AVP, Product Owner

About the role

LPL Financial is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Product Owner to lead the strategic vision for fraud-prevention and detection products.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain the strategic vision for fraud-prevention and detection products in partnership with senior stakeholders in Fraud, Risk, Cybersecurity, and the business.
• Lead end-to-end product lifecycle strategy, from ideation through execution, ensuring alignment with enterprise fraud and risk objectives.
• Partner with the Product Manager to define multi-year roadmaps, key capabilities, and investments needed to modernize LPL's fraud ecosystem.
• Break down strategic initiatives into actionable epics and user stories, prioritizing the backlog based on fraud risk, enterprise value, operational impact, and technical dependencies.
• Serve as the primary voice of the product for business leaders, ensuring clarity, alignment, and consistent communication of priorities, progress, risks, and decisions.
• Drive cross-organizational collaboration across Fraud Operations, Technology, Data Science, Cybersecurity, and other partners, ensuring seamless execution of complex fraud initiatives.
• Monitor fraud trends, emerging threats, and technology advancements to influence proactive enhancements and innovation.
• Collaborate with Technology teams to define acceptance criteria, delivery expectations, and quality standards.
• Represent the product and the Scrum Team in cross-program, cross-product, and enterprise planning discussions.
• Advocate for technical enablers and platform enhancements necessary to support long-term fraud-prevention strategy.
• Maintain product KPIs and reporting, including loss avoidance, detection accuracy, operational efficiency, and client-experience metrics.
• Contribute to annual planning, budgeting, and prioritization for fraud technology and operational improvements.
• Coordinate and track interdependent fraud initiatives across the enterprise to ensure alignment and cohesive risk-mitigation strategy.

Requirements

• 4-7+ years of experience in product management/ownership within the financial services space.
• 3-5+ years of experience in fraud operations, fraud analytics, or Anti-Money Laundering (AML).
• Experience with fraud-mitigation platforms, case-management systems, rule engines, risk-scoring tools, or machine-learning-driven fraud models.

Core Competencies

• Strong understanding of fraud types, including account takeover, identity theft, ACH/wire fraud, money movement fraud, check fraud, application fraud, and scams.
• Deep knowledge of Agile methods, product lifecycle management, and delivery best practices.
• Ability to lead in high-stakes, fast-moving environments involving real-time risk and operational dependencies.
• Demonstrated success influencing senior leaders and driving outcomes across cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex fraud-risk concepts into clear business and technical requirements.
• Strong analytical mindset and the ability to assess tradeoffs among cost, performance, risk, and timeline.
• Prior proven ability to transform fraud-risk strategies into scalable product capabilities.