JOB BOARD: Product Manager, Corporate Services, E*Trade, Alpharetta, GA or Menlo, CA

POSITION: Product Manager
DEPARTMENT: Corporate Services - Product Management
LOCATION: GA-Alpharetta or Menlo, CA
TYPE: Full-Time, Permanent Hire

Please contact Rhonda Williams at rhonda.williams@etrade.com or 678-319-7028

Overview
E*TRADE Corporate Services provides equity compensation services to over 1200 corporate clients and over 1 million plan participants. The Product Manager is responsible for defining and documenting requirements for a variety of equity compensation plan-related products and services used by our corporate clients and their plan participants, with a specific focus on the equity compensation administration system.
Position Summary
E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corporate Services is seeking a professional experienced in product development to fill the role of Product Manager in its Product Management team. This job entails end-to-end responsibility of the product development lifecycle for equity compensation related products. The position will primarily be focused on accounting, tax and reporting projects that impact our equity plan-related products and services.

This role requires a combination of strategic and tactical problem solving, coupled with strong execution capability. The successful candidate will be an experienced self-starter and have excellent project management skills, with a proven track record of achieving success in a fast-paced, results-driven organization.

Position Objectives
• Demonstrate strong product development functional knowledge, including an in-depth understanding of the processes, tools and techniques essential to delivering projects on-time and within budget.
• Help drive product development strategy for equity compensation product features related to accounting, tax or reporting.
• Acquire intimate domain knowledge of existing Corporate Services products and services, becoming a subject matter expert with respect to current and anticipated functionality, workflows and integration points with other E*TRADE systems.
• Identify and analyze functional deficiencies in our current reporting feature product offering, and recommend corrective actions.
• Translate analysis into functional requirements documentation for existing and future Corporate Services applications.
• Partner closely with a wide range of stakeholders - including Product Planning, Operations, Customer Service, Marketing, Technology and Quality Assurance - to ensure that product design and implementation accurately reflect the full range of market, business and functional requirements.
• Use judgment and analysis to help prioritize areas for product enhancement.
• Serve as a mentor and coach to junior team members and support the Finance Segment Leader with day-to-day team and project management tasks.

Qualifications
Minimum/Required
• 4+ years of demonstrated experience and success in accounting, finance, or business analysis, including writing detailed requirements documentation.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Management Information Systems, or equivalent.
• Strong ability to plan and manage multiple projects in parallel.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills with peers, clients and leadership.
• Combination of strong analytical and documentation skills, ability to think strategically, and deep client focus; highly quality minded.
• Capability to understand and document accounting and/or tax guidance.
• Effective team collaboration and influencing skills.
• Solid understanding of product development life-cycle.
• Ability to work effectively within a team of product managers and cross-functionally with multiple business and technology stakeholders.
Preferred
• Equity compensation experience is a plus.
• Accounting experience regarding ASC 718 (FAS 123R) or IFRS 2 is a plus.
• Knowledge of Oracle databases/reporting database design theory.
• Equity plan management and corporate services experience.
• CEPI certification or willingness to achieve level 1 CEP designation.