Data Products & Onboarding Product Owner

As a leading, global financial information services provider, Fitch Group delivers vital credit and risk insights, robust data, and dynamic tools to champion more efficient, transparent financial markets. With over 100 years of experience and colleagues in over 30 countries, Fitch Group’s culture of credibility, independence, and transparency is embedded throughout its structure, which includes Fitch Ratings, one of the world’s top three credit ratings agencies, and Fitch Solutions, a leading provider of insights, data and analytics. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

Fitch's Technology & Data Team is a dynamic department where innovation meets impact. Our team includes the Chief Data Office, Chief Software Office, Chief Technology Office, Emerging Technology, Shared Technology Services, Technology, Risk and the Executive Program Management Office (EPMO). Driven by our investment in cutting-edge technologies like AI and cloud solutions, we’re home to a diverse range of roles and backgrounds united by a shared passion for leveraging modern technology to drive projects that matter to our organization and clients. We are also proud to be recognized by Built In as a Best Place to Work in Technology 3 years in a row. Whether you're an experienced professional or just starting your career, we offer an exciting and supportive environment where you can grow, innovate, and make a difference.

Want to learn more about a career in technology and data at Fitch? Visit: https://careers.fitch.group/content/Technology-and-Data/?locale=en_US

Fitch Group is currently seeking a Data Products & Onboarding Product Owner, based out of our New York office.

Reporting to: Data Tools & Capabilities Product Leader, Fitch Data Marketplace

Fitch’s Chief Data Office (CDO) leads the firm’s enterprise data strategy. Central to it is Fitch’s Data Marketplace - the platform through which employees find, understand and use governed data across business workflows, analytics and AI.

The Data Tools & Capabilities product domain is responsible for defining and evolving the shared technology capabilities that power the Marketplace and broader enterprise data ecosystem.

The Data Tools & Capabilities Product Owner will own an assigned portfolio of Marketplace technology capabilities, partnering with business stakeholders and engineering teams to define product strategy, roadmap, priorities, and successful delivery. The role is accountable for ensuring assigned capabilities are scalable, secure, reusable, operationally resilient, and deliver measurable value across the enterprise.

What We Offer:

- Shape enterprise-scale technology capabilities supporting Fitch's Data Marketplace

- Own products that enable governed data products, analytics, self-service, and AI

- Partner with senior engineering, architecture, governance, and business leaders

We’ll Count on You To:

Own Product Strategy & Roadmap

- Execute against the roadmap and lifecycle plan for assigned technology capabilities, in close partnership with the Product Leader

- Translate business and technical needs into clear product priorities.

- Own and groom product backlogs and prioritization across multiple engineering teams making the hard trade-off calls to keep delivery moving

- Establish success measures and relentlessly drive toward outcomes, not just outputs

Lead Delivery

- Lead cross-functional delivery pods responsible for assigned capabilities.

- Partner closely with engineering leads to deliver high-quality capabilities using AI DLC.

- Balance business priorities, technical dependencies, operational risk, and engineering capacity.

- Drive delivery commitments and planning, pushing through blockers, ambiguity, and competing priorities to get things done

Own Enterprise Technology Capabilities such as:

- Core Marketplace platform services

- Self-service capabilities

- Express APIs

- Data Lab

- Platform observability

- Operational tooling

- AI-enabling platform capabilities

Drive Operational Excellence

- Own operational readiness and lifecycle management for assigned capabilities.

- Monitor adoption, service health, platform performance, and user feedback.

- Prioritize enhancements that improve scalability, resilience, usability, and operational efficiency.

- Partner with engineering on incident management and continuous improvement.

Collaborate Across the Enterprise

- Partner with Data Products & Onboarding to accelerate onboarding and operationalization of data products through better onboarding tools.

- Partner with Data User Experience & Intelligence to ensure technology capabilities enable intuitive user experiences.

- Partner with Product Operations on planning, release readiness, communications, adoption, and operational reporting.

- Partner with Data Governance, CISO, SRE and Emerging Technology to ensure capabilities comply with enterprise data, technology and AI governance and standards, and information security policies.

What You Need to Have:

- 10+ years of experience across product management, enterprise platforms, cloud technologies, or related disciplines.

- A strong bias toward execution, comfortable operating within a defined strategy and roadmap

- Outcome-focused mindset: judged by what gets shipped and adopted, not just what gets planned

- Demonstrated grit and perseverance, a track record of pushing initiatives through organizational friction, shifting priorities, and technical complexity to the finish line

- Strong understanding of cloud platforms, APIs, virtualization/federation, self-service architectures, modern data platforms and AI.

- Experience working with technologies such as AWS, Starburst/Trino, Snowflake, Spark, Databricks, Kafka, or similar technologies.

- Strong stakeholder management across engineering, architecture, governance, and business teams.

- Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into scalable technology capabilities.

What Would Make You Stand Out:

- Experience working in financial services or other highly regulated industry.

- Experience leading enterprise platform products.

- Experience building reusable self-service capabilities.

- Experience supporting AI platforms, semantic technologies, MCPs, or agentic architectures.

- Experience with enterprise data marketplaces or internal developer platforms.

Why Choose Fitch:

- Hybrid Work Environment: 2 to 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location

- A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity

- Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning, financial wellness and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals

- Promoting Health & Wellness: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that prioritize a healthy body & mind

- Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-first policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively

- Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days and support for community engagement initiatives

At Fitch, AI is embedded in how we work every day—supporting smarter decision-making, streamlining workflows, and enabling new ways to create value for our business and clients. Intelligent solutions are increasingly part of our day-to-day operations, helping teams work more efficiently and think differently as we continue to evolve. We’re looking for colleagues who are comfortable operating in an AI-enabled environment—or who are curious, adaptable, and eager to build their AI literacy over time. We value professionals who embrace technology as part of continuous learning and who are committed to using it thoughtfully to enhance how work gets done.

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

FOR NEW YORK ROLES ONLY

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $150,000 and $170,000 USD per year. Actual salaries will be determined on an individualized basis and may vary based on factors including but not limited to education, training, experience, past performance, and other job-related factors.  Base pay is one part of Fitch’s total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, long-term incentives, and other benefits sponsored by Fitch.