial institution. Strong user focus with the ability to distil group ideas pragmatically and address conflicts diplomatically. Strong analytical thinking to understand business needs and specify technical solutions including acceptance criteria and non‑functional requirements. Exceptional communication skills to lead executive meetings and collaborate with stakeholders across the bank. A team‑oriented mindset with the ability to foster innovation, continuous learning, and collaboration. Deep knowledge of the financial trade life cycle in central banks environments using a TMS ideally Findur. Ability to explore domains beyond current area of expertise. Who we are: Internationalism is at the core of our identity and the best representation of this is our workforce. With employees from over 66 countries and offices in nine locations, the BIS is a global organisation with a truly international workforce. By joining us, you will work in a unique, highly rewarding, and international work environment. We are committed to equal opportunities at the BIS and aim to build a workforce that reflects our global membership. We strive to attract the best talent and foster an inclusive environment. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, including those with a breadth of professional experience. You can discover more about our inclusive working environment here. What the BIS offers: We want your time at BIS to be a rewarding and career‑enriching experience. We offer an agile and flexible working environment with hybrid working opportunities including home office and working from abroad days. To support our international applicants, we offer relocation support that extends to your dependent family members. In addition, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including support for working families including childcare and education allowances (where applicable). Finally, we offer a genuinely unique international working environment, which will give you exposure to the global financial system and the opportunity to collaborate with passionate experts from all over the world. #J-18808-Ljbffr