Product Owner Director - ITP Platform Services
DTCC
Product
Jersey City, NJ, USA · Boston, MA, USA
Posted on Nov 24, 2025
Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?
Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.
The Global Operations, Client Services & Administration group delivers world-class safety and soundness for the global financial services industry. The team provides DTCC’s portfolio of core securities and superior transaction processing and client services support in an environment that minimizes risk and cost while maximizing efficiency.
Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.
The Global Operations, Client Services & Administration group delivers world-class safety and soundness for the global financial services industry. The team provides DTCC’s portfolio of core securities and superior transaction processing and client services support in an environment that minimizes risk and cost while maximizing efficiency.
The Institutional Trade Processing group delivers industry-leading solutions that enhance safety, efficiency, and transparency in global financial markets. ITP provides DTCC’s suite of post-trade services for institutional transactions, enabling seamless trade matching, confirmation, and settlement across asset classes. By minimizing operational risk and cost while maximizing automation and straight-through processing, ITP ensures clients can meet regulatory requirements and achieve optimal trade lifecycle management.
Pay and Benefits:
- Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
- Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
- Pension / Retirement benefits
- Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
- DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).
The Impact you will have in this role:
As the Product Owner Director, you will shape and drive the UI strategy across all ITP applications, ensuring seamless, intuitive experiences that maximize client value. You will translate the product vision into actionable deliverables, guiding multiple squads to deliver high-quality UI solutions aligned with business objectives and regulatory requirements. Your leadership will influence design standards, foster collaboration, and ensure delivery excellence across the enterprise.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead UI Delivery Across ITP Applications: Own the end-to-end UI roadmap, ensuring consistency, usability, and innovation across all products.
- Strategic Alignment: Partner with Product Managers, internal/external stakeholders, and regulators to align UI initiatives with product strategy and compliance requirements.
- Backlog Ownership & Prioritization: Define and manage scope, prioritize features, and maintain a clear product backlog to maximize business and client value.
- Agile Leadership: Guide squads through Agile ceremonies, fostering collaboration among Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Developers, and QA teams.
- Design Governance: Establish and enforce UI standards and best practices, ensuring accessibility, scalability, and adherence to design principles.
- Requirements Decomposition: Translate complex requirements into actionable stories, workflows, and acceptance criteria, ensuring clarity and feasibility.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Lead design walkthroughs, demos, and feedback sessions to validate functionality and enhance user experience.
- Operational Readiness: Collaborate with Integration, Documentation, and Support teams to ensure smooth deployment and operational excellence.
- Risk Management: Identify and mitigate delivery risks, ensuring compliance with established procedures and ethical standards.
- Continuous Improvement: Drive innovation in UI delivery processes, tools, and methodologies to enhance efficiency and quality.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 10+ years in product management or product ownership roles, with at least 5 years in leadership positions driving UI/UX delivery in complex enterprise environments.
- Bachelor's degree Business, Computer Science, Design, or related field (or equivalent experience). Advanced degree preferred.
Talents Needed for Success:
- Domain Expertise: Strong knowledge of financial services operations, particularly Post-Trade Processing, and familiarity with regulatory requirements.
- Technical Acumen: Proven ability to work with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and design systems.
- Leadership Skills: Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams, influencing stakeholders, and managing multiple squads to deliver high-value UI solutions.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate product vision into actionable roadmaps, prioritize features, and balance client needs with operational efficiency.
- Communication: Exceptional ability to articulate design and product decisions to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership and external clients.
- Agile Leadership: Demonstrates deep expertise in Agile Software Development practices (Scrum and Kanban) to guide multiple squads in delivering UI solutions for ITP applications.
- Tool Proficiency: Leverages work management tools such as JIRA to manage product backlogs, prioritize UI features, and enable transparent collaboration across teams.
- Creative Problem-Solving: Drives innovative, user-centric solutions by engaging stakeholders and delivery teams to overcome complex UI and workflow challenges.
- Strategic Execution: Translates the Product Vision into a clear UI roadmap and backlog, ensuring delivery of high-value features that enhance usability and operational efficiency across all ITP applications.
The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.
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Clearing & Securities Services group delivers world-class safety and soundness for the global financial services industry. The team provides DTCC’s portfolio of core securities business, including Institutional Trade processing and First Line Resilience and Control to facilitate better end-to-end planning and prioritization as well as enable more coordinated and seamless delivery of capabilities and services for our clients.
The Global Operations, Client Services & Administration group delivers world-class safety and soundness for the global financial services industry. The team provides DTCC’s portfolio of core securities and superior transaction processing and client services support in an environment that minimizes risk and cost while maximizing efficiency.