Alpha Chief Product Officer, EVP

State Street•Boston, MA

2d•$300,000 - $412,500

About The Position

State Street is seeking an accomplished product executive to own the integrated product strategy and roadmap across State Street Alpha and its businesses. The role sets priorities and makes investment trade-offs that balance client needs, platform scalability, and long-term growth as Alpha moves to a standardized, product-led platform model. The successful candidate will bring commercial leadership and experience scaling enterprise software and data products in the investment management industry, unifying front-, middle-, and back-office products into a coherent front-to-back offering. The Alpha Chief Product Officer leads the product agenda for Alpha Platform & Software, with accountability for turning State Street’s integrated investment servicing, data, markets, and front-office capabilities into client outcomes, revenue growth, and platform scale. The role leads the full product lifecycle and portfolio governance, collaborates with senior technology, client, delivery, and Charles River leaders, and advances AI and data capabilities. It also leads and scales a global product management organization and represents the product agenda with clients, prospects, regulators, and State Street leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required.
At least 15 years of progressive product leadership experience within enterprise software, financial technology, or asset servicing, including significant executive-level experience.
Demonstrated ownership of a large, multi-product platform portfolio with full lifecycle and commercial accountability.
Direct experience with front-to-back investment operating models, order management and portfolio management systems, investment data platforms, or comparable institutional capabilities.
Proven record of scaling a global product organization and leading product transformation in a complex, regulated environment.
Experience serving on a senior leadership team with board- and executive-level exposure.
Executive presence and credibility with sophisticated institutional clients and senior internal stakeholders.
Decisive prioritization, including the judgment to decline work and sustain a focused roadmap.
Commercial acumen, including P&L orientation, pricing strategy, and revenue accountability.
Ability to lead through a global matrix and build alignment across technology, operations, delivery, and sales.
Collaborative mindset that reduces fragmentation and strengthens ownership of client outcomes.
Strong risk excellence orientation and sound judgment regarding controls, regulatory expectations, and platform resilience.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Own the integrated, multi-year product strategy and roadmap across Alpha and Charles River Development, setting shared priorities across front office, middle office, data, interfaces, and platform.
Make and defend portfolio investment trade-offs, balancing client commitments, platform scalability, technical debt, and long-term growth.
Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle, including strategy, definition, development, release readiness, and commercialization, with measurable KPIs and outcome ownership.
Partner with the Alpha Chief Technology Officer on architecture, engineering quality, modernization, and platform resilience.
Partner with the President & Head of Charles River Development on CRD product innovation and integration into the Alpha platform.
Partner with the Chief Client & Growth Officer and Head of Service Delivery to translate client demand and delivery feedback into roadmap priorities and improve the client experience.
Embed AI and data capabilities across the product set to deliver differentiated client value responsibly and at scale.
Establish product governance, pricing and packaging discipline, and portfolio-wide release readiness standards.
Lead, develop, and scale a global product management organization, including regional product leadership across EMEA, APAC, and Wealth.
Serve on the Alpha Platform & Software leadership team and represent the product agenda with clients, prospects, regulators, and the State Street Operating Group.

Benefits

Retirement savings plan (401(k)) with company match.
Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional coverage.
Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
Employee Assistance Program.
Incentive compensation, including eligibility for annual performance-based awards, with certain sales-role exceptions.
Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
Inclusive development opportunities.
Flexible work-life support.
Paid volunteer days.
Employee networks.