Squad Leader - hiring for multiple Squad Leader roles

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Smithfield
Posted on: January 24, 2023

Job Description:

Job Description:

The Role
Do you want to make a difference in our customers' lives and be part of a highly collaborative, cross-functional technology delivery team?

We are looking to recruit multiple Squad Leaders who blend product management, leadership, and planning expertise with a passion for delivering results. As an integral part of a product owner team, Squad Leaders contribute to the overall product area strategy as well as delivery of high-value features for FI clients. In an Agile structure, Squad Leaders partner with other Fidelity leaders to influence decisions, build shared roadmaps, and guide the development of new features. Squad Leaders work with a cross-functional team to deliver digital account management capabilities for our Custody, Clearing, and Fidelity Family Office Services (FFOS) intermediaries and their clients. Squad Leaders ensure alignment on the "what" and "when" through continuous planning and prioritization of a product backlog. Along with their squads, Squad Leaders work iteratively, innovating through testing and experimentation, learning from failures while celebrating success. Additional responsibilities include:

* Communicating the squad's roadmap to motivate and build team and partner support and alignment
* Anticipating, discovering through ongoing interaction with, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as their voice
* Defining, evaluating, and communicating results against acceptance criteria
* Inspecting and evaluating progress, and removing impediments
* Measuring performance against established objectives and KPI's that deliver on agreed upon business, technology, and people results
* Collaborating and coordinating with fellow Squad Leaders, Chapter Leaders, and Scrum Masters to enable associate growth, development, and learning
* Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines
* Collaborating with dependent partners to align on delivery plans

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
* Series 99 (or willing to obtain this FINRA certification within 12 months of hire)
* 5+ years of proven experience and/or digital product management
* Proven experience delivering sophisticated technical projects requiring collaboration across organizations
* Positive relationship building and mentoring skills
* Ability to collaborate and influence across different levels of the organization
* Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining technology products and solutions
* Agile experience preferred
* Ability to grasp sophisticated product features and break them into clear and concise stories with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria
* Proven capability of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, with a track record of building hard-working teams
* Supporting and enabling squad members to be effective, productive, and innovative

The Team
This dynamic Digital Account Management Product Area team develops industry-leading end-to-end digital transaction experiences for Fidelity Institutional clients . In order to deliver on this mission, agility must be at the core of how we operate.

Company Overview
At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process. Please email us at accommodations@fmr.com or call 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 2 if you would like to request an accommodation.
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Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients' money.

Join Us
At Fidelity, you'll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples' lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award (https://www.glassdoor.com/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,19.htm) , we have been recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work in 2022. And you don't need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity-we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you've always imagined.
At Fidelity, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we're calling " Dynamic Working (https://jobs.fidelity.com/dynamic-working/) ."
We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com (http://fidelitycareers.com/) .

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations @fmr.com (mailto:accommodations@fmr.com) , or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.

We welcome those with experience in jobs such as Director Of Marketing, Marketing Intern, and Marketing Assistant and others in the Marketing, Advertising and PR to apply.

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