Boston , Massachusetts
|Hybrid
|Contract
Boston, Massachusetts
|Hybrid
|Contract
Join a dynamic product management team supporting investment data, portfolio, and market data initiatives in a hybrid Boston-based role. This opportunity is ideal for a strategic, hands-on product professional who can bridge business needs, data validation, and cross-functional delivery in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Partner with business and technology teams to define requirements for investment products, portfolios, securities, transactions, and market data
- Develop source-to-target mapping documentation to show how data moves from upstream systems to downstream platforms
- Validate data transformation rules, field mappings, and business logic to help ensure accurate data movement across systems
- Perform data reconciliation to identify, investigate, and resolve discrepancies between source and target environments
- Support data migration, integration, and system enhancement efforts by checking for completeness and accuracy
- Work closely with business users, operations, developers, and QA partners to confirm functional and data-related requirements
- Create test scenarios, test cases, and traceability documentation based on business needs
- Coordinate user acceptance testing, including execution support, defect tracking, and validation of fixes
- Use SQL and reporting tools to analyze data and support business decisions
- Monitor data feeds and interfaces to help ensure timely and accurate processing
- Support production issue investigation and reconciliation break resolution as needed
- Contribute to product strategy, roadmap planning, and continuous improvement efforts across the product lifecycle
Skills
- Strong experience in product management, digital strategy, or a related discipline
- Background in investment data, financial instruments, or financial services environments
- Experience with source-to-target mapping and data reconciliation/validation
- Working knowledge of user acceptance testing and test documentation
- Ability to analyze data using SQL and Excel
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work across business and technical teams
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and a detail-oriented mindset
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a collaborative, fast-moving environment
- Experience supporting agile ways of working
- Comfort working with stakeholders at different levels of the organization
Preferred Skills
- Experience with security master data, holdings and positions, portfolio accounting, or investment reporting
- Exposure to equities, fixed income, derivatives, IBOR/ABOR transactions, or similar investment data domains
- Experience in enterprise product lifecycle management from concept through launch and optimization
- Familiarity with market research, competitive analysis, and customer insight gathering
- Experience supporting roadmap development and feature prioritization
- Knowledge of Agile, Lean, Scrum, or product management frameworks
- Experience collaborating on enterprise-scale digital transformation initiatives
- Interest in emerging technologies and innovative product approaches
Horizontal is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued and respected. We welcome candidates who bring curiosity, collaboration, and a shared commitment to equity and belonging.
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