VP, Technology Product Management

Key Responsibilities

Lead the development and implementation of a cross-platform AMS roadmap, with a focus on advisor-facing technology, conducting competitive analysis to anticipate mega-trends and complex challenges and opportunities and ensuring integration with wider corporate strategy.

With strategic partners, set and communicate the AMS strategy, along with the broad actions needed to implement it, for achieving the organization's mission, vision, and values within a function; inspire a large or diverse workforce to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve the organization's business goals.

Provides authoritative specialist advice to the leadership team of a medium-sized international organization to guide the implementation of policy and the design and implementation of projects and change initiatives.

Represents business and technology solutions to advisors and consumers, delivering presentations and gathering feedback to ensure effective adoption and utilization.

Serves as a subject matter expert, presenting to groups of 30–50 advanced users, articulating the strategic direction of the solutions, addressing questions, and incorporating user insights into ongoing improvements.

Identifies the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging business needs of a significant business area. Evaluates current capabilities, identifies gaps, and prioritizes development activities, taking a hands-on approach in the defining and writing of business requirements.

Motivates others to develop their capabilities and fulfill their personal potential. Builds capabilities elsewhere in the organization through mentoring and other informal methods.

Identifies and manages stakeholders up to and including top management level, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.

Skills/Previous Experience

• More than ten (10) years of relevant experience including management or leadership experience is highly preferred.
• Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
• Operates as a recognized expert to shift into and out of a mental mindsets associated with assessing the facts and circumstances of the current situation and/or environment and making the appropriate/innovative adjustments to thinking and work habits to thrive in any scenario.
• Typically known as a subject matter authority.
• Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on strategic planning.
• Applies expertise to act as the organizational authority on making sure the organization develops and maintains the culture, values and design it needs to reach its objectives while managing structural change.
• Uses expertise to act as the organizational authority on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost, time and quality parameters.
• Uses expertise to act as the organizational authority on communicating with other people by speaking in a clear, concise and compelling manner.
• Creates/maintains a competitive organization by attracting, developing, and retaining talent to ensure people with the right skills & motivations are in the right place at the right time to meet business needs.
• Financial services experience required.

Education

• Bachelor’s: Computer and Information Science
• Bachelor’s: Data Science
• Bachelor’s: Information Technology
• High School (HS)

Work Experience

• General Experience - More than 15 years
• Manager Experience - 10 to 15 years