APAC Product Development

Job Description

Prime Services APAC, Product Development Specialist | BNP Paribas

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at BNP Paribas, located in the Asia Pacific region. BNP Paribas Global Markets, the capital-markets arm of its Corporate & Institutional Bank, delivers end-to-end equity, credit, and macro solutions for institutions, corporates, and private banks. This specialist role within Global Equities’ Prime Services is crucial for enriching the platform offering, launching flagship initiatives, and driving the next generation of Prime Services for the region. It ensures the platform evolves in line with market opportunities, client demand, and the regulatory environment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Asia Pacific Region

• Team: Within Global Equities, Prime Services
• Mission: Drive the next generation of Prime Services for the region by enriching the platform offering, launching flagship initiatives, and aligning with evolving market opportunities, client demand, and the regulatory environment.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Product Strategy: Identify and prioritize product enhancements, redesign business processes, and capture formal business requirements, ultimately defining a target operating model.
• Project Execution: Build and maintain comprehensive project plans, ensure adherence to governance standards, track milestone progress diligently, and promptly escalate and resolve emerging problems.
• Analysis & Testing: Conduct thorough end-to-end impact analyses with key stakeholders, meticulously review use cases, drive issue resolution throughout delivery, draft detailed use-case documentation, and lead user-acceptance testing activities.
• Process Improvement: Diagnose existing manual-process and control gaps, propose automated solutions for efficiency, and collaborate effectively with operations and Technology teams to implement these improvements.
• Solution Design: Partner strategically with technology teams and internal desks to shape functional solution designs, while also managing client-specific requests and short-term business-enablement initiatives.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Holds a postgraduate degree in Finance, Engineering, or a related discipline, and possesses solid exposure to the hedge fund ecosystem.
• Experience: 3 to 5 years of experience in the financial services sector, with a proven background or exposure to product management within Prime Services, Inventory Management, and/or Cash Equities.
• Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable engaging with various teams (sales, trading, technology, operations, compliance, client-management) at all organizational levels. Demonstrated ability to be naturally inquisitive, detail-oriented, highly adaptable, collaborative, self-motivated, efficient, well-organized, and capable of driving outcomes autonomously under ambitious deadlines.
• Bonus: Experience in a comparable role supporting product and platform roll-outs across China, Hong Kong, and/or Taiwan.