Job Description:

*In addition to the locations listed, this position may also be remote.

As the Stock Plan Services (SPS) Product Manager, you are a leader who works across business units to drive key initiatives through strategy, planning, and execution. You are accountable for establishing initiative objectives, a plan for successful execution, and for demonstrating those objectives were achieved. You provide a central connection point for large complex initiatives by communicating with business partners and vendors, resolving impediments, helping manage risk, and driving improvement through successful execution. In an agile format and structure, you will partner with other leaders to make strategic decisions, align roadmaps, define product requirements, set the vision, and bring teams together to execute on specific results. You will ensure alignment on the “what” and “when” of the work performed by teams through ongoing planning and prioritization, that enables teams to work iteratively, innovate when appropriate, celebrate successes, and learn from failures.

The Third-Party Tax offering provides critical functionality between plan sponsors and their tax providers, allowing them to tailor withholding based on participants’ mobility in jurisdictions throughout the world. Our goal is to enhance the existing capabilities by creating new standards, developing a better set of tools to provide best-in-class value to our plan sponsors.

You will coordinate across the organization to accomplish this through new data exchanges, improved PSW, NetBenefits, and reporting experiences, and increased support for our service teams. You will set both the strategic and tactical direction for the features, support prospect conversations in the sales funnel, and represent SPS in client-facing and industry events.

The Team

You will work in partnership with Product and Technology leadership and team members. By role modeling and promoting agile and Fidelity leadership principles, you will promote and sustain an innovative agile environment.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

5+ years of related product management experience, systems development, product development, and/or product management

Vendor relationship management

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Financial services experience preferred

Agile experience preferred

The Skills You Bring

You build strong relationships across diverse teams, internal & external

You use data to understanding client needs, you translate strategic goals into action, and prioritize to maximize value delivered

You have a continuous improvement approach

You are energized by working collaboratively to deliver agreed business outcomes, drawing on the expertise of colleagues to advise on the approach and remove impediments to making progress

You are capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building high-performing teams

You are intellectually curious and model learning and coaching to the Product team

The Value You Deliver

Defining, refining, and representing the initiative vision to team members and business partners to empower and rally support

Collaborating with the Sponsor and other domain leads to develop an overall initiative roadmap. Track execution and adjust roadmap as needed during execution

Determine engagement across Product support groups like compliance, legal, marketing, risk, security

Anticipating, discovering, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as the voice of the clients and guide execution of the initiative

Connect varying parties with independent strategies and roadmaps but who are aligned to the initiative through tracking and communicating progress and overall health.

Facilitating resolution of dependencies between teams to prioritize work for the initiative. and decision-making and risk mitigation.

Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines

Inspecting and evaluating progress, and removing impediments for teams

Measuring performance through established critical metrics and deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results

Be responsible for end-to-end implementation of the Initiative (e.g. inputs, results, operationalization, etc.)

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

Stock Plan Services (SPS) provides companies with outstanding administration for their equity compensation programs, including stock option, restricted stock, employee stock purchase, stock appreciate and performance plans. SPS Product Development supports the business and technology work streams that deliver against approved initiatives including new products for emerging markets and improvements to existing products.

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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(opens in a new tab), 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.

As a result of COVID-19, many of our associates are continuing to work remotely. When Fidelity employees eventually return to the office, 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(opens in a new tab).” 

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at 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 Leave of Absence/Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations @fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 2.