ETF Product Specialist, AVP
State Street · Sydney
ETF Product Manager / Product Development
Role Purpose
The ETF Product Manager is responsible for driving the development, expansion and adoption of our ETF capabilities in APAC. The role combines a deep ETF subject-matter expertise, product ownership, client engagement and cross-functional delivery to translate market, client and operational requirements into scalable platform capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Product roadmap ownership: Own and maintain the APAC ETF product development roadmap, with primary responsibility for the APAC remit of the iETF platform.
- Demand management and prioritisation: Manage the regional demand pipeline and support prioritisation of investment funding based on strategic value, client impact, risk and delivery capacity.
- Requirements and solution design: Gather, challenge and translate complex requirements into clear platform features, operating models and implementation plans.
- Release delivery: Coordinate work sequencing, business testing, release readiness, go-live approvals and post-implementation support with relevant business teams.
- Client and market engagement: Lead or participate in client engagements, industry events and working groups, representing the organisation’s ETF product and platform capabilities.
- Market intelligence: Identify market, regulatory and competitor trends and convert insights into product strategy, roadmap priorities and commercial opportunities.
- Business adoption: Drive awareness, training and adoption of ETF functionality across APAC.
- Operational resilience: Build effective knowledge transfer and product-champion capability within Operations to reduce key-person dependency and strengthen first-line support for business-as-usual queries.
Key Stakeholders
- ETF clients and strategic prospects
- Technology and platform delivery teams
- Global Delivery and regional Operations teams
- ETF Product Owners across, APAC
- Sales, Relationship Management and Client Service teams
- Risk, Compliance, Legal and other control functions
- Industry bodies, exchanges and market infrastructure providers
Experience and Qualifications
- Significant experience in ETFs, asset servicing, investment management, custody, fund administration or financial-market infrastructure.
- Demonstrated product management or product ownership experience, including roadmap development, demand management and investment prioritisation.
- Strong track record of engaging complex institutional clients and translating business needs into practical platform solutions.
- Experience designing or enhancing ETF operating models, workflows and technology-enabled services.
- Proven delivery experience across requirements gathering, testing, release planning, implementation and business adoption.
- Working knowledge of ETF primary-market processes, fund operations, servicing models and the broader competitive landscape.
- Experience working across regions and coordinating diverse business, operations and technology stakeholders.
Skills and Capabilities
- Deep ETF product and operating-model expertise
- Commercial, client-focused and relationship-oriented mindset
- Strategic planning and market analysis
- Product roadmap and portfolio prioritisation
- Requirements definition and solution design
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Clear executive communication and presentation skills
- Structured delivery, judgement and problem-solving
- Ability to operate effectively in a global, matrixed environment
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