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Quantitative Finance Marketing Manager - MATLAB

Job Summary

Do you have a passion for financial modeling and analytics for use in risk, algorithmic trading, insurance, investment management, and econometrics?

As Financial Products Marketing Manager you will draw on your business savvy, technical expertise, and collaboration skills to expand the use of MATLAB solutions in these computational finance areas. You will collaborate with marketing, sales, and application engineering teams in go-to-market activities including awareness building, demand generation, sales enablement, and market intelligence.You will also collaborate with development teams and stakeholders to develop product strategy and implement product plans.

Responsibilities

• Working with development teams, develop product plans by collecting and synthesizing customer requirements, use cases, and personas
• Develop annual and long-term marketing plans and a shared vision of success with sales, marketing programs, and relevant product managers.
• Collaborate with industry marketing in defining Financial Services specific problems and market opportunities.  Build content, messaging, and tools that sales and marketing programs can use to capitalize on the opportunities.
• Collect, synthesize and prioritize customer feedback.  Work with product management and development teams in shaping product development plans for data analytics.
• Coordinate outbound messaging, selling materials, and launch activities to ensure a consistent and reinforcing message to drive awareness and adoption across all global locations.  This includes web pages, videos, examples, technical papers, and conferences.
• Evangelize the use of MATLAB for computational finance through conference talks, events, social media, and web channels.
• Identify and prioritize partners and manage these relationships and co-marketing activities.

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and 7 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 5 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree) is required.

Additional Qualifications

• Experience in Computational Finance analysis, modeling, and simulation
• Masters in engineering, mathematics, economics, econometrics or financial engineering
• MATLAB or equivalent programming experience
• Eagerness to work with software development and sales teams in a highly collaborative, consensus-based team environment

Pluses

• Knowledge of MathWorks Computational Finance, Statistics, and Optimization products
• Experience with quantitative modeling, algorithmic trading or risk management
• CFA Institute or GARP certifications
• Experience with Bloomberg, Capital IQ or similar
• Experience in product marketing and/or product management
• MBA