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CRS Product (New York)
Requisition ID: 50703
Business Unit: Fitch Solutions
Category: Operations
Location: New York, NY, US
Date Posted: Sep 30, 2026
CreditSights is currently seeking a Product Owner based out of our New York City office.
CreditSights continues to offer award-winning, unbiased research on global credit markets, empowering clients to make informed investment decisions. With offices in New York, London, Singapore, Glasgow, Denver, and Charlotte, we serve a diverse global institutional client base, including banks, investment advisors, mutual funds, and hedge funds. As a leading voice in credit research, our expert insights are featured in top publications such as Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. As a Fitch Solutions Company, CreditSights provides a dynamic environment fostering professional growth and innovation, where you collaborate with seasoned analysts to deliver critical intelligence in complex financial markets.
Working at CreditSights offers the chance to be part of a premier independent credit research firm, renowned for its in-depth analysis and insights. You’ll collaborate with a team of seasoned analysts, delivering critical intelligence that helps clients navigate complex financial markets. This dynamic environment encourages professional growth and innovation, enabling you to make a meaningful impact in the field of credit research.
About the Team
CreditSights is searching for a Product Owner who will play a crucial role in the development and success of our product offerings. This role involves working closely with the Product Manager and cross‑functional teams to drive the product lifecycle from ideation to launch. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of product management principles, excellent communication skills, and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences.
How You’ll Make an Impact:
Product Development: Assist in the development and execution of the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, design, marketing, and sales teams to ensure successful product delivery.
Backlog Management: Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring that it is up‑to‑date and reflects the current business priorities.
User Stories: Develop detailed user stories and establish acceptance criteria to ensure stories are ready for development.
Agile Ceremonies: Run agile ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Feature Validation: Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to validate that stories meet the definition of done and acceptance criteria.
Customer Interaction: Discuss features with customers, focusing on usability, time to value, feature completeness, and the overall user journey.
Prototyping and Testing: Collaborate with engineering and design to prototype features, conduct A/B testing, and validate designs with end users.
Issue Resolution: Handle issues with current features and provide solutions based on customer feedback.
Performance Monitoring: Track and analyze product performance metrics e.g. team productivity, product adoption, feature performance. This role would focus on collection, analysis, and reporting as well as implementing improvements at the squad level.
You May be a Good Fit if:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Experience: 4+ years of experience in product management, product development, or a related role.
Technical Skills: Familiarity with Agile methodologies, experience with product management tools (e.g.,Jira, Trello), basic understanding of software development, and working knowledge of APIs and how systems integrate. Experience with AI technologies is a plus.
Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to make data‑driven decisions e.g. familiarity with performance metrics like DORA.
Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly.
Team Player: Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, fast‑paced environment.
Customer‑Centric: Passion for understanding and addressing customer needs.
Preferred Experience: Experience in financial information services industry, familiarity with UX/UI principles and design thinking, and experience working with remote teams.
What Would Make You Stand Out:
Preferred Experience: Experience in financial information services industry, familiarity with UX/UI principles and design thinking, and APIs (RESTful services)
MBA is a plus.
Why Choose Fitch:
Hybrid Work Environment: 2 to 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location
A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long‑term goals
Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
Supportive Parenting Policies: Family‑friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
Inclusive Work Environment : A collaborative workplacewhere all voices are valued, withEmployee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community
Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward‑looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interest or any appearance of a conflict of interest.Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.
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FOR NEW YORK ONLY: Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $100,000 and $120,000 per year. Actual salaries will be determined on an individualized basis and may vary based on factors including but not limited to education, training, experience, past performance, and other job‑related factors. Base pay is one part of Fitch’s total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, long‑term incentives, and other benefits sponsored by Fitch.
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