Wealth Management, Product Development, Vice President
Job Description:
This is a Vice President role focused on product development and management. The Product Development team is responsible for launching and managing fee based, advisory products for distribution across four distinct US distribution channels. These investments, whether proprietary or managed by third parties, include Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs), Mutual Funds (MFs), and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) across all asset classes. In addition, the team is responsible for managing the product lifecycle across these programs and driving key strategic changes to streamline offerings across the channels. This Product role will require strong expertise across all asset classes, especially fixed income, as well as the ability to build trusted relationships with key stakeholders, and the capability to influence across various organizational levels to achieve our strategic objectives.
Job Responsibilities:
- Partner with leaders across the company on designing and structuring new innovative offerings or enhance existing capabilities to ensure the best solutions are offered to our customers
- Independently lead product launches or changes collaborating across the investment management, business channels, trading, legal, compliance, risk, finance, tax, operations and technology teams
- Provide subject matter expertise on our offerings throughout the organization, assisting in addressing complex requests and representing these offerings in committees and forums
- Lead efforts to consolidate products, streamlining the offering to clients to optimize resource use and focus on areas of revenue and asset growth
- Provide ongoing product support and coordinate across business lines to ensure a unified client experience for new launches and the implementation of key program changes, both tactically and strategically
Required qualifications, skills, and capabilities:
- 8 years of experience in financial services, preferably with product experience in wealth management, asset management, investment banking, or consulting.
- Experience with investment products and asset classes, especially fixed income, and multi-asset class solutions
- Proven track record in designing new investment products and successfully launching new channels, programs, or products to the market while aligning critical dependencies
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in both written and verbal forms, and to logically present complex concepts to key partners and senior leaders
- Team-oriented with a demonstrated ability to work and influence effectively with individuals and larger groups from different functional areas and varying seniority
- Analytical and data-driven, with exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking skills to find innovative solutions to complex business problems.
- Proactive communicator with a self-starter mentality
Preffered qualifications, skills, and capabilities:
- Advanced degree , alongside industry certifications and accreditations (CFA, CAIA, CFP, etc.)