Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide. They are seeking a strategic, technically adept Senior Product Manager to lead the evolution of Nexus, their unified data access layer, ensuring high-performance and compliant data experiences.
Responsibilities
- Craft, articulate, and champion the strategic vision for Nexus as FactSet’s unified data access layer, ensuring alignment with overall platform goals and business objectives
- In collaboration with architects and engineering, define and communicate product objectives, key results (OKRs), milestones, risks, and critical dependencies for Nexus
- Identify and promote opportunities for value creation through seamless, high-performance, and compliant data access
- Define, own, and maintain the Nexus product roadmap, balancing technical innovation with evolving customer and business requirements
- Establish and track short- and long-term goals, success metrics, OKRs, key deliverables, and timelines for the Nexus platform in collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Develop strong relationships with data consumers across product and engineering teams to deeply understand their use cases, challenges, expectations, and desired outcomes with the data access platform
- Facilitate ongoing feedback collection and requirements gathering to inform product direction, resolve pain points, and prioritize solutions
- Serve as the voice of the customer in cross-functional conversations, ensuring Nexus delivers value to analytics, data transformation, and downstream application teams
- Develop a deep understanding of data lifecycle, distribution patterns, transformations and entitlements in FactSet’s platform
- Drive product and technical solutions that orchestrate efficient query patterns, materialize data from diverse sources, and enforce access controls for performance and compliance
- Leverage catalog metadata to ensure Nexus consistently delivers high-quality data to downstream teams and applications
- Partner with engineering to define and achieve performance targets (latency, throughput, reliability) for data retrieval and distribution
- Ensure Nexus enforces all required entitlements, meeting data access, regulatory, legal, and contractual obligations
- Proactively identify and manage risks (technical, compliance, delivery), and maintain awareness of dependencies across other workstreams affecting on-time delivery and system stability
- Educate and enable product and engineering teams to integrate with Nexus through development of guides, documentation, and best practices for consistent data access and transformation
- Advocate for Nexus adoption across FactSet’s client facing products starting with AI Products and extending to legacy products, supporting unified standards and driving increased adoption
- Oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle: ideation, requirements, development, launch, and ongoing optimization
- Continuously monitor key metrics, usage patterns, outcomes, and stakeholder feedback to identify improvements and drive innovation
- Iterate on the Nexus platform to address scalability, performance, usability, and compliance as business needs evolve
Skills
- 7+ years of product management experience, preferably within data platforms or API-driven ecosystems
- Strong track record of defining product strategy, translating complex problems into actionable roadmaps, and delivering cross-functional outcomes through collaboration and influence
- Excellent communication and executive presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
- Data-driven mindset with strong analytical skills, including experience using metrics, dashboards, and customer feedback to guide product decisions
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred
- Experience with modern data technologies such as Spark, Flink, Airflow, Databricks, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), APIs, query engines and programming languages such as Python, SQL
- Strong understanding of financial data platforms, industry trends, and alternative data solutions
- Knowledge of structured/unstructured data creation, governance, metadata, and data pipeline distribution
- Familiarity with compute logic, including aggregation, transformations, date math, symbology, and unit conversion
- Understanding of distributed systems, caching, SLA management, entitlement/licensing models, and compliance practices
Benefits
- Health, life, and disability insurance
- Retirement savings plans
- Discounted employee stock purchase program
- Paid time off for holidays, family leave, and company-wide wellness days
- Flexible work accommodations
- Career progression planning with dedicated time each month for learning and development
- Business Resource Groups open to all employees that serve as a catalyst for connection, growth, and belonging
Company Overview
FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals. It was founded in 1978, and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://factset.com .