American Century Investments

Our Firm

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.

We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.

Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.

For more information, please visit americancentury.com.

Job Summary:

The Lean-Agile SAFe Product Manager is a member of the Agile Release Train (ART) Product Management team acting as the internal voice of the customer/stakeholder. As a team member, you will represent a domain or business capabilities and collaborate to develop and communicate a program vision and strategy in alignment with the ART’s strategic themes and priorities. Other primary responsibilities include breaking epics into features and sequencing the work into releases to improve the value delivered by the ART.

This role interacts with executive partners, System Architects, business users, and Product Owners to identify, groom, and prioritize features and releases for the program backlog. This role is ultimately responsible for helping to deliver technology and business solutions (add domain responsibilities here).

This role will focus on supporting the Middle Office team within the Investment Operations Department and partnering to support the Agile work prioritized for the Information Technology team supporting Investment Operations. The Middle Office team is primarily responsible for functions related to post-trade execution activity, corporate actions, derivatives, market readiness, security lending, and proxy voting. This role will assist the Head of Middle Office and each of the underlying teams in developing, maintaining, and implementing strategic business roadmaps. This role is based out of our Kansas City, MO office.

Responsibilities:

• You understand portfolio and Agile Release Train themes and assist in the decomposition of epics into features and releases to improve early value realization.
• Work collaboratively with all Product Managers within the ART to build a vision and strategy that balance business functionality and architectural considerations.
• You will collaborate to groom and prioritize the program backlog to ensure features are ready for Program Increment (PI) planning.
• Assist in communicating the vision and release objectives during PI planning.
• Validate features and releases to meet their pre-determined acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate dependencies with other Product Managers across ARTs and shared services.
• Work closely with key partners throughout the organization to understand challenges and requirements.
• Communicate program/domain/business knowledge across the company.
• Understand the Middle Office teams’ current state capabilities, core responsibilities, and vision for the future state to the degree vital to enable your teams to effectively prioritize work and provide solutions.
• Drive decision-making, building compelling cases, prioritization, and the necessary development and implementation to effect meaningful change to the infrastructure supporting Investment Operations.
• Manage (attract, develop, and retain) a small team including the Lean-Agile SAFe Product Owner – Middle Office.
• You will be involved in vendor solution assessments focused on Middle Office Operations.

Qualifications:

• You've earned a bachelor’s degree or equivalent related work experience.
• You have a combination of 5+ years of experience in the following: financial services, domain/capability (data analytics, investment management, etc.), and working in a role responsible for product strategy/vision/roadmaps in an Agile environment.
• You are highly motivated with excellent communication, leadership, and motivational skills.
• You learn new tools and technologies to work effectively in a rapidly growing environment.
• Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.
• Knowledge of Middle Office and/or Investment Operations (preferred).
• Product Manager certification (preferred).
• Scaled Agile (SAFe) experience (preferred).

Additional Requirements:

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency.

Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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