Squad Leader, Stock Plan Services Mainframe
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Location: Boston, MA 02115
Description:
Job Description:
The Role
As a Stock Plan Services (SPS) Mainframe Squad Leader, you blend Stock Plan expertise with a passion for delivering results. In an agile format and structure, you will partner with other leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions and roadmaps, define the resource requirements, set the mission, and bring the squad together to execute on specific results and ensure respective products or services are available, stable, performant, and supported when required and related cost and maintenance is managed. You will ensure alignment on the 'what' and 'when' of the work performed by the squad through ongoing planning and prioritization, to enable the squad to work iteratively, innovate when appropriate, celebrate successes, and learn from failures. You will also be committed to maintaining and developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role. This Squad Lead will also play a primary role in helping define and drive the SPS Mainframe strategy as we progress along our modernization journey.
You will work in partnership with the Product Area Leader, team members, and chapter leaders. By role modeling and promoting agile and Fidelity leadership principles, you will promote and sustain an innovative agile culture.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
The Team
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.
The base salary range for this position is $100,000-$169,000 per year.
Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate's relevant experience, and other factors.
Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.
We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career. Note, the application window closes when the position is filled or unposted.
Please be advised that Fidelity's business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.
Fidelity's hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
Certifications:
Category:
Product Management
The Role
As a Stock Plan Services (SPS) Mainframe Squad Leader, you blend Stock Plan expertise with a passion for delivering results. In an agile format and structure, you will partner with other leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions and roadmaps, define the resource requirements, set the mission, and bring the squad together to execute on specific results and ensure respective products or services are available, stable, performant, and supported when required and related cost and maintenance is managed. You will ensure alignment on the 'what' and 'when' of the work performed by the squad through ongoing planning and prioritization, to enable the squad to work iteratively, innovate when appropriate, celebrate successes, and learn from failures. You will also be committed to maintaining and developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role. This Squad Lead will also play a primary role in helping define and drive the SPS Mainframe strategy as we progress along our modernization journey.
You will work in partnership with the Product Area Leader, team members, and chapter leaders. By role modeling and promoting agile and Fidelity leadership principles, you will promote and sustain an innovative agile culture.
- Defining, refining, and communicating your team's mission to squad members and business partners to empower and rally support
- Anticipating, discovering, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as the voice of the clients and guide execution of the squad
- Measuring performance through established critical metrics and deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results
- Inspecting and evaluating progress, and removing impediments for your squad
- Defining, presenting, and evaluating results against agreed acceptance criteria
- Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- 5 - 10 years of related product management experience, systems development, product development, and/or project/product management
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- Financial services experience preferred
- Agile experience preferred
- Experience with platform modernization preferred
- You take a data-driven approach to understanding client needs, you translate strategic goals into action, and prioritize to maximize value delivered
- Experience defining a large scale strategy and helping lead teams through change
- You have a continuous improvement approach
- You are energized by working collaboratively to deliver agreed business outcomes, drawing on the expertise of colleagues to inform 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 a culture of learning and coaching
The Team
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.
The base salary range for this position is $100,000-$169,000 per year.
Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate's relevant experience, and other factors.
Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.
We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career. Note, the application window closes when the position is filled or unposted.
Please be advised that Fidelity's business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.
Fidelity's hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
Certifications:
Category:
Product Management