Middle Office Product Manager, Senior Specialist

Middle Office Product Manager, Senior Specialist

Middle Office Product Manager, Senior Specialist

Are you passionate about developing and enabling Vanguard's digital product strategy of the Fund Ecosystem (Middle Office)? Do you lead with the mindset that emphasizes agility, user-centric design, and continuous improvement, which are essential for navigating the complexities of the asset management industry?

Are you interested in joining a team of digital product managers to help shape the strategic vision and roadmap for digital products that support Middle Office Operations and new technology implementation? If so, we invite you to join us on the journey to establish the newly formed Strategic Enablement organization to enable new capabilities and ways of working by driving integration that cuts across departmental boundaries.

As the Middle Office Product Manager of the VBOR HUB, you will be accountable for advancing the strategy to develop a centralized data hub featuring modern data management and distribution capabilities that fuels the Investment Management decision making & insights, Middle Office operations. This effort is part of our long-term strategy to modernize our technology and optimize our operations across the globe. Your role will involve anticipating challenges and collaborating with Middle Office Senior Leadership team, internal and external stakeholders, and peers within the Investment Management Group, to ensure seamless execution of the long-term strategy.

Responsibilities

• Leads technical product management activities for multiple technical products, or one strategic technical product, with cross-divisional impact. Drives the design and continuous improvement of the technical solution.
• Influences and collaborates with cross-functional teams to create best practices that drive significant change to the client experience. Ensures business outcomes are linked to business case drivers.
• Coaches technical product teams towards best practices and learnings. Oversees product teams' support of the messaging, communication, and customer outreach as necessary.
• Facilitates strong business support through working with team members to promote a consistent approach to decisions/impacts and client propositions. Drives connection across all appropriate internal and external stakeholders.
• Leads the planning, development and implementation of new technical products with cross-divisional impact. Defines and analyzes technical markets, developing detailed product features and requirements, and developing implementation plans.
• Influences and employs a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to continually improve the user experience.
• Participates in and influences ongoing business planning and departmental prioritization activities.
• Drives the team's engineering practices in development, continuous integration, and automated deployment.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Graduate degree preferred.
• Minimum of eight years related business experience. Three years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational projects preferred.

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