Head of Global Product & Delivery Planning

This is an opportunity to lead a critical product planning and ecosystem-shaping function at Vanguard, a firm committed to taking a stand for all investors, treating them fairly, and giving them the best chance for investment success. Vanguard depends on disciplined, forward-looking product planning and strong ecosystem capacity to translate strategy into a scalable product agenda.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of product planning and strategy leaders, hiring, evaluating, coaching, and developing talent while elevating strategic capability, investment acumen, and organizational impact.
• Own and refresh Vanguard’s long-term product and delivery plan, including a multi-year view of product priorities grounded in client needs, strategic value, market evolution, and enterprise capacity.
• Develop and implement a more quantitative and repeatable approach to assessing product value, including factors such as expected revenue uplift, contribution to investment outcomes, competitive relevance, innovation alignment, and client demand.
• Lead the planning and improvement of Vanguard’s product ecosystem by identifying bottlenecks, dependencies, and structural constraints across shared services partners, including technology, operations, legal, implementation, and trading.
• Build and drive a capacity management model that aligns shared services capabilities and resources to real-time and long-term product priorities, including scenario planning for increased development volume and complexity.
• Partner with shared services leaders to define, prioritize, and execute process and capacity improvements that increase throughput, reduce friction, and improve delivery health across the ecosystem.
• Serve as a senior thought partner to PRD and enterprise leaders on future product development, prioritization tradeoffs, implementation readiness, and the long-term health of the product ecosystem.
• Maintain strong knowledge of industry, market, competitive, and company trends, and translate those insights into planning priorities and innovation opportunities.
• Lead special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Ten years of experience in financial strategy consulting, product development, product management, product planning, or a related field.
• Five years of supervisory experience.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and cross-functional leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to lead through complexity and influence without relying solely on formal authority.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior leaders, investment partners, and shared services stakeholders across a large, matrixed organization.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required.
• MBA preferred.

Skills

• Strategic and systems-oriented leader who connects long-term product ambition to practical delivery realities.
• Strong people leader who develops talent, elevates the standard, and builds organizational capability.
• High-judgment decision-maker who balances strategic value, client needs, capacity, execution, and risk.
• Trusted cross-functional partner who builds credibility quickly and leads through influence across a complex ecosystem.
• Clear, concise communicator who can engage senior leaders and drive alignment across competing priorities and tradeoffs.
• Improvement-minded operator who can identify bottlenecks, scale capacity, and strengthen ecosystem performance over time.
• Enterprise-oriented leader who can move between product strategy and delivery planning with equal fluency.
• Resilient, adaptable leader who is comfortable operating through ambiguity, complexity, and change.

Special Factors

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission. To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.