Product Portfolio Strategy & Operations Associate

Job Description

Join Post Trade Technology as a Product Portfolio Strategy & Operations Senior Associate and help shape the agenda driving the next chapter of our Markets franchise. You’ll work at the intersection of data, narrative and leadership, synthesizing complex, disparate inputs into clear stories that align senior stakeholders and accelerate the outcomes that will scale our business.

As a Senior Product Portfolio Operations Associate in Post Trade Technology, you are a significant contributor to your team with a strong knowledge of optimization and integration. You understand what it takes to bring together all the key elements of a product line and its products to ensure coordinated outcomes. You play a central role across critical workstreams, bringing structure, content and context to key deliverables and ensuring the division remains outcome-driven at pace.

Job responsibilities

• Creates synergies across products to ensure successful delivery against business objectives.
• Collects key inputs from across products to ensure the full product-line framework highlights our core cross-product priorities, sequencing, and trade-offs.
• Calculates metrics for portfolio management operations and analyzes data for areas of opportunity.
• Develops change initiative materials and change timelines.
• Assists in the product-level collection strategy consisting of controls, financials, and resourcing needs.
• Drive the strategic agenda for Markets Post-Trade Technology in partnership with senior leadership, translate business priorities into a measurable portfolio roadmap advancing platform convergence and rationalization.
• Drive senior-level alignment through disciplined, outcome-based narrative, synthesize complex inputs (technology, operations, risk, architecture, delivery) into concise executive materials that enable decisions and clarify trade-offs.
• Maintains portfolio governance and execution cadence, run decision forums and steerco routines; maintain end-to-end oversight of milestones, interlocks, and critical dependencies across workstreams.
• Maintain transparency and accountability against commitments, track outcome metrics (e.g., KRIs/OKR-style indicators), ensure deliverables remain traceable to business requirements, and produce senior-ready reporting on progress, risks, and actions.
• Drive cross-functional execution in partnership with technology, operations, and business stakeholders, support sequencing, resourcing, and adoption planning from initiation through release and operationalization.
• Drive proactive management of portfolio risks and issues, surface constraints early, coordinate mitigation plans, and escalate with structured options and recommendations.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 3+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in program management or performance optimization.
• Proven ability to implement operational effectiveness initiatives.
• Prior working exposure to operations of the product development life cycle and agile methodologies.
• Strong experience driving technology strategy and portfolio outcomes, translating senior priorities into measurable roadmaps.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication, influencing without authority through clear, outcome-based narrative.
• Experience running governance and execution cadence, including dependency management and senior-ready reporting across complex workstreams.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams on operational readiness and change delivery, from prioritization through operationalization.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, able to synthesize inputs and frame trade-offs across business and technology.
• Demonstrated ability to manage risk, issues, and delivery in changeable environments, operating effectively under pressure.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Contributes to thought leadership by sharing best practices and mentoring peers.
• Experience in financial services or a related industry.
• Exposure to implementing or supporting post-trade workflows in financial services.
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence.

About Us

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

About the Team

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.