Finalto
Product Development Director
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Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Product Development Director to bridge business strategy and technology delivery.
Reporting directly to the Group Chairman, you will shape the product roadmap, improve development processes, and ensure business initiatives are translated into clear, actionable requirements for technology teams.
Success in this role will require a strong understanding of the company’s business model, operational processes, and client journey. You will challenge existing ways of working, identify opportunities for product and process improvement, and help drive greater efficiency, transparency, and alignment across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate business priorities into a structured and commercially aligned product roadmap.
- Evaluate product ideas and business requests based on strategic value, client impact, operational benefit, technical feasibility, and delivery priority.
- Challenge and refine requirements, ensuring each initiative has a clear business objective, expected outcome, success measure, and agreed priority before entering development.
- Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and the IT Development team.
- Translate complex business needs into clear product requirements, functional specifications, and development-ready documentation.
- Ensure development teams understand the business purpose, scope, and expected outcomes of each initiative.
- Manage communication and expectations between leadership, business teams, and technology stakeholders regarding priorities, scope, timelines, and delivery constraints.
- Review business requests and product specifications, including AI-assisted documentation, before they enter the development pipeline.
- Identify gaps, risks, assumptions, dependencies, and unclear requirements before development begins.
- Establish and maintain consistent governance for product intake, prioritisation, documentation, delivery tracking, and post-delivery review.
- Monitor delivery progress, risks, blockers, dependencies, and changes in scope across the roadmap.
- Support prioritisation decisions where business demands or technical constraints compete.
- Improve product development workflows, operating models, and cross-functional communication.
- Work closely with Product, Technology, QA, Operations, and business teams to improve delivery effectiveness.
- Ensure completed products and features are reviewed against the original business objectives and intended outcomes.
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Must Have Qualifications
- 10+ years’ experience within financial services, fintech, brokerage, trading technology, liquidity, capital markets, or a related industry.
- Strong background in product management, business analysis, product delivery, project management, or technology-led business transformation.
- Proven experience acting as the bridge between business stakeholders and software development teams.
- Experience working with B2B technology products, enterprise platforms, trading systems, or financial technology solutions.
- Strong project management, stakeholder management, and delivery governance experience.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into structured product or technical specifications.
- Strong commercial awareness and experience improving workflows, operational efficiency, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading digital transformation or business process improvement initiatives.
- Experience with AI-assisted product development, business analysis, or specification management.
- Working knowledge of Atlassian Jira and Confluence for product delivery, backlog management, and documentation.
- Familiarity with SQL, Databricks, Python, or similar technologies, with the ability to understand technical concepts and collaborate effectively with engineering teams (hands-on development experience is not required).
- Agile, Scrum, SAFe, PMP, or similar delivery certifications.
- Experience within brokerage, liquidity, trading platforms, or capital markets environments.
- Experience working directly with executive leadership, founders, board members, or chairpersons.
What We Offer
- Direct exposure to executive leadership, including the Group Chairman.
- Significant influence over product strategy, delivery governance, and business transformation.
- The opportunity to shape how products and technology initiatives are delivered across the organisation.
- Exposure to complex financial technology and trading platform environments.
- A collaborative, international working environment.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Long-term career growth and leadership opportunities.
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