Product Manager

Product ManagerPublicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients' businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.Sapient Corporation is looking for a Product Manager to design and maintain enterprise analytics solutions that track investment portfolio performance, risk exposure, and returns for asset management clients, ensuring the underlying data is validated and reconciled across sources. The role involves integrating enterprise investment management platforms such as Aladdin, Charles River, State Street Alpha, and Bloomberg to ensure that trade records, pricing data, benchmarks, and portfolio holdings flow accurately across systems. The Product Manager will collaborate with investment and risk teams to translate complex financial concepts into detailed product and system requirements for engineering teams. The role also includes designing data pipeline systems that move trade and market data across investment platforms using API-based integrations via tools such as Postman, and cloud infrastructure. The Product Manager will query investment databases using SQL and develop dashboards in tools such as Tableau or Power BI to verify that portfolio valuations, risk figures, and performance results are accurate before they reach fund managers or compliance teams. The Product Manager will use project tracking tools such as JIRA to manage the product backlog, plan delivery sprints, and monitor engineering progress; document platform requirements and technical decisions in Confluence or similar tools for team reference; investigate and resolve issues in live production systems where financial data is incorrect, missing, or inconsistent across sources, restoring data integrity for investment and operations teams that depend on the platform; maintain and version-control product configuration files, technical specifications, and pipeline code using Git-based systems such as GitHub or Bitbucket in collaboration with engineering teams; apply financial analytics methodologies including portfolio risk analysis, performance attribution, fixed income analytics, and valuation techniques such as VaR and stress testing to define and validate investment platform requirements and outputs; and evaluate emerging technologies in cloud computing, data engineering, and machine learning, and recommend solutions that can automate financial reporting workflows or improve the speed and accuracy of analytics delivery.Employer will accept a bachelor's degree in finance, systems engineering, data analytics, economics or related followed by three years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or three years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in any occupation in which the required experience was gained.Position requires:Experience applying investment analytics concepts including portfolio performance measurement, risk exposure metrics, valuation analytics, financial data reconciliation, and analysis of multi-asset portfolio datasets.Experience working with financial datasets and platforms including Aladdin, Charles River, State Street Alpha, Bloomberg, or similar enterprise investment systems, and trade, pricing, benchmark, and portfolio position data.Gathering and documenting functional and technical requirements for complex portfolio risk measurement, enterprise financial analytics or investment management software solutions.Designing, integrating, and testing REST APIs using tools such as Postman or Swagger to support API-driven data integration across financial platforms.Analyzing datasets using SQL and developing dashboards with Tableau, Power BI, or similar visualization tools.Using JIRA or similar Agile tools for backlog management, sprint planning, and project tracking. Using Confluence or similar platforms to develop product documentation and technical specifications.Investigating and resolving production issues including data inconsistencies, market data discrepancies, and analytics calculation errors in financial analytics platforms.Using Git-based version control systems such as GitHub, Bitbucket, or similar tools for collaborative development.Experience applying financial analytics methodologies including portfolio risk analysis, performance attribution, fixed income analytics, derivatives valuation, Value-at-Risk (VaR), stress testing, and valuation analytics.Evaluating emerging technologies including cloud computing, data engineering frameworks, and machine learning tools to improve analytics automation and reporting workflows.Will work from Chicago, IL and various unanticipated client sites and Sapient offices nationally, Telecommuting available on a hybrid basis at company discretion.