Product Platforms Design Value Stream Lead - FI

S&P Global, Inc.; City of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in London is seeking a Product Platforms Design Value Stream Lead for Fixed Income. This role is responsible for enhancing user experience and operational efficiency across the firm’s fixed income index platforms. The ideal candidate has proven experience in Agile environments, a strong understanding of product lifecycle management, and the ability to lead high-performing teams. The position offers competitive benefits and a collaborative work environment.

Benefits

Health and wellness benefits

Flexible downtime

Learning opportunities

Family-friendly perks

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading product or program delivery within Agile environments.
• Strong product mindset focused on user value, business outcomes, and operational efficiency.
• Demonstrated experience in fixed income, commodities, or private market data products.
• Ability to synthesize complex information and communicate clearly.
• Deep understanding of product lifecycle management and value stream alignment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate a product roadmap for fixed income.
• Manage program backlog and ensure Agile team planning alignment.
• Align teams on priorities, manage dependencies, and focus on outcomes.
• Build and grow a high-performing, collaborative team.
• Engage strategically with partners and stakeholders.
• Monitor progress, validate features, and proactively communicate risks.

Skills

Agile and scaled Agile (SAFe)

Product mindset focused on user value

Stakeholder management

Leadership in building high-performing teams

Design thinking

Data-driven decision-making

Job description

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use): 14

The Role: Product Platforms Design Value Stream Lead – Fixed Income, S&P Dow Jones Indices

The Location: London

The Impact

S&P Dow Jones Indices (SPDJI) serves the financial services industry as a leader in providing indices used for investment products and portfolio benchmarking. Our indices underpin leading Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), exchange-traded derivatives (ETDs), structured products, OTC instruments, and play a crucial role in the investment landscape.

The Team

The Product and Operations team oversees a diverse portfolio of index products—including iconic benchmarks like the S&P 500—setting strategic priorities that drive growth, innovation, and client value across S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Within this organization, the Product Platforms Design team plays a central role in shaping user-centered, scalable product platform experiences that power the full index lifecycle. We are a collaborative, forward-looking team that blends product, design, and technology expertise to deliver intuitive, integrated solutions with measurable business impact.

This role specifically leads the Fixed Income Value Stream, which underpins S&P DJI’s Core Fixed Income, Private Markets, and Commodities franchises. The team partners closely with Product, Technology, and Index Operations to optimize workflows, accelerate product delivery, and enhance transparency across the full equity index lifecycle.

Responsibilities and Impact

The Product Platforms Design Value Stream Lead for Fixed Income is responsible for the delivery of technology-enabled product capabilities that enhance user experience, operational efficiency, and scalability across S&P DJI’s fixed income index platforms. This role is accountable for aligning design and delivery priorities across complex product ecosystems and ensuring that execution reflects the evolving needs of global markets.

Key responsibilities include:

• Roadmap Ownership: Develop and communicate a technology-related product roadmap for fixed income, private markets, and commodities indices grounded in user journeys, operational efficiency, and scalability across all Fixed Income portfolio.
• Execution Leadership: Manage program backlog and MVPs, ensuring alignment with Agile team planning and Definition of Ready/Done.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Align teams on priorities, manage dependencies, and maintain focus on outcomes across regions, asset classes, and systems, while partnering closely with other Value Stream Leads to ensure alignment and coordinated delivery.
• Team Development: Build and grow a high-performing team that thrives on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Stakeholder Management: Engage strategically with partners and senior stakeholders across Product, Index Operations, and Technology to drive alignment, transparency, and timely decision-making.
• Delivery Excellence: Monitor progress, validate features, lead demos, and proactively communicate risks, insights, and business value.

This role has measurable impact on value creation, time-to-market reduction, and adoption of fixed income, private markets and commodities index products—ensuring S&P DJI maintains its leadership position across global equity markets.

What We’re Looking For

Basic Required Qualifications

• Proven experience leading product or program delivery within Agile and scaled Agile (SAFe) environments, including backlog management, and continuous delivery cycles.
• Strong product mindset focused on user value, business outcomes, and operational efficiency.
• Demonstrated experience in fixed income, commodities, or private market data products, preferably within index, or analytics environments.
• Ability to synthesize complex information and create clarity through structured communication.
• Deep understanding of product lifecycle management, prioritization, and value stream alignment.
• Skilled in stakeholder management, planning, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Demonstrated leadership in building, coaching, and enabling high-performing teams.
• Experience applying design thinking and data-driven decision-making to optimize product delivery and adoption.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fixed income market structures, benchmarks, or investment analytics.
• Understanding of enterprise architecture, data workflows, and integration patterns supporting index production and distribution.
• Track record of driving organizational change and embedding Agile practices at scale.
• Global perspective with experience leading teams across multiple regions.

Return to Work

Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return-to-Work initiative, we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply and will actively support your return to the workplace.

What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose: Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People: We’re more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we’re able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

Our Values: Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Benefits: We provide health and wellness, flexible downtime, learning opportunities, retirement and education programs, family-friendly perks, and more. For details, see the country-specific benefits information linked in the original posting.

Equal Opportunity and Compliance

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

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Job ID: 321824 • Posted On: 2025-10-21 • Location: London, United Kingdom