Head of Product, Portfolio Management, Advice and Wealth Management
Vanguard · Dallas, TX · 3 days ago
HybridFinanceFull-time
What you will do
- Product Strategy & Portfolio Leadership
- Define and execute the strategic vision, roadmap, and investment priorities for Portfolio Management products.
- Prioritize investments across product portfolios to balance growth, risk management, operational efficiency, and client experience.
- Establish product roadmaps, KPIs, and success metrics aligned with business and enterprise objectives.
- Lead cross-functional teams responsible for the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of investment platform capabilities.
- Trading, Custody & Operations Enablement
- Partner with trading, operations, and technology teams to optimize trade generation, execution, allocation, reconciliation, and settlement processes.
- Drive initiatives that improve trading capacity, reduce operational risk, and enable efficient portfolio management at scale.
- Identify value-chain constraints and develop strategic solutions that increase automation, resilience, and throughput.
- Ensure platforms support client growth, managed account expansion, and evolving investment offerings.
- Industry Expertise & Vendor Integration
- Provide industry leadership across wealth management, portfolio management, trading, custody, and investment servicing domains.
- Evaluate, select, and integrate strategic vendor solutions to accelerate business outcomes and platform modernization.
- Partner with internal and external stakeholders to deliver seamless integration of best-in-class capabilities.
- Monitor industry trends, competitive offerings, and emerging technologies to inform product strategy and investment decisions.
- Governance & Leadership
- Ensure regulatory, fiduciary, and supervisory requirements are embedded within products and processes.
- Partner with compliance, risk, audit, and technology organizations to maintain strong governance and control practices.
- Lead and develop product managers and product leaders across multiple domains.
- Influence senior leadership decisions regarding platform strategy, technology investments, vendor partnerships, and transformation initiatives.
What it will take
- Deep expertise in wealth management, portfolio management, trading, custody, brokerage operations, or investment servicing.
- Experience leading product organizations responsible for large-scale portfolio management or trading platforms.
- Strong understanding of trade lifecycle management, settlement, reconciliation, custody operations, and money movement.
- Proven success delivering platform modernization, vendor integrations, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
- Knowledge of advisory platforms, managed accounts, portfolio construction methodologies, and investment management workflows.
- Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders and lead cross-functional organizations.