Job Description Jefferies is seeking a Senior Vice President (Director level equivalent), who will serve as an innovative senior product manager & strategist responsible for digitizing investing banking. The role will work across investment banking to identify, prioritize, and refine new ideas and capability enhancements with focus on digitizing internal business workflows that enable the firm's client business development, deal execution & business reporting workflows. The role will sit within the investment bank but work closely with the technology organization to help drive and develop long-term and short-term product strategy & roadmap. It is essential for this person to be able to translate what the investment banking management team needs into technology projects that solve across the digital, technology, data & infrastructure ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have experience in business, technology, business insights & reporting as well as demonstrated success in building relationships with both client-facing business stakeholders & technology stakeholders. The ultimate goal is to digitize Jefferies' Investing Banking group by driving more efficiency and improving workflows, leveraging better use of tools, implementing data and analytics capabilities, enabling collaboration and delivering stronger insights and automating product capabilities that generate business insights like revenue forecasts, wallet share & pipeline analysis. The role is part of a niche Digital Strategy team that serves as the 'bridge' between Jefferies' investment banking group and the technology organization. Responsibilities:
- The Digital Products Strategist, Investment Banking will be responsible for the following:
- Influence & contribute to the investment banking business' digital transformation strategy; mobilize commitment, shared vision, and work toward digital transformation.
- Partner with the COO organization (each business group has a COO) to digitize COO workflows, automate business insight generation & partner with subject matter experts to answer questions on Wallet Share & Revenue forecast metrics.
- Form the regional marketing strategy to push adoption of both new and existing products with bankers, business heads, COOs & other IB end-users.
- Contribute to the evolution of the investment banking product vision/strategy & work with technology partners on feature prioritization of the product suite back-log.
- Work with technology product owners and teams to help remediate blockers, test new capabilities, evangelize the products & features, drive hands-on product adoption, marketing & training.
- Validate that new solutions both those built in-house and those available from vendors meet business objectives.
- Challenge the status quo - rationalize, unify, and simplify business processes and design.
- Exhibit a participative leadership style, providing a positive influence on the workforce and investment banking/technology leadership teams.
Qualifications & Experience: The Digital Products Strategist, Investment Banking will have successfully navigated and helped accelerate their respective company with game changing digitally enabled, modernized products. They should have exposure to the Investment Banking businesses either as a team-member, stakeholder, power-user, advisor or consultant. While having a technology background may be a plus, it is not mandatory to have it. This individual must have high IQ and EQ to be viewed as an effective business partner by their respective business peers and across the Jefferies Leadership Team. The capabilities and experiences most critical to success in this role are:
- Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in leading large-scale product strategy, product planning, adoption & rollout initiatives with at least 6 years handling both product strategy & product management.
- Experience managing the product lifecycle from planning using metrics, completion including user demos & rollouts including user engagement, telling the story of where the product is going and where we need participation.
- Experience with building consensus around product feature thinking, working with technology partners to refine a product roadmap aligned to product strategy.
- Business & revenue related reporting products experience more in terms of what it takes to envision & build experiences for senior stakeholders.
- Defines objectives and collaborates with technology partners on roadmaps/timelines to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced hands-on culture.
- Thinks big picture and understands the potential risk/impact of business decisions.
- Must have exceptional time management skills, excellent oral & written communication skills.
- Adept at building strong relationships with the business by helping them understand how technology can be deployed to drive strategic outcomes. Strong influencing skills with the ability to bring people along, and partner with senior stakeholders to drive digital transformation.
- Able to drive action and make clear decisions, leveraging analytics and test & learn. Understands how to recognize and recover quickly from failures, both as an individual and on behalf of the team.
Leadership & Personal Characteristics:
- Beyond experience, the right competencies and personal style are critical to success as a Digital Products Strategist. The ideal candidate will model Jefferies' commitment to integrity, humility, tenacity, transparency, and the excellence that they commit to their customers. They will have a strong corporate stewardship philosophy and leadership style combined with the following:
- Demonstrates a collaborative, engaging, mission-driven style with good listening skills combined with gravitas and self-confidence in order to effectively interact with senior leadership and other key constituencies with humility, empathy, transparency, cultural sensitivity, and agility.
- Champions a culture of high standards, pushes for progress, embraces change and challenges the status quo based on integrity, strong partnership and financial responsibility. Possess uncompromising ethics and unwavering integrity.
- Leads with empathy. Recognizes others, listens intently, holds others accountable, and makes diversity and inclusion a priority. Promotes a culture of trust, transparency, fairness, innovation, collaboration, inclusion, and diversity of thought; empowers individuals.
- Communicates effectively in small and large group formats. Able to articulate a compelling vision and purpose that excites the team and drives outstanding performance and service delivery excellence.
- Possesses a high level of intellectual curiosity and learning agility. A natural change agent with a combination of vision and execution skills.
- Understands nuance and how to drive change through influence across a complex, global business. Superb stakeholder management and comfortable operating in a fast-changing environment.
- Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and thrives in collegial and team-oriented environments.
The Salary Range for this position is $250,000-$275,000 Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (''Jefferies,'' ''we,'' ''us'' or ''our'') is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia. At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients. Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law. All employees must follow Jefferies' COVID-19 protocol policy, which is subject to change. About Us Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (''Jefferies,'' ''we,'' ''us'' or ''our'') is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia. At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients. Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse workforce and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply. This includes applicants from historically underrepresented groups, including women, racial and ethnic minorities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, military veterans, and individuals with disabilities or who are neurodiverse. Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law. All employees must follow Jefferies' COVID-19 protocol policy, which is subject to change.